lummi island wine tasting March 6 ’26
Open Fridays 4-6 pm
Setting sun edges toward Spring Equinox near Orcas Island’s north end…
Friday Bread This Week
Pain Meunier – aka miller’s bread; pre-fermented dough of wheat berry flour, whole wheat, cracked wheat, and wheat germ…Great toast! – $5/loaf
Sonnenblumenbrot – ‘Sunflower Seed; from an overnight pre-ferment with milled rye, toasted sunflower seeds, and malt syrup…a classic German seed bread- $5/loaf
…and pastry this week…
Rum Raisin Brioche: A delicious brioche dough of eggs, butter and sugar, filled with golden raisins, chunks of almond paste, and a chocolate glaze. – 2/$5.
This week’s wine tasting
Juggernaut Chardonnay ’22 Sonoma $17
Barrel fermented; aromas of apple, Asian pear and lemon meringue open to rich, lingering flavors of stone fruit, honeysuckle, and yellow plum, with finishing notes of vanilla, butter cream and hints of clove.
Idilico Monastrell ’22 Washington $19
Known as Mourvèdre in France, Spanish monastrell typically has notes of dark cherry, pepper, and a bit of gaminess, bright acidity, and freshness and low alcohol levels. Fermented on the lees and aged in neutral barrels
Rocks of Bawn Cab Sauv ’20 WA $20
Blend from several WA vineyards delivers bright fruit flavors, silky tannins, nice balance and intensity.
Economics of the Heart: Return of the Psychopathic Sadists
…. every culture has its psychopathic sadists…
Human history is to a substantial degree an ongoing war between huge numbers of normal people and a comparatively small number of card-carrying psychopathic sadists. These are people (usually male) who not only lack empathy for the suffering of others, but indeed derive considerable pleasure from causing and witnessing their pain and humiliation.
In a sense it has been the basic working principle of the Heritage Foundation since about 1980 to get US public agencies out of the kindness, support, and compassion business completely– if some people can’t take care of themselves, fook’em. HF are the people who wrote essentially all of the laws and regulations passed by Republican Administrations since 1980, including the handbook for Project 2025.
No one should be surprised that the Republican plan all along has aimed to substantially reduce federal support for the most needy, modestly reduce it for the middle class, increase it generously for the very well-to-do, and increase it enormously for the wealthiest .01% — that small handful that already owns pretty much Everything on the Planet.
Every economic system ever devised periodically encounters some version of the psychopathic sadist leader who deliberately starts wars just to savor the enormous suffering they can cause with their invasion, bombing, destruction, concentration camps, torture, and murder.
We Americans have done it in many places and times, including right now- again! — in the Middle East. Dubya-and-the-Neocons killed thousands in their “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq in 2003 and lots more over the next 20 years of occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan. For what…?
At this moment in history, in front of the whole world, our fake President, together with the angriest, shallow-est, cruelest, fawning-est, mean-sprited-est (!), least-qualified-possible-est, groveling-est (we could go on and on) so-called “Cabinet of advisors” is trying a replay of Dubya’s ‘mission accomplished’ banner after bombing Iraq.
Our nation is expending $billions on what is obviously a “shiny object media distraction” to lure the cameras around the world away from the rapidly escalating likelihood that sometime soon he will face serious charges in the Epstein matter.
In that sense he is no different from his countless dictatorial predecessors across history. He is an old, increasingly disliked and disrespected man in visible physical and mental decline, each day looking increasingly unlikely to survive his term.
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