Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on FoxTrot

   Apple cranberry pie!

2. 9 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   Get the Cornell app, ‘Merlin.’ It is the only useful reason to own a smart phone. It will identify bird calls and has pre-recorded calls that you can use to call back to the birds.

3. 11 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   Barred owls are easy to identify by their call: “Who Cooks for You?”

4. 23 days ago on Prickly City

   I heard an interview with Ann Selzer, the Iowa pollster who had Harris winning. She has a great reputation not simply because she has been accurate, but also because she is willing to release her results when they lie outside the mean. She had insightful observations about how the demographics of older voters have changed and accounted for Harris being ahead. I am cautiously optimistic. Of course the threat of violence (already starting with ballot boxes going up in flames) and the promise of contested results if Trump loses is frightening. We have three potential outcomes:1.) Trump wins legitimately and Harris concedes. There will be protests, but I don’t expect a high level of violence.2.) Harris wins a clear victory which stands up to the legal challenges, and the MAGAt’s (briefly) turn to violence. 3.) Harris wins, but a state legislature (I’m looking at you, Georgia) sends an “alternate” slate of electors to the Electoral College and the election is stolen for Trump. This is my greatest fear. If my worst nightmare happens, what will supporters of democracy going to do? Will we mope in the street like we did in 2016, or are we willing to start throwing our wooden shoes into the guts of the machinery?

5. 28 days ago on Prickly City

   This and more of this. Early voting (no excuse absentee in my state) helps, but there are limited sites and short hours. But however you do it, vote!

6. 29 days ago on Prickly City

   As the election gets closer, the comments for Prickly City are become more and more unhinged.

7. about 1 month ago on Last Kiss

   He may think it’s creepy walking through a cemetery at night, but she has to walk out alone

8. about 1 month ago on Prickly City

   At least corporations can’t outsource the longshoremen’s jobs

9. about 1 month ago on Crabgrass

   “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” George W. Bush

10. about 1 month ago on Prickly City

    I must be tough being a Republican knowing that they have under-performed in every election since they overturned Roe v. Wade. This year will be no exception.