There needs to be an organization and alternative economic model for people who are recovering from a career in predatory capitalism.

"I have no quarrel with history, although I am often appalled by the people who make it." - Guy Williams, Disney's "Zorro." youtu.be/oGdo8XicJm0?...

Give it up for the Spaceman. youtube.com/watch?v=A64A...

To sum up so far: 1) The United States military is being deployed against US citizens as its new primary mission. 2) The Qatari Air Force has just been given permission to build a facility at a US base in Idaho. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? www.rawstory.com/trump-qatar-...

Daily Wisdom: Be very, very careful when describing the cleanliness and condition of your home. While it's a common metaphor, calling it "a war zone" could lead to a Nat'l Guard unit being deployed to your kitchenette in the current environment.

The party of Back the Blue has no trouble gassing the Blue, it seems. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

TL;DR Peter Thiel is obsessed with philosophers who have grappled with Nazism, both pro and con, so he can be a better fascist. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

I have read that Peter Thiel is going about giving lectures about the Antichrist. I can't stand people who do nothing but talk about themselves for an evening.

America is truly the land of opportunity as long as you’re photogenic, can remember your lines, and hit your marks. To go by our current leadership, nothing else is expected or required

It occurs to me this morning that America can't even produce good fascists any longer. Think about it - we've been outsourcing for decades, and our current inspirations are Hungary and Russia, whose leaders can at least complete a thought. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2674...

It should be noted that then-Prince (now King) Charles did NOT have Milligan imprisoned in the tower, exiled, beheaded or otherwise maimed. Just a thought about how a real world leader handles a court jester. youtu.be/eOImvIBH8G8?...

Gatemouth Brown making Roy Clark flat out work for it on a Duke Ellington standard. youtu.be/XlnB7yOeBKE?...

Obey Cat. Keep Sunday for resting and sleeping on laps.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

I watched the Lone Ranger in reruns in the early days of cable. Yes, the shots of the LR looking out over the West to make sure it's still there & Tonto riding past the dead body are a bit hokey and easy to make fun of. The theme music/opening titles still make me happy. youtu.be/p9lf76xOA5k?...

The week has been MAD - of course, that's just any ordinary day in the United States lately, as it has been for the past decade. Must be why this song popped into my head. It's older, yes - but Rachel Fuller (and her husband, the Who's Pete Townshend) wrote a good one. youtu.be/WmBk_YM6kM4?...

Reads thus far: #booksky: Methods & Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay by Craig Turner & Tony Soper The Actor’s Analects by Charles J. Dunn & Bunzo Torigoe The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse Hunting Magic Eels by Richard Berg Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Monday Cat is offline for the moment and will resume normal operations whenever she feels like it

In today's adventures, the new queen of New Box Hall, Spunky (aka Regina Fortis) has summited the refrigerator and planted the flag. She can now, at her discretion, survey the vast expanse of the kitchen from the crags and cliffs of the L/G refrigerator/freezer unit.

The new Queen of New Box Hall - Spunky, Herself.

My much-beloved Jonesie girl crossed the rainbow bridge this Thursday past, as the result of both stage 3 kidney disease and pericarditis. She died in my lap, with both my mother and I giving her pets and telling her how wonderful she'd been, and covered by her favorite fuzzy pink blanket.

One thing I know, and two things I've learned: Steer clear of people who complain about being islands and yet burn every bridge, and who can take a conversation with them and turn it into one ABOUT them in little time at all.

We are at trade war with the world, including two uninhabited islands, in an action planned by a human with the brain of a walnut. Even George Orwell must be saying WTF. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-carel...

And now, the legendary Eartha Kitt singing with British comedy legend Sir Harry Secombe of “The Goon Show.” youtu.be/-TYUCe5_oaM?...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... In case you wondered how ICE was getting its information. We talk about Putin being a shadow president, but never forget Netanyahu

Because Sundays are for music, one of my favorite violin pieces: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s violin concerto in D. youtu.be/lcGEGl5bdbk?...

Interesting news from Canada electrek.co/2025/03/07/t...

youtube.com/watch?v=iV84... The best Western ever made, and the best soundtrack

That feeling you have when, after several years of very intermittent exercise, you go to your first cardio dancing class and can’t move your legs very well afterward.

New Book Day at New Box Hall. 😁

It is snowing here in the Valley, in March, and on St. Patrick’s Day. Snakes being cold-blooded, perhaps he’s trying to freeze them out

Sigung Taky would be 101 had he lived. So, it’s beef with oyster sauce (Sijo Bruce’s favorite dish), and tea with a dearly loved and missed friend.

Let Them Eat Cake, DOGE Edition. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

And her eyes were watching birds, and awaiting their return

Reading further in Margery Kempes’ life brings me this gorgeous side bit of history: Before taking up the church, Pope John XXIII started out as a pirate from Naples. How does one say ARRRR in Latin? Or is that what the vulgate is for?

Current reading for International Women’s Day - and what I thought would be a relatively quiet life in medieval England is instead the story of a force of nature. Margery Kempe was determined, intelligent, opinionated, and a pain in the ass. But what a life she led.

Happy International Women's Day...

Being young involves a lot of finding out what you don't know and then correcting course. Being young and an agent of DOGE means just being young without having the burden of actually learning anything. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Well said!

At the Missoula Children’s Theatre for a performance of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” and I haven’t been in the MCT space since high school. WOW. Among other things. 😮

Trying to train Jonesie to use her exercise wheel is a bit like dealing with Okoye from "Black Panther." I will ask Jonesie if she can move the wheel to get the treats I've placed on it, or if she can get up on the wheel. Sometimes she does; other times, she says (in Cat) "When she wants to."

Mental Jukebox: Because while the movie is uneven, the idea of it - what if Peter Pan DID grow up? - is worthy, and the score is BRILLIANT. True Nature Fact: I was on a webseries shoot in 2022 where the stunt coordinator was Dan Speaker, the fencing coach from "Hook." youtu.be/euwUsMS8oJM?...

This would be the definition of "mission creep" - when the entire world's a battlefield, anything is permissible, even bombing civilians. My father has a friend whose father was a guard at the Nuremberg Trials. Somewhere in the Afterwards, Elmer Funk is rolling over in his grave.

Anyone know any good, old-fashioned trade war songs like our grandparents used to sing? Standards like, "We Taxed 'Em Before (And Now We'll Tax 'Em Again)?" I will not despair, but that does not minimize my shock at waking up in a USA that alienates its friends & rewards its enemies.

Watching for Spring, Tuesday Edition

I STAND WITH ZELENSKYY SLAVA UKRAINE!

And now for something that at least makes me happy - I describe myself as a "Zorroastrian," and if you wonder what that means, it means I am a die-hard fan of the Fox of Old California. Zorro never fails to make me smile. Ever. youtu.be/NYsONRdHGeE?...

You can always trust a predator to look after their own. After all, didn't Trump intervene on their behalf? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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