Atticus
Atticus's JournalNote to Tucker Carlson: "Honore de Balzac" is the name of a French author and playwright. It
is NOT French for "Honor the Ballsack".
Kill the red-light nonsense, ok?
I don't recall where I read this and this is not an exact quote, but it went something like:
"We will know our government has its priorities right when education gets all the money it needs and the Pentagon has to have many bake-sales if it wants a new aircraft carrier".
When I've gone I will wonder if you are happy and loved.
And I will wonder if you know how much I love you still
And if you might remember a smile or two we shared.
Just maybe I will know.
The Russian soldiers being promoted to replace their dead officers and promised all sorts of future
benefits---power, wealth, fame---should understand that four unsaid words are implicit in those promises: "IF THERE'S A RUSSIA!"
If there is no Russia, they may still gain fame---as defendants in a war crimes trial.
What I learned about evergreens and deer.
During winter months, deer will browse heavily on white pine seedlings but ignore same-size spruce trees planted 10 feet away.
I don't know if their preference has to do with differences in taste or texture, but close to half the white pines I tucked in last year were nibbled to death, but none of the spruces were lost to deer.
Just something to consider if you are thinking of planting an evergreen screen in deer country.
In American politics, there should be no such thing as "dark money"---period.
Every little niche statute or code provision that permits ANY interest--- public, private, individual, corporate or whatever---to anonymously contribute to a candidate or a party or a group, however named, that seeks to influence the outcome of an election should be repealed.
Any interested US citizen should be able to easily determine the source of every dollar spent on behalf of or in opposition to every candidate in each election.
Anything less is granting permission to the moneyed to rule the many.
What have Republicans got against cardiac resynchronization therapy?
It is a valuable treatment alternative for people with irregular heartbeats and any attempt to prohibit it should be strongly opposed! My brother-in-law has a CRT pacemaker and be is thankful it was available.
These laws prohibiting CRT should be------wut?---------oh-------.
Never mind.
Just watched the trailer for Tucker Carlson's "The End of Men". First, I laughed and then
I threw up a little in my mouth.
Tucker is concerned that men today do not have enough testosterone. His film communicates this by showing nude or semi-nude male hunks exercising, bathing and, apparently, getting their crotch "recharged" from a glowing appliance of some sort!
I wish I was kidding.
The very thought that Tucker is some sort of authority on "what makes a man" is beyond silly.
As the trout illies and spring beauties peak, the red buds are just beginning to show color while
the backyard magnolia blossoms are spent for another year. The forsythias are dropping their yellow flowers onto the soggy ground and dogwoods, red buckeyes and lilacs are still "coming attractions".
In the part of the meadow we have claimed for our lawn, smaller even than the three inch tall spring beauties, are literally thousands of what I can only call "micro-blooms"---matchhead size four-petaled flowers that range from blue to pink to white. The temporary carpet colors the sod beneath blooming peach, cherry, plum and apricot trees.
The edge of the hardwoods teems with the regal trout lillies and the make-me-smile dutchman's breeches nodding under wild sloes in bloom.
Why am I pointing out all of this? It's my way of taking inventory of beauty that might go unseen or taken for granted as I prepare to spend the day outside where spring is taking place.
Later.
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