Diaries
Joe Ben
Submitted by hecate on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 8:01pmThe other night I met a woman who worked to bring all her animals out of the fire. Seven dogs, ten chickens, twenty adult cats, three litters of kittens. She made it out with all but the chickens. Who will now be a Mr. Bojangles loss. As are all the animals who pass. For all those. Who can feel them.
House opens Obstruction of Justice Hearing, featuring convicted obstructor John Dean
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 7:53pmIn this stranger than fiction world we are witnessing awesome (in the original sense of inspiring awe) incursions into Fantasy and Science Fiction. Leaving man-made climate change aside (the potentially science fiction part aside), the obvious fantasies (plural) on the part of the hearing witnesses (save one) and many congress critters on each side of illusory aisle who claim that "Russia meddled in our election". As if the US of A doesn't meddle anywhere and everywhere.
Progressive insurgency in the Democratic Party keeps growing
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 4:45pmSure, I know most of you have completely given up on the Dems.
Nevertheless, it's still a good thing by anyone's measure to see the Democratic establishment forced to have to publicly fight it's own base's demands for reform.
The Evening Blues - 6-10-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 2:02pm
U.S. promises to meddle in British election
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 12:33pmWe are told that American elections are "sacred". Everyone else can go suck it. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made that clear the other day.
Monday Open Thread: June 10 is Ballpoint Pen Day, Portugal Day & La Rioja Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/10/2019 - 5:00am
June 10 is the 161st day of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, Confusion 15, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.10.2 by the Mayan Long Count
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Trump Rebrands Globalism
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 11:45pm
If there is one skill that Trump is exceptional at, it is branding. Trump knows that he can serve the global elites best in these anti-establishment days by rebranding globalism.
Vesuvius
Submitted by hecate on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 6:06pmShe is increasingly irritated and angry, she says, about feeling irritated and angry. She knows it’s a trauma thing. From the fire. But it won’t stop. Everywhere, she is simmering like Vesuvius. And sometimes, she blows. Like, when she is driving the vehicle, and she needs to be getting somewhere, but there are people who won’t get out of the way; then, she says, I can probably hear her cursing, even without the phone, just through the air. Well, maybe. Except it’s hard to hear even a nuclear explosion. Through the jackhammers.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 7:16am
Preservation
At my age it is a complement to be called well preserved (I guess). But we talked health and diet a couple of weeks ago. Let's talk food preservation this week. It is time to think about saving garden produce. Even if you don't have a garden, you can make use of your local farmers' market. This time of year (in the Northern hemisphere) produce is less expensive and more nutritious, and if you grow your own, you know that vegetable production can be excessive at harvest time....from feast to famine. So save during the feast and have something to avoid the famine.
