Gotta love professional and semi-professional posters sitting behind their tiny screens telling us what we should do, not allowing us nobodys to answer and tell them what we think of them.

At a small gathering of maybe a couple of hundred folks in town today (Saratoga Springs). Mostly old folks like me. Where are the younger folks on a Saturday? Does that tell us which side are they on?

so you think you’re eating but this isn’t some kind of fodder to stuff in your bellies it’s bait, it tastes sweet from "a poem for the affluent society" - Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Jerome Rothenberg, translator)

they bring you the love the butcher brings to his sow

from "Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians" by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody, and Barbara Freire-Marreco

Walter R. Brooks born 9 January,1886 Breathes there a pig with soul so dead Who never to himself has said: "This is my own, my native pen?" Whose heart has ne'er within him burned As home his trotters he has turned From wandering in the world of men? from "Freddy and the Bean Home News"

Puts a band-aid on a festering wound. Says a prayer. Eats a cookie Watches a football game.

found scribbled in a notebook dated 1981, unattributed - To me he looks more like a Wilkes-Barre dentist who is being sought by the police in connection with the disappearance of a choir singer.

Meanwhile, every talking head, pundit, columnist, and poster (pro, or semi-pro) thanks the regime forgiving them a new topic to bloviate on.

. . . but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured . . . Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; #MeasureforMeasure_2026 Act II s2 (117-122)

...familiar double-jointedisms as creeping Socialists, disgruntled ex-employees, ritualistic liberals, massive retaliationists, agonized reappraisalists, unorthodox thinkers, unwitting handmaidens...

When there is a change in government, nothing changes for the poor folk except their master’s name. - Aesop

Remix these works for a chance at fame & glory! Submissions are still open for the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

Cool stuff entering public domain: Betty Boop Nancy Drew + her first 5 novels The Maltese Falcon novel Disney's first iteration of Pluto as "Rover" The first fully voiced Academy Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers Dream a Little Dream of Me I Got Rhythm

You have not seen Evita until you've seen her played by Lara Trump. Coming next summer to the Trump-Kennedy Center.

After his day’s work, Santa is apparently not planning to head directly home to Mrs. Claus. (Artwork by Dan DeCarlo)

Our leaders say: It will end in glory. Little man says: It will end in the grave. Our leaders Have met in a room. Man in the street: Abandon all hope. Governments Write non-aggression pacts. Little man, Write your testament! Bertolt Brecht from "German War Primer" Guy Tabori translator

🎵 Oh Chemistree, Oh Chemistree 🎶 How lovely are your beakers. ⚗️

"Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners." - Patrick McGoohan - Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

#Shakespeare What did Shakespeare mean in Coriolanus (Act 1, Scene 1) when Menenius says: Either you must Confess yourselves wondrous malicious, Or be accused of folly. was he just saying: Shit or get off the pot?

Time for another Harper's letter?

#gardening #vegetables I have gardened vegetables (in the USA) for quite a few years. One thing has always puzzled me; if I go to the market and buy snap beans to eat, there's no sales tax. But if I buy a packet of seeds to grow snap beans, there is a sales tax.

Governor Kathy Hochul called the discovery of three "timeout" boxes at Salmon River Central School District "highly disturbing." State and local authorities are investigating.

Wit and wisdom have become homeless beggars.

You all say you hate the regime, but you'll watch it anyway, won't you?

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Amtrak today to NYC, so I'm reading some Brecht on the ride; "Turnadot" translated by Tom Kuhn. Brecht mentions - in what I suppose is a small salute to Jaroslav Hasek, “the Society for Moderate Progress Within the Law.” in scene 5a.

No member of Congress should be trading or owning stocks. We're here to represent and serve our district, not pad our own pockets. Proud to join the discharge petition to force a vote to ban congressional stock trading.

Read our interview with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. Illustration by Gordon Henderson. www.newsjunkie.net/article/inte...

In town at the bookstore today. The new Thomas Pynchon book, "Shadow Ticket," looks pretty good. Pricey, but then so is everything else nowadays - except the public library, where I put in a request for it.

The King had been in the habit not only of creating new regulations but of dispensing with existing laws. As a British judge said in 1688, if the power of the King to dispense with a law were allowed, there would be no need ofParliament. - William O. Douglas

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"...suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will;"

Garden seed catalogs seem late this year. I see Fedco has started charging money for theirs also. Seed prices are up too. Even Dollar Seed raised their prices to $1.15.