Monarch Butterflies.... R.I.P.
(Found this beautiful picture by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson on Wikipedia, licensed for non-profit use under the Creative Commons 3.0.)Bayer and Monsanto merged…..Millions of kilos of glyphosate being...
View ArticleDo not watch this YouTube video.
Emotional Deprivation in Infancy, A Study by Rene A. Spitz, Copyright 1952Don’t watch this. It will haunt you. Especially as this was done in 1952, and we are seeing a new wave of damaged children...
View ArticleCannot get OFF Bost's Congressional email list any more....
Once again landed on the unwanted screed-dump “Newsletter” from the pitiful excuse we here in IL-12 have for a CongressCritter. This makes about the third or fourth time I’ve been unwillingly...
View ArticleRepublican representative tweets "Happy Birthday" to the Navy with picture of...
Representative Brian Mast said "Happy Birthday, U.S. Navy" and added a picture of the "Peter the Great" Russian battle cruiser.If there was ever a “LAST STRAW” for me, this was it.(Edited to reflect...
View ArticleWhat's in the garden?
We have been growing a good portion of our own food for many years now. I have had a garden of some sort, even when living in the barracks in West Berlin, almost my entire life.I don't generally plant...
View ArticleGardening and weather and relaxation later.
It's a quiet evening, after working outside in the 32C humidity. We had our requisite thunder storm already, and it's all toads and frogs having crazy-wild amphibian sex outside now. Last night we...
View ArticleCongress-Traitor Mike Bost, You Have Betrayed Your Oath.
I know you can’t feel shame. You never could when we were growing up playing in the dirt of the trucking company yard across the street from the tar-paper shack I grew up in.But you SHOULD. You...
View ArticleJust checked, didn't see it. Intiuitive lands on the moon
The official NASA YouTube video of the Intuitive landing.They made it down safely, the modules all report themselves to be working perfectly. They have about two weeks before Lunar sunset, when the...
View Article"But Climate Change Is Junk Science!"
“Hurricane Florence is the storm of a generation.”“Florence could have storm surge waters over 15 feet.”“Forty-plus inches of rain are possible in some already-saturated areas.”But remember, kiddies!...
View ArticleThey're NOT "Conservative." They're "Reactionary."
Conservative: Cautiously moderate; uncomfortable with change, especially rapid change.Reactionary: Against any change whatsoever; advocating a return to the status quo ante.I wish people would stop...
View ArticleQuestion about BlueSky videos.
First and before it becomes a question, I do not mind at all that there aren’t any of Melon Husk’s Twitxer links in here. Blue Sky or Mastodon or about anything other than the oligarch-owned sites is...
View ArticleNorthern-Indian Goat Curry recipe
Instead of as a comment to this diary,I am putting this recipe for Northern-Indian Curried Goat here in a separate diary.IngredientsSeasoned Meat 2 tbsp ground coriander 1/2 tbsp red Indian chilli...
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