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Riddle me this. Donald Trump made a deal with Russia for diesel fuel. Russia supplies and backs Iran. Iran and the US are at war. The amount of diesel is small in comparison to the world’s ne…

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Frida, October 9, 2026 — Ashland, southern Oregon. Our hot, summerish streak is holding, with blue skies and sunshine. Clouds are sprinkled across the blue to keep it from being pristine, mak…

What’s Trump doing today? We ask that question every day at my house. We ask even though we know he’ll be lying, whining, distracting, and doing things that test the limits of law, ethi…

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Trump has nothing but desperation and empty words as we count down to the midterm elections at this point. He’s offered money. He’s tried distractions. Now he’s trying to gaslight…

My wife is pissed. She unleashed a rant this morning, growing angrier as she spoke. The focus of her ire was dual: Trump and his remarks about Iran taking out a couple American cities, and the news…

We’ve seen enough of Donald Trump to know his approach. He’s used them in business, interpersonal relations, and in politics. We know what to expect. Trump begins with lies, misinformat…

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Just finished reading a book. Non-fiction, it’s by Michael Lewis. It’s called “The Premonition”. The book is about the US government’s efforts to develop a coherent pa…

I was part of a military unit. A light colonel – a commander from my real life – led us. Something disastrous had happened, and we’d shifted into holding on, bracing for attacks and problems. Food,…

Donald J Trump’s latest efforts to protect himself has shown ghastly ignorance and is deeply rooted in fear. The fear that Trump is feeling is that if the GOP loses control of Congress, he wi…

Paul Krugman gets right to the point with his headline: The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption Mr Krugman shows us the receipts, among them, the damning one that looms over the nation:…

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Ashland, southern Oregon. Sunday, October 4, 2026. Supposed to be bright, sunny, and hot today, but clouds swamped three fourths of the sky, and sunshine struggled to be seen and felt. Never reache…

Donald Trump made headlines with a new steel manufacturing complex in Iowa. In it is a tale about the Republican party. In 2008, Essar Steel Minnesota planned to build a taconite mine, a direct-red…

Ashland, southern Oregon — Saturday, October 3, 2026. A scorcher of a day is set up. Long stretches of thin white crossing the atmosphere’s bowl, but it’s mostly blue. Dropped to …

We were the beneficiaries of a Trump threefer in yesterday’s news spillage. A twofer is when you get two for one; with a threefer, well, you can do the math. Donald Trump is known for telling…

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Ashland, southern Oregon — October 2, 2026. It’s a summery fall day with a spring feel in our area. A thin, waning moon hides behind a screen of nebulous clouds in a bright blue sky. Su…

I had to laugh when I read the complaint. Here’s the headline that drew me in: Trump blew his top during his Time interview with a furious curse-filled tirade Donald Trump blowing his top dur…

Young again, as it often happens in my dreams, my wife and I were at a three-day festival. We knew a few people there casually, but most were strangers. We were making acquaintances, though. I’m no…

I don’t know about others, but I’m having WordPress issues today. The long and short: I can’t add tags. They just get swallowed and disappeared. I closed it, rebooted, tried it in…