I am on my way to the farmer’s market this morning. I can’t buy much since I’m only here until Monday morning, but I am hoping to pick up some of the really great sweet corn they had last Saturday. Small kernels, tender, very sweet. And white, which makes no difference to me, but it is pretty!
Looks like the US women won their soccer match last night! I am perfectly happy to bump one of the soccer threads to the top of the front page whenever there’s a big match. Someone will just have to nudge me to let me know when that would be. The current one has 131 comments… for you phone peeps, at what point should I add another thread because length gets to be an issue on phones?
Anyway, happy Saturday! What’s everybody up to?
OzarkHillbilly
Work work work work work work work work WONDERFUL WORRRRRK
Too much to do and not enough time in the day. Blech.
BellyCat
Perfect day at Raystown Lake (PA) with kiddo!
NotMax
Media mention.
Found on Freevee via Prime (also on Tubi): Great West End Theatres. Focusing on the history, architecture, design and decor, along with anecdotes aplenty (a sample). I do wish they’d spent a little more time peeking in on non-public spaces, but that’s a quibble. Relaxing watch.
mrmoshpotato
When the cannibalism begins.
HinTN
When HumboltBlue runs out of steam?
Right now, morning cappuccino accompanied by birdsong and creek (talking about these recent rains) through the open window.
eclare
After being wo power for a few days last week, it finally came back Friday afternoon. So I am throwing everything in my fridge/freezer away and going to Kroger. The freezer hurts, whenever there was a sale on meat/seafood I would stock up. Oh well.
As to your question about threads, I pretty much always use my phone to read Balloon Juice, and I don’t have any issues. About that, I should add.
Amir Khalid
What am I doing this weekend? Nursing a sprained ankle. Pout.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Just back from a road trip. What veggies were left in the house went rotten. So I guess we’re headed for the produce market too.
NotMax
Is there really a need to get hung up about it?
;)
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
Which guitar tackled you?
Immanentize
Sipping hot coffee, eating a bagel, then more work at Beach House. This trip saw turkeys, a leopard frog, more osprey. Also, finally, a young beaver munching on my raspberries. Then driving back to Boston. It’s a beautiful day!
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
When did it stop?
mrmoshpotato
Is it ok to just dip celery right into the peanut butter jar?
And if you say no, why are you wrong?
eclare
@Immanentize:
What is Beach House? I thought the place you bought was on a lake?
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Not sure there’s any other way to do it.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Oh… Ummm….. Let me go check my door locks.
Homer Simpson: Faster, boy! He’s got a taste for meat!
Layer8Problem
@Amir Khalid: Luckily you have a helpful kitten to nurse you back to health and cheer you up!
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: Lakes have beaches too.
Immanentize
@NotMax:
Nothing to get hung about….
Strawberry Fields Forever
Baud
@Immanentize:
This reads like a euphemism for something pornographic.
OzarkHillbilly
A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator determined to find it
It’s a long read, some of it is hard, but it’s well worth the time. The post script is a real gut punch.
Layer8Problem
Around here it looks to be a tolerable weekend. Highs in the low to mid 80s, just below 30 for the Celsius-mad, decent air quality. Our house guest of the close relative persuasion is behaving. I’m looking to be lazy and lying about idle, which I’m sure means I’ll be doing laundry later.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Chief Oshkosh
Just basking in the reflected glory of my better half, who weekly organizes and cooks dinners for unhoused, HIV+ women living in transitional living environments. My job is to go get the supplies today, probably chop veggies, and clean as we go.
And stay out of the way otherwise… ;)
Baud
@Chief Oshkosh:
Sounds like you married up.
Tony Jay
How much do I despise the spiteful cretins currently bossing the Labour Party?
Yesterday there were three by-elections to replace MPs who have resigned, one of them Flobalob’s Uxbridge seat on the very outskirts of London, which has never, ever gone Labour in its entire history, including St Blair the Liar’s 1997 Megavictory.
Labour won Selby with a 20% or so swing after huge numbers of Tories stayed home and lots of Lib-Dems voted tactically, the same was true in the other seat down in the south-west where the Lib-Dems triumphed because Labour voters moved over and Tories sat in their arses in protest.
But in Uxbridge, the Tories clung on by a few hundred votes.
Now, you’d think that Labour’s leadership would be high-fiving like mad and using this media window to promote their election winning policies, but if so you don’t understand who and what are leading Labour these days.
You see, the Tories made a centrepiece of their campaign opposition to ULEZ, which is basically the low-emissions/environmentally progressive scheme introduced by Flobalob back when he was London Mayor and carried on and improved by his Labour successor, the current Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Their hypocrisy should have been an opportunity for the entirely centrally directed Labour campaign in Uxbridge to hammer home the message that the Tory Party is a cesspit of lying liars who lie all the time, but they didn’t, because apart from everything else they’re absolutely awful at politics. Hence the Tory’s clinging on.
So instead of bigging up the wins and acknowledging that Labour needs to do more to get across the green message that it needs to harness younger voters, Starmer has instead plunged a knife into Mayor Khan’s back by blaming the entire defeat on ‘his’ ULEZ policy, demanding that Khan should ‘reflect on that’, and insisting that his Labour Party simply cannot be promoting any policies that a Tory might object to.
It’s just breathtakingly cynical and entirely about the spiteful, paranoid factionalism that the mob around Starmer live for. It can’t possibly be the leadership’s fault that their campaign failed to convince one of the most pro-Tory seats in the country to vote for them, it must be the fault of ‘wreckers and vandals’ from other parts of the Party. Khan is popular in London and in the wider Party, but he’s not part of the insular, corporate-owned Labour Right clique advising Starmer so is seen purely as a potential rival who must be brought down. Plus the Labour Right want donations from corporations and groups who oppose environmental regulation, so obviously anything Green has to be dumped as firmly as anything vaguely Red tinged.
Bear in mind, this comes after a week in which Starmer’s mob u-turned on established policy to bring hundreds of thousands of poorer families out of poverty by dumping their commitment to ending the two-child restriction on receiving child benefit (can’t those slutty poors just keep their legs closed?) and their obsessive dedication to purging the Party of anyone who they don’t trust to be 100% loyal to their cult finally started to hit the headlines.
I swear to Dog, these fuckers are absolutely determined to replace the Tories by just becoming the Tories. They’re certainly not interested in giving anyone to the left of Cthulhu any reason to want to vote for them.
Other than that, the holiday is going fine.
Immanentize
@eclare: I did — its not even on the lake but about a mile into the woods from Lake Oneida. But the original farm that the old farmhouse (my new money pit) was built on, was owned by Aldus Beach. It is on Beach Road. I love to confuse people.
My cousin calls it “Casa Boondocks.”
Immanentize
@Baud: Only to those inclined in that direction…
🧐🎩
Baud
@Tony Jay:
Interesting. Someone else here said Khan was on track to lose reelection but that the Tories put up such a yahoo that he could win.
NotMax
@Immanentize
End result will be a son of a Beach house?
;)
Baud
@Immanentize:
My raspberries bring all the beavers to the yard…
MattF
Thinking about breakfast. I sometimes do a Granola-plus: plus fruit, yogurt, cottage cheese, and preserves. Mix it all up and make tomorrow a farty day.
Tony Jay
@Baud: He’s won election twice and London is a Labour stronghold. If there was a chance of unseating him the Tories would have had decent candidates queuing up to run for Mayor, instead they’ve had to scrape a full-on Godbothering Brexiteer off someone’s shoes. What does that tell you?
The Starmerites just see him and London generally as an enemy faction that must be purged and brought to heel. There’s not much more to their hostility than that.
Baud
@Tony Jay:
I’m used to Republicans putting up bad candidates that lose winnable races.
eclare
@Immanentize:
Ahhhh….thanks for the explanation! You could also go with Chez (your last name).
eclare
@Tony Jay:
That sounds incredibly frustrating. Why vote Labour when you can vote Tory and get the same thing?
Nukular Biskits
Mornin’, y’all!
Been a busy week.
Yard work on the agenda today, despite the 4,508,321 bazillion degree heat. Rain chance is in the 60% range this afternoon.
During my morning pre-run morning coffee/reading, came across this that, to me, nails the politics, politicians and current status of my home state, Mississippi:
How the politics of racial resentment is killing white people
Josie
I am studying the intricacies of Amazon ads for my book. It is a fascinating world of details that I was totally unaware of. I love researching and learning new stuff, so this is sort of fun. Weird, huh?
ETA: It’s way too hot to do anything outside except water my pot plants and run back into the house.
MomSense
My counter protest plans were postponed because of rain (and lightning!). My mom took the bus and instead of meeting me at the protest, we had dinner and then went to see my kid’s band play in Ogunquit.
I spent a lot of time there when I was young but I think it’s been 20 years since I’ve been there. Leavitt Theatre is the same as when I saw the first Indiana Jones movie there. Last night it was rocking! So much fun. They show movies silently in the background so I got some amazing photos/videos of my kid playing guitar with TRex behind him.
I noticed the theatre has a lot of drag shows coming up. My favorite flyer said something like Rude Crude and Yes We’re Actually Dudes! I think I’m heading back to Ogunquit.
Only downside is that we got home at 2 am and I typically turn into a pumpkin by 10. Oh well. It was a fun night. My mom had a ball. It was worth it.
I’m going to guzzle some coffee before I make the trek upta camp.
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Isn’t that a good chunk of your path to power?
But yeah, Khan might well be beatable by a top-tier Conservative candidate, but they don’t exist. If they did Starmer and Co wouldn’t be 20% ahead in the polls. The Tories have spent the last few years shitting the bed so thoroughly that almost everyone just wants to see the back of them.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Oh, no, how did that happen?
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: All that wildlife! I suppose the baby beaver was forgiven for its transgression?
@Immanentize: My first thought, too!
eclare
@Nukular Biskits:
Nails a lot of states, basically every one that did not take free(!) money and expand Medicaid.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Consexit.
//
Raven
Illini Supersweet!
John Laughnan was a corn geneticist and professor of botany. In the early 1950s he was studying the shrunken-2 (sh2) gene and discovered this gene led to corn that produced kernels with less starch and four times more sugar than other sweet corn at the time. When Laughnan started marketing his varieties of sweet corn with the sh2 gene, he developed the “Illini Supersweet” hybrid. Today “supersweet” is often used synonymously with sh2.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: That all sounds absolutely perfect! Even the staying up late part, assuming you get to take it easy today. You’re going to camp!
Nukular Biskits
@eclare:
Yeah, but they sure taught that Muslim usurper a lesson he’ll never forget and “OWNED THE STEWPIT LIBTARDS! HYUCK!HYUCK!HYUCK!”
WaterGirl
@Raven: Sadly, they did not have the amazing white corn today. I got a few ears of what they called its “sister corn” – yellow, I think.
I will know more after lunch. :-)
lowtechcyclist
@mrmoshpotato:
I slice up apples and dip the slices into the PB jar. If celery is your thing, then go for it.
We just got back from the farmers’ market. Among other produce and baked goods, we bought a zucchini that is bigger than my size 12 clodhoppers. A Third World family of four could live off that sucker for a week.
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: The state GOP would never have done it so the voters did at the ballot box. Surprise surprise the state GOP now wants to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives.
Tony Jay
@eclare:
That’s the question a LOT of people are asking, and all they’re getting in response is either “Well enjoy five more years of Tories, moron!” or “They’re just being clever to look electable, once in power they’ll do absolutely everything you could possibly want.”
If you point out that the people running Labour are the exact same mob who spent the entirety of Corbyn’s leadership telling everyone who would listen that decent people should’t really be comfortable voting Labour, they’ll just scream at you and start throwing poop around.
It’s sad, but this is what happens when the people informing the country about politics are so afraid of paying a few more pennies in tax that they simply have to tell whatever lies are necessary to prevent that horror from coming to pass.
Not that they’re ever going to admit it, of course.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly:
Here in TN we don’t get voter initiatives, as far as I know. We don’t even elect our AG, that position is appointed by the TN Supreme Court. Can’t let people vote too much!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: Living in Iowa spoiled me for buying corn. I used to get it from the back of a pickup truck in a parking lot–picked that morning.
gwangung
I’ve taken a quick trip to Minnesota just because….I haven’t seen my theatre friends for a while and one of them has written a duopoly: Kung Fu Zombies: Shaman Warrior.Female protagonists. SE Asian based. Fight choreography galore.
Irresistable.
Dorothy A. Winsor
As for what I’m doing, I’m thinking about maybe, possibly thinking about thinking about writing something. Maybe.
Also I should phone my siblings and my best friend. And get some exercise.
Layer8Problem
@Layer8Problem: Whoop, the honeymoon’s over. The related houseguest has just unconsciously made the third grotesque inhaley snort in the past half-hour. Partner and I in response have just Gazed Significantly at each other.
AM in NC
I will shortly be watching F1Qualifying while going through lists of Dem or unaffiliated voters from my precinct who vote sporadically, trying to target those who might be fruitful for canvassing drops. We want to do regular flyers to those folks to remind them of all the great things Dems have been doing; inform them of new GOP voter ID requirements; and connect them with the Dem. Party throughout the year. We already send hand-written postcards to every newly-registered Democrat in our precinct to welcome them to the neighborhood.
We are also trying to coordinate with other precincts and other counties to share these materials so that we aren’t all reinventing the wheel all the time. I am excited about our new state-level Democratic leadership. Not so sure about my county’s leadership this time, but we have good precinct people and volunteers in abundance.
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: The Guardian had this up today: Tennessee toughens voting rules for people with felony convictions
Definitely can’t have those people voting.
Jackie
@mrmoshpotato: I dunk cheese sticks into my peanut butter jar. No one else to eat the peanut butter, so I double dip with gusto😋
NotMax
@gwangung
Brought to mind one memorably fun night in the theater in the mid-1980s, attending a performance of the outrageously titled Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.
eclare
@AM in NC:
That all sounds promising!
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My Aunt and Uncle had a fishing/hunting camp on the Lake of the Woods. When we went up for a visit it was always in August, their off season. One year the old man stopped at a roadside stand in Iowa and bought a peck of sweet corn. When we finally arrived on the island it was 10 PM and the kitchen was shut down for the night. So Betty set up a big pot of water and made sweet corn for everybody. Sweet corn and seconds of sweet corn with 3rds for those who wanted it.
One of the best damned dinners I’ve ever had. Absolutely one of the most memorable.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly:
There is no bottom. I wonder what the court “fee” is to get restoration?
Thanks for the link.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Corn still warm from being in the field is a whole different veggie.
Anyway
Had a busy, stress-filled week at work and look to be lazy and decompress a little today. Maybe some light clean up, yard work as the mood strikes…and catch up with my neighbors.
gwangung
@NotMax: Classic! (I suspect my friend’s piece is not as campy, but still leaning into the fun…)
Nukular Biskits
@eclare:
MS had a voter initiative process, until the state supremes struck it down as a result of a lawsuit filed by some a-hole who was desperately trying to stop the medical marijuana ballot initiative over two years ago.
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sounds like TN is envious of MS.
That’s pretty much what we do here … it’s a vestige of Jim Crow and our current (mostly “conservative” white) political leadership in this state is quite happy with the status quo.
eclare
@Nukular Biskits:
That sounds familiar, I’m to the north of you in Memphis so we get some MS news.
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: People keep saying that…
;)
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly: As I remember from my childhood summers there, one does not get sweet corn like that in Ontario. You bet I’d open up the kitchen and feast 😊
OzarkHillbilly
@eclare: More than your average working stiff can ever save up.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yep!
This was from the back of a pickup truck – 3 trucks in fact b/c three varieties – but I doubt it was picked this morning. Surely yesterday.
MagdaInBlack
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The Del Monte plant in Mendota, IL contracted out their sweet corn to farmers in the area, some of which were friends of ours. We always knew the day before they were set to pick, so we would be out in the field the night before…filling the back of a pick up truck.
Having had a miserable summer job de-tasseling for Del Monte, I felt I had earned some of their corn.
laura
Sacramento Saturday Corn Report- spouse and I drove up the Jackson Highway to Davis Ranch, the home of sloughouse corn and other less celebrated vegetables the other day and got a couple sackfuls of white and yellow corn. Shared half with friends, ate some for dinner the night before last. Today, I’ll convert the remainder into cowboy Caviar and we’ll be eating it on tortilla chips until we chase the very last kernel.
It’s been so hot and we’ve got days more to endure, so it’s off to the backyard to water and weed, and then sail the couch with some books and some icy hibiscus tea and maybe some painting. I’ve got a backyard mural project and I’m going to narrow down the color palate and effects before I put brush to wall.
Nelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor: As we do. It rivals the sweet corn we got when we lived in New Zealand. We make entire meals of eating one ear of corn after another.
Anyway
@laura: tortilla chips and corn-bean salad is my jam! I live on that all summer. Pico for variety.
eclare
All of this talk of wonderful corn, I guess I’ve never had any. I don’t think I’ve seen it at our big downtown farmers’ market. I just googled, corn does grow here. Maybe it’s all grown for livestock feed.
I don’t remember having it much growing up.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: Oh, man, you need to rectify that. My father used to grow it in the backyard. I’m too lazy to go get it now, but when you get it, it is a gourmet treat.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: You have to find some small farm that sells it by the side of the road.
dnfree
@mrmoshpotato: Answer from last night: These days I microwave sweet corn! No more waiting for the big pot of water to boil. I shuck the corn, put it in an old Corningware flat square casserole with a lid, and microwave for maybe 4 minutes. Another plus is that the cob also gets heated so the corn stays warm longer while you’re eating it. The only water is what’s left on the corn after I rinse it off.
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
I would have to go a pretty good ways to find that, I think. There is a smaller farmers’ market pretty close, maybe I’ll try there. The downtown one is huge.
dnfree
If fresh local sweet corn is in season, homegrown tomatoes can’t be far behind….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-QzLIjL1u4
zhena gogolia
@eclare: Do you mind saying what part of the country you’re in?
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
I am in Memphis. I also just found an article that says that supersweet corn does not grow well here and should be avoided.
dnfree
@Jackie: if your peanut butter is soft enough to dip cheese into, you’re probably not refrigerating it after opening? And even your own germs from today, or last week, or however long the jar sits around, can multiply unpleasantly.
I know the recommendation to refrigerate peanut butter after opening is controversial, but Consumer Reports scared me years ago and I refrigerate it.
NotMax
@dnfree
Almost too easy to microwave fresh corn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlPLcG73L8"in the husk. And it really does emerge silk-free.
I find a thick hand towel more helpful then the oven mitt he uses in the video to free the cob. Reheat it later on after it’s out of the husk? Wrap in a dampened paper towel.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: Oh, yes, you probably need to be a little farther north. You probably have some delicious corn nonetheless. I don’t really like it super-sweet.
NotMax
Linky coding fix. (Sorry ’bout that.)
@dnfree
Almost too easy to microwave fresh corn in the husk. And it really does emerge silk-free.
I find a thick hand towel more helpful then the oven mitt he uses in the video to free the cob. Reheat it later on after it’s out of the husk? Wrap in a dampened paper towel.
dnfree
@zhena gogolia: Our local farmstand had posted earlier in the week that they would have sweet corn on Saturday (today). Then yesterday they posted that surprise, they had some. I saw the post 15 minutes after it went up, jumped in my car, and drove over. The place was packed. We had it for dinner last night and will have more tonight.
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
That’s what I figured, it’s too hot here for the really good corn.
kalakal
@Tony Jay:
The Evening Standard has also helped Khan by showing the Tory Loon on their cover.
Vote for me! I’m sane
She’s a terrible candidate, the equivalent of a full blown MAGA Trumpist in a purple district. Amongst other thing she wants to bring back Lettuce Liz’s economic policies.
ULEX is pretty unpopular in the outer suburbs, classic nimbyism and probably did hurt their vote but Labour did really well in the bye elections, that’s the message Starmer should be pushing. The media should be full on “The Tories are stuffed”, instead there’s that mixed with a ton of garbage about how Labour are planning to ditch ‘Green policies’. Temperatures are at their highest ever, every 2nd headline is climate doom, and the Labour leadership is worried about scaring 70 year old Tory voters who will never vote for them anyway . Want to win elections? Forget trying to win over hardcore right wing nutjobs, instead fire up under 25s and you’re not going to do that by offering oatmeal
dnfree
@NotMax: Thanks—I’ve seen that method more recently, but I was already into the microwaving as I described. I think the lid on the shucked corn has a similar result to leaving the husks on, or the paper towel? I’ll have to try it sometime. (This way I get to see and remove any worms or bugs.)
NotMax
@dnfree
Trick the cooks at summer camp used to employ when boiling hundreds of ears of freshly shucked corn in humongous pots was to add milk to the cooking water. Corn did come out noticeably sweeter.
kalakal
Been crazy busy for the last few weeks so normally only get to reading dead threads. Nice to comment rather than just lurk.
Had a lovely Thursday afternoon this week. The latest subject in my biographical lectures was Beethoven, wasn’t sure how it would go, in the event I had a great time and the punters seemed to enjoy it.
I played it out with this performance of the Ode to Joy and people were coming up with tears in their eyes saying how beautiful it was. Fortunately I had a box of tissues😀
Miss Bianca
@gwangung: Is that in Minneapolis? I have a friend who’s going to Minneapolis in a couple weeks, I will tell her to look out for this one! (currently she’s booked to see Into the Woods at the Guthrie, but I am sure she would make a detour for Shaman Zombies.) :)
@dnfree: I always refrigerate the peanut butter I get because the oil separates and it becomes a goopy mess if I don’t.
opiejeanne
@dnfree: When I was a kid we had a couple of acres and my family planted a big garden every year; planting day was always a big deal and sweet corn always took up the largest space.
We went to dinner at a friend’s house once and took them a big bag of ripe corn as a gift, but there was a worm near the top of one ear and the wife threw the whole bag away WHILE WE WERE THERE!. A criminal offense, for sure and My mom never forgave her, in private referred to her as a city girl. The city girl insult makes me laugh now: This was all in Los Angeles county, we lived in Baldwin Park and our friends lived in Eagle Rock.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: I don’t know about that. I’m not sure how MO compares to TN, but we had good corn, it just wasn’t the super-sweet stuff. I prefer it a little less sweet but with a deep flavor.
zhena gogolia
@opiejeanne: Oh, that is tragic. That sounds like a scene from Mad Men.
Cowgirl in the Sandi
@Raven: Illini Supersweet!
We lived in Illinois when I was a kid and I remember once when someone my father knew brought us some Illini Supersweet!. It just blew everyone away compared to regular corn.
eclare
@kalakal:
That is beautiful.
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
I’ll keep a look out for it now.
As for heat, I just googled, and if it’s anything to go by Memphis is in a different hardiness zone than MO.
gwangung
@Miss Bianca: Yup. At Theater Mu.
Sondheim is always fun; saw Mu’s version (all Asian American) the last time I swung into Minneapolis. (And I have some acquaintances on the national tour)….
Mustang Bobby
Gathering with family to celebrate my mom’s life and put her ashes next to Dad in the garden wall of the little chapel in the woods in the place in northern Michigan where we spent many summers and where they lived year-round for fifteen years.
AM in NC
@Mustang Bobby: Thinking about you and your family. We scattered my mom’s ashes a couple of weeks ago. This is all so hard. Glad you and your family can be together!
Tony Jay
@kalakal:
Hand on heart, I think the Lost Cause Loons running Labour these days have come come to the conclusion that progressive politics and firing up the under 25s = a membership that would, if offered the opportunity, dump their corporate owned centre-right arses and go Left again. So they would rather leave that entire voting demographic to wither on the vine of FPTP and instead seek the votes of elderly Tories and racists who reward authoritarianism as long as it’s wrapped up in anti-hippy, anti-green, anti-woke flagshagging.
That’s the Starmer Project in a nutshell. Oatmeal and bile. That’s all that’s on the menu.
eclare
I am at Kroger, and it has frozen super sweet corn. I picked up a bag.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist: I have a couple apples too.
dnfree
@opiejeanne: That was a criminal offense! We had a big garden in northern Illinois when I was young. We did a lot of weeding and hoeing, but we also ate warm tomatoes fresh off the vine, like apples. Great memories.