lummi island wine tasting Feb 6 ’26
February Schedule!
We will be OPEN for wine tasting and bread pickup each Friday in February, 4-6 pm (6, 13, 20, and 27)
Me, and my Sha-dow…underneath the ….
This week’s wine tasting
Tre Donne Roero Arneis ’23 Italy $21
Pale golden yellow; soft aromas of orange blossom, honeysuckle, nectarine, and lemon verbena; flavors of pear, peach, quince, and green apple; enduring minerality and balanced acidity.
Angeline Cab Sauv ’23 California $16
Fruit-forward with aromas of lush cherry, cassis, rich cherry, and plum flavors with hints of vanilla and soft oak that over-deliver for the modest price.
Hess Paso Robles Cab Sauv ’21 California $26
Intense aromas of bright red cherry and raspberry, followed by notes of cedar and black pepper accompanied by layers of juicy, full raspberry notes, smooth tannins, and lingering finish of chocolate and roasted espresso. Nice!
Economics of the Heart: Constitutional Humanism
The rebellion of Minneapolis residents against the chaotic invasion of “ICE,” (Project 2025’s version of the Nazi SS) has cast a global spotlight on its warrantless brutality and breathtaking violations of Constitutional rights to due process of citizens, refugees, visitors, and families of every nationality, race, religion, and net worth. The Tweetster’s insatiable need to make people suffer seems to drive everything he does, from insulting press agents aboard Air Force 1 to watching ICE actually murder people.
ICE has been turned into a semi-secret, Federal, paramilitary “police force” whose sole purpose is to intimidate the public with armed, masked, nameless, agents deliberately violating, for political and financial purposes, the Constitutional rights of American citizens and visitors and without cause or warrant, demeaning, detaining, beating, scaring, and disappearing ordinary citizens and legal visitors for simply going about their business.
The entire nation has been awakened by the breathtaking cruelty and indifference of Administration officials associated with law enforcement, who all appear to share a general hatred, disgust, and anger against immigrants, women, non-whites, the better-educated, and the poor.
By the way, speaking of money, the “Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Republicans transfers hundreds of billions of dollars from the bottom 90% of individuals and families to the .01% at the very top, making it the largest transfer of wealth from poorest to richest in American history:
- helping the richest get even richer with huge tax cuts
- cutting federal programs that help the poor (like school lunches); and
- raising tariffs which cost the poor a larger proportion of their income.
The Minnesota ICE invasion was supposedly aimed at the large population of Somali immigrants who had escaped from persecution and violence and have established a respected and valued presence in the state. But also, of course, the ICE raids are serve to sow enough chaos, anxiety, and fear to declare Martial Law. The goal seems to be to create enough chaos in enough cities by next summer to justify declaring martial law across the country. A federal takeover of election administration seems to be the goal.
Even now we are all experiencing the dysphoria of a tyrannical Executive branch, a Congressional majority of “sit back, shut up, and don’t rock the boat,” and a rogue Supreme Court of uncertain loyalties. And that has awakened millions of Americans to the existential crisis we are facing…beginning with protecting this year’s election from Federal interference.
At root, this Administration and Project 2025 which drives it have consistently exhibited a strange overlap with the belief that white, wealthy, Christian men are privileged above women, men of other races, or those with less wealth or property, all of whom properly exist in complete subordination to them. This is precisely the massive hubris which Jefferson called a “wall of separation between Church & State,” a concept earlier promoted by Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke.
Jefferson and Locke were right— when religion intrudes into politics, all reason takes a back seat to hubris, greed, and ego.
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