This is a very good piece about two very bad public performances.

Nothing will change until somebody says publicly to Trump, to his face, You sir are full of shit.

What do you call a government committed to crushing anti-fascists?

Home is someplace in the future, not the past.

The brook slips downstream. All day turning maple and ash contested the blue sky, while dying poplar leaves shimmered like garlic in the pan. Tonight we'll lie in the cool dark, listen to the brook's excited chatter as it makes its way to the sea, and savor knowing no fascist can make it stop.

Somebody in Mike Johnson's high school called him a dipshit and it's been true ever since.

This is the personal opinion of a little old man of no importance, so take it as you wish, but a police state is a very troubling development.

Picturing 40% of my fellow Americans nodding and saying, Sounds about right. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Vermont catamount sighting

David Cross folks.

Autumn medley

Hornets nest

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

When you normalize outrageous behavior you also normalize weak responses to it. You are practicing being weak.

Seems like any peace plan that cannot succeed without Trump would be a stinker right from the start.

Very reassuring if you're Taiwan.

I bet he blames his lousy golf scores on his clubs.

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

You have to assume Rand Paul doesn't go up to Chicago often. Or anywhere.

Stop the violence, Mr President, suspend the Second Amendment.

MAGA should smoke out the 'Antifas' in their own house first. You know they're there, Boomers mainly whose parents had been Rockefeller Republicans, impure of heart, oh so impure of heart. Before they purge the country, they need to purify themselves, initiate some bloodletting within the family.

Once you've decided not to feed people you really don't need data to prove you're not feeding them.

Not at conservatives are shitheads, but all shitheads are conservative.

Antifa leader, wanted by United States government

(a) Edmund Burke is dead, he ain’t coming to my campus. (b) The debate-me bros have this weird idea that universities are just non-stop ‘talks’. No, universities are mostly non-stop grading.

A nice local story out of Albany www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/n...

“Full force” on American citizens.

Mentioned Trump's anti-antifa EO to my brother. It's hopeless.

The mountain preparing for its long rest.

When the government goes after an organization that doesn't exist, everyone is the usual suspect.

It's good living in a blue state, and even better in one with cider donuts.

red ball on the run

Late September on Ninemile Road

I don't know, but it seems like turning non-heroic people into heroes is a questionable tactic.

My prediction is that the crack team that has been prosecuting sandwich terrorism in D.C. will be brought in to work on this case.

NYT says we've officially entered a grave period. Thanks for the news flash, guys. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

Once a generation, if we are fortunate, we are treated to a crisp glimpse of the future.

And all this time I believed lying to Congress was the national pastime.

For the longest time, we Boomers weren't aware Gen X existed.

You can tell the elite by noting their dedication to having it both ways.

If caring about trans people or gay people or immigrants automatically makes someone a “leftist,” then…

Okay, so which pre-revolutionary Russian novel are we all trapped in?

If one symbol can sum up the Trump years, it's the exclamation mark.

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

corporate americans are really tripping over themselves to answer the question “what would you have done” with “immediately join the vichy government and start deporting people to poland”

Share your favorite black and white film.

You cannot end political violence by shouting about it.

You don't need to be a radical leftist to hate the actions of ICE.

How long before we switch sides again in Ukraine?

Meanwhile, back in Boomerville