Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

We still have time to mess this up!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Everybody saw this coming.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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  1. 1.

    stinger

    Looking good, especially that big basil plant. What all is in the seed starter cells?

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    frosty

    Nice work! I haven’t graduated to starting seedlings. I either plant the seeds in the ground (lettuce, beans, squash, etc) or buy seedlings (tomatoes, peppers). One of these days, everything from seeds.

    “But it will not be this day” — Aragorn

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    Just beautiful.

    Internet just back. Winds knocked it (and cable) out for a few hours.

  7. 7.

    LesGS

    Seeing coddled seedlings always reminds me of my early ’80s college days, and my boyfriend starting up a bunch of pot plants under a growing lamp in his dorm room. They were at the foot of his bunk bed and doing very well. Then one day he climbed into his top bunk with a glass of water in his hand. He slopped it, spilling onto the lamps, which cause the light-bulbs to explode, shredding the poor little baby plants.

    A sad day.

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    cbear

    Glad to see you’re putting those overalls to good use, Cole.
    Hoe that row and tote that bale, brother.

  12. 12.

    Mary G

    @p.a.: It grows fine for us here in SoCal in the winter, when it’s cooler. Above a fairly low threshold of heat it bolts no matter what we do.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    John, I can’t grow anything, but I do love reading the weekly garden threads. You would seem to be a prime candidate. Hope to see you Sunday morning. Your little seedlings are beautiful and life-affirming.

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    smike

    @p.a.: The plant bolts when the soil warms up, usually into the 80s. If you live in the south the seasons about over.

  23. 23.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @p.a.: I would only grow cilantro from seed. It bolts for pretty much no reason at all. If you want it all summer, sow it every week or two. The bolted plants are always good for the compost heap.

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    Jay

    @p.a.:

    Bolting isn’t triggered by heat, it’s triggered by hours of sunlight.

    Any “crop” suceptable to “bolting” can be easily managed with shade cloth.

  26. 26.

    Anne Laurie

    I may end up stealing these pics for Sunday’s Garden Chat.

    Raised beds in your new garden, right? *Much* easier on aging joints!

    (I pretty much gave up growing basil when I discovered that Trader Joe’s pesto is “good enough” for our taste buds. The sunny space for half a dozen herb plants now hosts another couple of tomato root pouches.)

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    Jay

    @Anne Laurie:

    Nope, grow Basil, but not for pesto.

    Take some good heritage Tomato’s, like Krim’s, and slice them up.

    Place them on a plate, cover with soft provone cheese, chopped fresh basil,

    Salt and pepper, drizzle with balsamic vinigar and good olive oil.

    When at room temp, devour.

  28. 28.

    cosima

    I got a Vietnamese Coriander/Cilantro plant last summer, and it is fab. It’s got all of the coriander/cilantro goodness, but with a hot bite. Definitely an interesting add to lots of dishes. Right now the plant is covered in well over 1 foot of snow, and I hope it makes a comeback when the snow goes away.

  29. 29.

    zhena gogolia

    @rikyrah:

    I think this is fabricated (the cat is being stimulated by something other than Bernard Herrmann’s music and Hitch’s great suspense direction), but it’s hilarious nonetheless!

  30. 30.

    Gvg

    30 years ago they said cats couldn’t watch TV because cats eyes saw better than humans and to them the pictures were a bunch of dots and not recognizable. It did seem like my cats never watched nor did my friends. Now TV’s keep getting higher and higher resolutions and cats do watch.

  32. 32.

    Mary Ellen Sandahl

    Dispute the notion that cats can’t see identifiable objects on tv. No one who saw our late goddess, Miss Piggy, zeroing in for at least 15 minutes on a fantasy movie which featured the skittering of mice filmed in closeup, would think she was seeing meaningless dots. Those were the concentrating orbs of a working predator. This was a good 12 yrs ago, so no new tech was involved

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