Month: November 2024

This year, for Thanksgiving at Potlatch, the Pilgrim’s turkey was replaced by a pig. There was turkey for the traditionalists, and all the usual offerings of mashed potatoes, cranberries, and assorted pies, but the star of the holiday was a one hundred twenty-five pound pig from the University of Georgia Ag School. As usual there…

It’s only twelve days since the election and the president-elect has already put forth a menagerie of characters to serve in his cabinet and high ranking jobs. His choices so far include a bomb-throwing clown for Attorney General, a vaccine skeptic and sometime wack-job for Secretary of Health and Human Services, a lightweight Fox New…

As a young sage I know likes to say, “It is what it is!” which, apparently, suggests that something has happened and we have to live with it. I guess that pretty well sums up where we are as we await the second Trump administration. Like many of you, I’m still processing the election results…

Like James Carville, Democratic pundit, I’ve been in a dark tunnel since late Tuesday evening. Even though I predicted Trump’s triumph, I had continued to hope that the Democrats might win. Somehow, I can’t get over how we could re-elect a president who publicly spews hate and profanity and instigated a violent attack on the…