Spring is trying. Red-winged blackbirds3 weeks ago. Now spring peepers. The ear is warmed, at least.

We are helping Russia; Iran is helping Russia; Russia is helping Iran kill Americans. Classic four-dimensional chess from our Commander-in-Chief. by Marc Thiessen

I missed Unique Names Day this year. Strictly speaking, my name is not unique, but it is uncommon enough that neither I nor my cousins have ever found our name on any item in any gift or tourist shop. (Might have been different if we’d lived in the 1700’s, and there’d been tourist shops then.)

Remember American outrage and disgust when enraged Somalis dragged the bodies of dead US soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu? White House posting images glorifying the killing Iranians is far worse than what the Somalis did in response to senseless killing of fellow citizens.

Apparently Dementia Don thinks he’s CEO and all the rest of the world are just subsidiaries (and maybe shell corporations), so he can pick their executives. Meanwhile, gas in my area has gone up between 30 and 50¢ a gallon (depending on how much traffic a station has) since Sunday.

Eeading Margaret Atwood, Blind Assassin. Came across a Latin quote. Duck Duck Go offered this:

Frivolous (or not), every time I see photos of pres. & cabinet, I'm struck anew by the appalling fit of their clothes. RFK can't find a shirt whose neck fits. Hegseth's suits are a painful shade of blue, and look like they're 3 sizes too small, with spandex that's about to pop.

Straight white theobros who tell woman what women want didn’t anticipate how Iran would respond to an unprovoked attack. Imagine that.

Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, has it exactly right.

Marie Antoinette may never have said “Let them eat cake”, but given the phrase’s role in popular imagination, I’m not sure RFK Jr’s “let them eat (cheap) steak” is going to have the effect he imagines.

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement. And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent. www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...

IYKYK 🤣

“Concepts of a plan” won’t work any better for regime change than for healthcare. Esp. when T already destroyed all our creative tools for building and influencing.

A walk at my favorite time if day brought a little peace and balance after this day of rage and sorrow. Winter has the best skies. #winterbeauty #joyinwinter #beautyisresistance

Another helpful conversation from Timothy Snyder & guest.

A little respite from the news, from Olive and Mabel www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7q0...

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s9152d

Protecting the PIC (pedophile in chief) by bombing a girl's elementary school just fits.

Blessed are those who make peace open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

T shortened Soc Sec solvency by 10 years, Medicare by 12… …in order to fund a war most Americans don’t even want??

The self-proclaimed master of peace has launched another war. Surprise, surprise.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam I can't stop weeping.

In case you missed it…here’s the facts-only version of SOTU

Someone needs to calculate how many minutes of this speech were spent offering detailed gory accounts of people bleeding during attacks. Honestly. A huge percentage. He has nothing but lies and gore.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

I am ashamed of my government: concentration camps, deporting 36-week pregnant women, chaining people inside an aircraft in a blizzard. I do not consent. We the people do not consent to these atrocities being done with our money and in our name.

I found a brand of GF bread I can eat. So am having toast. This was my mother’s birthday, so I’ve cut my toast into triangles exactly like I remember her doing.

Argyll is not amused by the experience of a snow bidet.

Hoo boy. The storm has escalated to a blizzard warning with a predicted 18-24” snow where I am. From 10a till tomorrow at 6p. Blizzard, in SE PA???

Sunset before the snow. #winterjoy #beautyinwinter

Snow predictions have gone up to 12-18”. This time Thursday they were 1-3”.

Quakertown PA high school students walked out in an ICE protest yesterday. And there's video of a man ID'd as the police chief (brown jacket, no ID) putting a teenaged girl in a chokehold. Arrested teens were still detained as of last report I heard-- around noon today. 6abc.com/post/student...

"RFK Jr. was always alluding to a logic familiar to those within eugenics movements: that strong, healthy, naturally resilient bodies don’t need pharmaceutical intervention, and that those who do are, in some fundamental sense, weaker." lnk.thebulwark.com/4rLPmxL

TFW you read news like this and your first thought is: what nasty bit of revenge / power-grab comes next?

Fair comparison.

I’ve been thinking all day of a butt of malmsey.

These poetry collections mirror the psychological effects of trauma.

My paternal grandfather was born 130 years ago today. He is still the most important person in my life, though he died when I was 10. He filled my world with joy and love. One of my treasured memories is the twinkle in his eyes and crow's feet smile around them.

9 years’ companionship is a womderful thing.

The passing of Jesse Jackson is a good time to remember that “American Christianity” cannot, indeed must not, be reduced to conservative white church traditions. The black church tradition from which Jackson & many others came is a vital, prophetic counterpoint whose voice is as important as ever.

Murrow and Cronkite must be spinning.

Woot! No timetable, and no indication the regime will obey the court, but this is a good thing. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

I'm thinking of my paternal grandmother today, on the 125th anniversary of her birth. She was one of those people who made the world gentler just by occupying space in it.

My Olympic-class curler objects to being photographed in full curl. In 1st photo, she's confident of victory. In 2nd photo, from an earlier round, she's managed to knock her opponent's pillows, er, stones, right out of the house. You can see the poor llama's total disappointment.

More progress in making America weaker.

I looked up the Heritage Foundation's election fraud data base. They've found 1620 proven cases of election fraud. Since 1982. Combined--all states, all levels of elections. How many 100's of millions of votes cast legally during that same time, I wonder?

First walk with Argyll in 3 months that did not include a dog jacket!!!

Dear Europe, Hurry up and reveal the Epstein files Trump doesn’t want Americans to see. Please and thank you, God

Ask not what happens to the economy if billionaires are held accountable for their crimes. Ask what happens next if they are not.