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 […]
Yesterday was the “Gathering” to say goodbye to our friend Don, who died Feb. 3 at 95 years of age. Don was our across-the-street neighbor for many years, until the old-people’s carriage, an ambulance, took him to the hospital in the Fall of 2021. He didn’t come home, but led the rest of his long […]
This is a note to the 75 million voters. for Harris/Walz on Nov. 5, and to the many others who now wish they had. There are endless ways to peacefully and affirmatively act in solidarity. Carol sent an idea on Feb. 10, which follows: You probably all know that Cliff and I were married in […]
Earlier today came the announcement that the production of the penny may be ended. Some details are in this PBS report. It’s no news that it costs more to make a penny, than the penny is worth. I don’t know about you, but if I see a penny on the ground, I don’t expend a […]