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What happened to UPS?

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I’ll admit that I was a little late ordering my Christmas presents.  A) I’m not a Christian, and B) The whole “consumer’s Christmas” schtick is a little nauseating.  Still, not to be a total grinch and to help stave off the inevitable collapse of our economy, I ordered some crap.  Call it peer [...]

Obama: The New Great Compromiser

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Sorry, I can’t help myself.  Don’t read this.  Stop right now.

You’re still reading.  Stop.  It’s just my own political whining.

Fine.  Whatever.  Read.  I don’t care.

Remember Henry Clay?  No?  JFK said he was one of the five greatest senators of all time.  Why?  Compromise.  Lincoln (a senator from Illinois, no less) [...]

Is Lying Required in Politics? or Et tu Obamay?

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WARNING: This has nothing whatsoever to do with gardens, food, or chickens.

I’ve been an Obama supporter from early on.  I was impressed with his willingness to step up in his first term to oppose the war and stick to that position.  I was impressed when he started actually making nuanced statements about [...]

Fireworks Stink

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Happy 4th.  I hate fireworks.  They’re dangerous, noisy, polluting, and everyone’s already seen them.  Sorry.  If that makes me a “humbug,” so be it.  Why is it OK to scare everyone’s dog, keep their kids awake, and contaminate our air and water as a sign of… not wanting to be British anymore?  Tonight, [...]

Notes from an unenlightened gardener.

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Alan Watts said something to the effect that you don’t go to a symphony to hear the finale.

Gardening just for the tomato or raising chickens just for the eggs is kinda like that.

The perfect tomato will be so for, maybe, one day.  Shortly thereafter it’ll either get flushed down the toilet [...]