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Monthly Archives: August 2023

Some recent eats

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Egg foo yung with stir-fried sweet-potato leaves I buy good eggs from pastured chickens and then forget that I have eggs. I think it’s because I’m so content on a plants-only diet, until I start to worry that I might not be getting enough B-12. Then I remember how good egg foo yung can be. […]

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Now let’s stop being afraid of them

Friday, August 25, 2023

A malignant narcissist’s last resort: If you won’t adore me, at least be afraid of me. Politically, they are doomed. The very devil would have to intervene with some sort of devil-miracle to prevent a wipeout of Republicans in the 2024 elections. Not only are Trump and his operatives politically doomed, their lives are over. […]

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Yep … I’m in the woods

Monday, August 21, 2023

A drone 235 feet directly above the abbey. Click here for high resolution version. I’ve been interested in photography drones for a long time. But only recently did drones become halfway affordable. Smaller and smaller computer chips, improvements in battery technology, and smaller and better cameras have made it possible to build drones that weigh […]

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Will we finally get a Trump mug shot?

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Source: Wikimedia Commons A big problem with posting about current events is that it’s almost impossible to find photographs that are in the public domain. For a long time now, the world has been waiting for a criminal indictment of Donald Trump that comes with a mug shot. Police mug shots are public record and […]

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Scapegoats 2, Republicans 0

Sunday, August 13, 2023

The political death wish of the Republican Party is mind-boggling. Why do they go on fighting battles that they’ve already lost and that accelerate their slide toward permanent minority status and the contempt of history? — at least, in civilized places as opposed to places such as Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. Banning books, and threatening […]

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Oxford India paper

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Click here for high resolution version. Once again, unable to find any newer fiction that interested me, I’m reading another Sir Walter Scott. It’s The Fortunes of Nigel, and I believe this will be the eighth or ninth Walter Scott that I’ve read. Though Scott’s works are available at Gutenberg and can be read on […]

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To heck with the news. Let’s talk about food.

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Barley biscuits with pinto beans, okra-tomato sauté, and green beans. Click here for high resolution version. The news is exasperating. Even as Trump makes madman threats, including threatening people such as Mike Pence, who is sure to be a witness at Trump’s trials, the media are doubling down on the horsewash idea that Smith won’t […]

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