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Our national hemorrhoid will be razzling and dazzling Xi Jinping this afternoon.  Will Trump opt for diplomatic kneepads or go all in for a bare-naked suck up.  No doubt there will be a tour of the national ball-hole.  And maybe Xi will be impressed by landing in the backyard and using the service entrance.   No one's seen anything like it ever before.  Hopefully we won't see anything like it...

Yesterday was Mabon.  The first day of fall - the Autumnal Equinox.  Cool fresh air with a slight nip in the air - the smell of apples and falling leaves.... My favorite season of the year.  My feast consisted of apple chutney over pork chops, roasted potatoes with apple cider vinegar, carrots, apple fritter bread, leaf shaped cookies, pumpkin spice cookies, frosted spice cookies and apple...

came across these tweets: “Black folks are being found hanged in America. This is a national crisis and we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country. We're demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings. This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S. I’m proud to have signed onto...

Another year has passed and another anniversary has been enjoyed.  We spent a glorious week in the small lakeside town of Skaneateles.  We had a nice little boutique hotel (no kids allowed).  It was comfortable and on a side street, so no street noise.  It was in walking distance of the shops and restaurants.  My anniversary morning began with a mimosa at a lovely little diner (Clovers).  My...

I have not added any feasts for awhile, so I thought I would share my feats from August 1st.  It was Lughnasadh.  It is the first harvest feast.    It honors the Celtic god, Lugh.   It is a celebration of the the first harvest (early crops), community gatherings and athletic games. The food is grain based (breads, cobbler etc), berries and early garden items such as zucchini, summer squash and...

Americans, as a nation, can't seem to do anything without a scapegoat. We remain paralyzed until we can rally around blame, accusations, and pious outrage. In modern politics, a common whipping boy unifies far more than a shared vision. Both major parties routinely point fingers at each other, yet both have adopted so many litmus tests and purity check-boxes that they’ve fractured into...

Welcome to Coffee Break .  Come on in, take a break, and be sociable.  Pull up a chair for chit chat, water cooler gossip, and coffee klatsch philosophizing. Sports, fashion, cars, food, hunting, Hollywood gossip, funky science, odd events, high tech, low tech, no tech, and Big Foot are topics that would fit right in.  There's a whole world of things to discuss that don't include politics,...

Anticipation for the upcoming election is rapidly building.  In just two or three weeks, the pace of the campaigns will become frenetic.  The first "AI slop" election may prove entertaining as well as deeply annoying.  We've come into the season for the biannual tradition of hearing the all-important opinion of the "man on the street." Pundits, pollsters, and political hacks are dying to hear...

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Our English friends are demonstrating just some of the benefits mass immigration can bring.  In the north of Ireland,  There has been widespread condemnation after a bonfire with a replica mosque on top was lit before police could remove it. The replica, which appeared on the bonfire in Moygashel, County Tyrone, has been described as a "horrible racist display" and as "sowing hate"....

NAZI tattoo?  Acceptable. Spreading conspiracy theories about Jews?=Acceptable Admitting he joined the Army because he wanted to kill people= Acceptable! Admitting he wants to rape men who enter his house? =Acceptable! Posting about how he wanted wounded American soldiers to die? =Acceptable! Training domestic terrorists to use guns?= Acceptable Hanging out sites called havens for child...

June 20, 2026 It was a gorgeous day. It was recently very rainy, for several weeks. Rainy enough to kill my spring peas and make everything else struggle. I wasn't able to hoe much from about mid May until just a few days ago, and the garden filled up with weeds. I've been working on them, and they're almost gone now.  I know the surface looks dry from all the hoeing (sun baked...