(Accessories available for the Bushmaster AR-15 similar to the one carried by the shooter in the Sandy Hook shootings. Barrels under 15” require approval by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and are not legal in all states. Photo Bushmaster.com) I wonder what is going to happen in the wake of the tragedy at […]

(Here is the seasonal display on the front door to Refuge Farm. Photo Socotra.) I am down at the Farm, and slept well in the new bed, thank-you very kindly. I should have dreamed, and I did not, thank God. I had arrived in full darkness, not surprising for this time of the year I […]

(Video capture of the response to the shootings at Newtown. Image courtesy of Fox17.) We were sitting at the Amen Corner at Willow. It was a Friday that had not gone that well. The Budget Cliff had everyone a little jumpy, and the awful news was the only thing that could push that into the […]

I am not going to do it to you this morning. I am not going to talk about Detroit going bust, or the wild closing of the legislative session in Lansing, or anything like that. We have got enough trouble right here in River City, and I don’t even want to do that. You can’t […]

(President Warren G. Harding. A conservative politician from Ohio, Harding had few enemies because he rarely took a firm enough stand on an issue to make any.) “There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves […]

“The Ancient Mayan calendar speaks of 12-12-2012 as the end of times as we know it, and the beginning of a new cycle of evolution for planet earth, humanity and the cosmos. Mayan elders say that the Ancients were informing the modern world to be ready for a giant transformation for the human race…December 2012 […]

(The workers swarm up the flanks of Big Pink at 0730. Photo Socotra). I am up but groggy. I do not want to go to DIA this morning, but off I will have to go to make an eleven o’clock meeting. Even a full pot of Dazbog Russian Roast coffee TM is not having the […]

(Ms Maureen Bridgid Dowd, 60, in 2008. Photo Denise Williams.) I have no sense of what Mr. Boehner and Mr. Obama discussed yesterday behind closed doors. I hope something is happening that will enable cooler heads to prevail, and some compromise can be found to accommodate something short of complete disaster, but I have no […]

How the heck did this happen? Two weeks to Christmas? Maybe it is because we don’t call it that, anymore. I think we are just being polite, you know, don’t want to offend anyone, after all, and inclusive is a good thing to be. Still, just calling it “the holidays” sort of robs it of […]

(A view of the abandoned Eddystone Hotel near the Detroit Masonic Temple, largest in the world, and sort of threadbare. Photo Socotra.) There is such a lot not to talk about this morning. I am piling up crap to take to the farm and to the dump and am not completely sure which pile is […]