December 29, 2025

Has anyone heard from Mousetoescamper?

I don’t see anything since mid-October. I get worried.

August 19, 2025

I killed a bird with my car just now

I stopped and picked it up, hoping it might just be stunned. I don’t even know what kind it was, maybe an eastern wood pee-wee. I feel awful.

June 15, 2025

Fortunate Son

Epic trolling, if true. The word is they had the troops in DC marching to CCR’s Fortunate Son. A medal for the guy who got that one in the mix. Epic.

May 9, 2025

Social Security madness

What a difference a week makes.

Last week I had a great conversation with someone at Social Security to finalize my application for benefits, according to an appointment for a phone call I had been given at my in-person visit to the local office. She was helpful and positive and went through all my details of employment history, including that I was applying under the new (Biden-era) end of the windfall elimination provision. Hurray, I was eligible.

Amazingly, my retroactive payment was credited to my account this week.

Then I got the paper confirmation, and there’s an error in it that makes the whole application invalid, maybe even appearing fraudulent. It specifies that I state I have no other pension income, which I do, which is why I had not applied for SS before the WEP repeal. The agent I spoke to understood that.

So I go to the SS page to check my account information. I can’t access the account using my new password because it says it’s only accepting logins created after 2021?

So I am going to sequester all payments until I can clear this up of course, and be very grateful I can do that.

What does this mean for everyone else?

March 10, 2025

Al Stewart

I am listening to his Roads to Moscow. It seems so poignant and apt right now. Can anyone here find it and post it? I need to step up my skills, but right now I would really just like to share it.

February 4, 2025

Cowards die a thousand times

Heroes die but once

Our local (Augusta, Maine) Democratic Party has just canceled tomorrow’s rally at the State House because of unspecified infiltration and threats.

This is caving in advance and unworthy of us. Warn us, yes, but to call it off is in my opinion craven and wrong.

So I need a sign…

February 3, 2025

Will there be a march in Augusta Wednesday?

I don’t know who to contact about it. Anybody know anything?

January 27, 2025

A good site in Texas

https://juanitajean.com/

I am sorry I failed to recommend this site before. It has been invaluable to me. There’s a lovely Molly Ivins echo in the posts written by Juanitajeanherownself, if you care to access the older entries. Susan Bankston, whose son Mark successfully represented the Sandy Hook families in their suit against the unmentionable evil, is the founder, and has, I believe, retired.

November 7, 2024

Lightning should strike on January 21st

Can you imagine anyone taking seriously his oath to uphold the Constitution?

I fantasize something like one of those Israeli pagers - but just a small incendiary device - tucked in the chinese-printed “bible” bursting into a little flame as he perjures himself again.

November 6, 2024

Solidarity

I was driving to the coast thinking some sand and waves might help. I passed a car stopped by the road, near a woman in her late 70s maybe collecting Harris signs. I impulsively pulled over and ran to her and said “May I have hug?” She immediately gave me a warm sweet hug without a word. Then said, tears on her cheeks, ”This is the end of our country. This is the end of democracy. It’s the end of everything.” I mumbled helpless attempts at comfort and then left. Bless this soul for hugging a stranger. I wish I could have comforted her.

The sand and sea really didn’t do their usual. I remain gutted. I so wanted to be happy today.

But we will regroup and fight. We have no choice.