Colin Kaepernick on police use of force against people of color "As police officers continue to terrorize black and brown communities, abusing their power and then hiding behind their blue wall of silence and the laws that allow them to kill us with virtual impunity…"Powerful words from Colin Kaepernick.#BlackLivesMatter #RightsNow Posted by Amnesty International USA …
Eating from your yard tip~Rose was the herb of the year in 2012. The Herb Society invited the Rose Society to talk about roses. It quickly became apparent that while Rose Society people strive to grow the perfect rose, Herb Society folks are more interested in how you eat a rose, which baffled the speaker. …
Eating from your yard tip~if you have any open dirt you most likely have lamb’s quarters. Consider it a free gift to fill your tummy. The cooked leaves and soaked seeds are edible. The young leaves are tender, but like all of us get tougher with age, so pick them when they are below 8 …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~kitchen sage (Salvia officinalis) is one of many sages and one of my top five favorite herbs. I have kept the medicinal separate from the culinary in these posts, but with sage the history is too intertwined. There was a medieval staying ~why should a man die, while sage grows …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip: Onion chive flowers, in my humble opinion, are the the most yummy of all edible flowers. The beautiful purple flowers have a slight onion flavor. Once you detach the little bulblets from the base of the chive flower they are both visually and a palette pleasing addition to your …
I like to think I’m fairly well acquainted with obscure bad movies but tonight I’m watching part of a treasure I’d never seen before: Escape to Athena – a 1979 “caper” movie set in WWII and but still oh so wonderfully steeped in the late 70s in fashion, hairdos, speech – the whole package. It’s …
User 276674346 · Marie'sBees.bright – 1 This is a Bellingham, Washington company which has a fantastic jingle. I have no connection to them. I just like the jingle. Please buy the honey soon. They are located near the outbreak of murder hornets (aka the Asian Giant Hornet) up in Washington State and basically no bee …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~violet leaves and flowers are edible and high in Vitamin C & A. I add violet leaves and flowers to my lunch salad. The flowers make a lovely edible garnish on fruit salads, soups, desserts, drinks or frozen in ice cubes. Before commercial food coloring, dark purple violet flowers were …
Tuesday eating from your yard ~ dandelion flowers are the most abundant in the spring. Collecting enough dandelion flowers and removing the petals in large enough quantities to make dandelion wine or syrup takes some time~making the current pandemic lockdown the ideal time. My most favorite use of dandelion flowers is to make dandelion syrup. …
This song is about double standards and unrequited love between a boy and a girl. She wants him overnight but when the sun rises in the morning – she doesn’t want him too close to her. She is afraid of letting him in on an emotional level because she is scared she would be wounded. …
For Biden to win in November he needs to deliver what he said Bernie could not. The former Vice President must do this after killing Bernie’s campaign like Wellington and the Coalition that brought down Napoleon: No… more like Lyndon B Johnson signing overdue Civil Rights legislation after JFK was killed by the interests of …
UK instrumental trio GoGo Penguin has released “Kora,” the second single from their upcoming self-titled album. GoGoPenguin, the band’s sixth full-length and their third album for Blue Note, has moved back to a June 5 release date. Kora is named for the remarkable African stringed instrument, GoGo Penguin’s Chris Illingworth explains: “People often ask us …
Supervillains create problems only they have the solution to fix. Ok, here is the antidote. Putin is the master of this in our generation. Only he can stop the civil war in the Ukraine he created. What a peacemaker? This is the age of Supervillians. An era when so called Evangelicals pass around memes with …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Grammy Award winning, Songwriters Hall of Fame Member John Prine passed away at age 73 due to Covid-19. Some of his most legendary hits include, “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Angel From Montgomery” and “Paradise.” Prine used these masterpieces to highlight moments that the average mind grazed over with empathetic words and light-hearted lines. …
Behold Lauren Jauregui’s live performance of “Lento.” Jauregui is an artist, singer, songwriter, creative and humanitarian. Having spent most of 2019 in the studio, writing and recording new music, the award-winning artist and activist is ready to enter this new phase of her career, with even more new music on the horizon and an album in …
Boris Johnson, England’s version of Donald Trump, who has made a career of playing dumb as a diversion to his blatantly racist statements and policies, has been moved to intensive care for Covid 19. Not so long ago, Johnson declared England should get on with it and infect each other to build immunity. Now he …
Not much different to report from my corner of the world this week. Grocery stores are tightening their social distancing policies, almost by the day, with some items returning to the shelves and others disappearing. Authorities seem increasingly to be acknowledging publicly that the situation is going to last much longer than was previously hoped, …
Power pop is the cruelest genre, mixing memory and desire. It promises so much—sparkling hooks, winsome harmonies, echoes of the songs we loved first and love best—yet so rarely delivers. Turns out hooks are a dime a dozen, harmonies can be bought off the rack, and anyone can borrow that extra chord from a Beatles …
So we sell “Stacy’s Mom” weed as a tribute to the Fountains Of Wayne tune about that attainable and somewhat available Red Hot Momma. The thing is, the songwriter and bassist Adam Schlesinger just died at the age of 52 from Covid 19. Everyone who sees this strain starts singing the song. A nurse came …
Trump plays checkers. All he does is jump back and forth over people and then he says, “King me”. He’s not sophisticated. He just makes a huge commotion, and while he steals what ever used to be headlines, his accomplices steal more sh☆t while nobody’s looking. Stop acting like it’s more complicated than that. When …
If destroying the dominance of the American dollar was your game, Donald Trump is your name. In less than four years he not only undid what Obama rightly did, he is taking it back. Way back. Way past Eisenhower. He’s going back to Hoover. The American dollar is now backed by Trump Steaks and sweat …
I have seen a few of my stock market worshipping friends post about how much money there is to be made of this disaster as markets “inevitably” rally as this virus “fades” and things go back to “normal”. But what they don’t understand about disaster capitalism is that history is undefeated and there is a …
Spring is the prime time to eat dandelion leaves, as the season progresses the leaves are still edible, but they become more bitter. Dandelion leaves are one of the most nutritious green vegetables with vitamin A and C, magnesium, potassium, calcium and iron etc etc. Reaching back to last week’s Tuesday Eating from your Yard …
I never met Dr. Wouter Nolet. The 90 minute drive into the African bush, to visit Masanga Hospital, was not pleasant. My colleague, a plastic surgeon from Ireland, had arranged for the four of us to make the journey in the back of a small ambulance, as the Land Rover, owned by the Holy Spirit …
Just finished my first week of working from home, and I can report a few developments from my tiny corner of the world. First of all, as you can see from my pictures, my pets are not at all perturbed by this recent course of events. There is something to be said of the bliss …
Let’s pick a day for Grandparents Day and found it on the fact that many of us stood up for the idea of not killing Grandpa and Grandma. …and some of we’re all for it, on the outside chance it might improve our 401k situation and there was some inheritance involved. Lets pick a day …
Onion chives are one of my top five herbs. Both the leaves and flowers are edible. The flowers especially have a subtle onion flavor making them both visually and pallet pleasing. My friend Chong Knievel said that in Korea they eat chives in the spring to clean their blood. With that in mind first thing …
Those of you who read my post on visiting Shanghai last month might have noted my expressed hope that the coronavirus, which had sent my daughter stateside when her English school closed, would not follow us home. Though both of us, currently living in my home in Redding, CA, are healthy and hope to stay …
Trump is sneering at us all like he already had the vaccine. Just spit shaking everybody’s hands, …spit roastin’ the biggest lies he can about made up websites that unlike Obama’s are better than his by not even existing…yet. You ever look in the eye of a guy that doesn’t care who lives and who …
As we know, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Yang, whom I supported from his campaign’s infancy, unfortunately had to bow out of the process several weeks ago. $$ F**k Citizen’s United. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/02/united-states-andrew-yang-steps-down-from-presidential-candidacy/ Here is a great article to educate yourself about a Universal Basic Income. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/01/three-misconceptions-about-yangs-freedom-dividend/ UBI allows freedom, and that economic concept found in …