PRENOTE: Most of this post was written before the forced evacuation of the Department of Education. I knew no details. At some point I will file a second, dated, postnote. * Today began the ritual “killing” of the U.S. Department of Education, established as a separate department of the Government in 1980, and now 65 […]
This has been a very long week. I want to give a prelude to my own summary, by offering some observations by Garrison Keillor, who I first became acquainted with in 1977. Keillor’s two most recent columns are here and here. I have a long affinity for Keillor’s work, beginning with the first time I […]
Today was day 45 of the first 100 days…. The dump has just begun. The perpetrators can say, “don’t blame us. You were warned”. But the first reaction is like being dumped on by an avalanche, or mud slide, or hit by a tsunami, earthquake or wildfire. Until it happens, you don’t really expect it, […]
10:40 p.m. March 4, 2025: I watched it all, near two hours, of #47’s speech to Congress; and then the approximately 10 minute Democrat response of Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. There is nothing new in the President’s script. Sen. Slatkin’s response is on-line here, take the time to watch and listen, and especially make […]
Yesterday I planned to participate in the 24 hour vacation from American commerce. I thought (and think) it a good idea, and publicized at least twice the ideas (listed in Feb 24 and 28 posts). It’s now a day later and time for my personal report. My wife would attest, I think, that if the […]
Today is a suggested action day in the U.S. There are many suggestions. I’ll repost one I’ve received from a couple of directions at the end. I plan to follow through with doing no business on Friday, period. Every little bit…. On other fronts, for the weekend: There have been several interesting comments to the […]
Please see POSTNOTE at end of today’s post. Overnight Heather Cox Richardson summarizes Feb. 24, here. * Today [Feb 24] marks three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. I did a post about this Feb 16, 2022 – a Wednesday. Friday of that week I was in surgery at UofM Hospital (colon) and on the day […]
By my count, today is day 32 of the first 100 days of what more and more seems like an attempted bloodless coup d’etat. I am simply one of the peasants wondering what to do – if I can do anything. I can’t sit idly by. There are at least 75,000,000 of us that did […]
A reminder of the responsibility of being part of a Democracy. Last week came one of those outsized don’t ignore envelopes, including a return address that I recognized – a statewide group I’ve been a member of for years, though never really been active within it. Inside the large envelope were two other envelopes, one […]
Feb. 12 was Abe Lincoln’s birthday, and Feb 17 is the official President’s Day this year, and George Washington’s Birthday is the 17th and Valentine’s Day is today. So it goes, Happy All of Them to Everybody. Here’s Wikipedia’s interesting recitation on Presidents Day. The cards, as usual, are from the Busch farm trove […]