Continue Reading The Allure of the Automobile Some years back the Portland Art Museum presented an exhibit The Allure of the Automobile; I sort of cracked up when I heard…
Continue Reading Car Talk In addition to gardening, my mother was most passionate about driving. Or should we say racing? She liked to compare herself to…
Continue Reading In their own words Not that I claim to run a fair and balanced blog – far from it. I’m just shouting out to the world:…
Continue Reading Don’t fence me in A closer look at the GOP platform makes you shiver and fear for our children and grand children, potentially forever deprived of…
Continue Reading At Our Own Peril There are many points on the Republican platform that one can argue with (or despair over). None is more important and further reaching…
Continue Reading Us vs Them Is there any constituency other than white, male Trump delegates that has not been publicly shamed or denigrated by Trump? With the exception…
Continue Reading Divider or Uniter? Below are some quotes to hold a mirror to Trump who actively abhors inclusive tents, building walls outside of them instead. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/19/1549792/-Donald-Trump-The-Divider “We cannot…
Continue Reading Animal Farm Remember Napoleon and Snowball, two of the main protagonists in Animal Farm? The ruthless leader, the fleeing rebel (assumed to stand in for…
Continue Reading Make America Hate Again The title is borrowed from Timothy Egan’s astute editorial in the NYT a day after the National Republican Convention was over. I can’t…
Continue Reading The True Story of Love This week we covered gentrification, health, sports (I was running from advice, remember) religion, politics and philosophy. It seems fitting to end…
