lummi island wine tasting April 24 ’26
Open Friday 4-6 pm
stahtin’ ta get crowded again ’round heah…!
Friday Bread This Week
Dried Cranberry Walnut – Made with a nice mix of bread flour and freshly milled buckwheat and whole wheat flours. Orange juice and olive oil are a unique combination in this bread that add flavor and keep a soft crumb, then loaded up with dried cranberries and toasted walnuts. Makes great toast– $5/loaf
Sesame Semolina – Uses a sponge pre-ferment made with semolina and bread flour and a soaker of cornmeal, millet .sesame seeds, and a little olive oil for lots of great flavors. $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Muffins – Two each Chocolate and Sesame Semolina muffins in every order – 4 muffins for $5. If you want a double order you will get 8 muffins. If you order one flavor, you will get both. 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
MAN Chenin Blanc ’24 South Africa $14
Free-run juice preserves a crisp, clean, natural character; light, bright flavors of quince, pear, and pineapple, palate of fresh stonefruit and apple, and a round, soothing mouthfeel.
Wolftrap Red ’24 South Africa $14
Consistently appealing aromas and flavors of ripe plum, red currant, violets, Italian herbs and exotic spices; vibrant flavors of dark berries and spicy plum with hints of orange peel that linger on a juicy finish. (read more)
Matchbook Red Gravel Cab ’22 California $17
Medium-bodied white wine with dense texture, rich, elegant aromas, and succulent flavors of pineapple, lemon zest, chamomile, sea salt, stone fruits, and a bright, tangy acidity, pleasing creamy texture, and deep flavors!
Economics of the Heart: “Dress Rehearsal Rag”
Let’s start with the basics: how does a group select its leaders? What are the qualities that evoke enough trust and confidence in someone to give them power of life and death over yourself, your nation and all its rules, directions, policies, and outcomes. No doubt we each have our own lists, but to some degree, humans being what they are, and for most of the last 250 years, the criteria have overlapped to a substantial degree in the nation’s electoral base.
As we have discussed before, the two glaring exceptions were the Civil War, when the question of slavery bitterly divided our nation, and since 1987, when the Reagan administration adopted completely the playbook of the Heritage Foundation to take the country back to the pre-crash and pre-New Deal concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a small group of ultra-rich white men.
In a nutshell, that’s how we, the most powerful, wealthy, and democratic nation on Earth, has transferred control of our national government not to the “brightest and best,” as our Constitutional rules have generally insured, but to a tiny minority of ultra-wealthy white men who, like the Southern plantation owners, seem intent on making the rights of everyone else in the world completely subject to their whims of the moment.
Republican leaders at every level in our national and many state governments, from the White House down, have thrown away the Constitution completely. Despite losing countless lawsuits in every state, federal policies are ignoring laws, precedents, and the Constitutional rights of citizens, immigrants, visitors, nonwhites of every shade as their Gestapo rounds up, imprisons, tortures, and ‘disappears’ tens of thousands of people who have actual rights to protection from such abuse.
Our country has abandoned our long alliance with Europe, and turned its loyalties toward competing oligarchies, like Austria (oops!), China, North Korea, and Russia. Our present aggression against Iran in league with long-time sadist Netanyahu takes our international reputation down several more notches.
Indeed, our entire military structure has been systematically downgraded from a long history of being the best-led, best-trained, and best-equipped in the world to shameful, unethical, cruel, and heartless missions like murdering boatloads of “smugglers” in international waters; invading Venezuela, kidnapping its leader, and commandeering its resources; and systematically retiring our most experienced and most respected military leaders and replacing them with less qualified and less ethical subordinates.
In the song above by Leonard Cohen, it is easy to imagine the Tweetster as the intended listener, but really it is aimed at Maga supporters at every level. The sad part is that lots of them are incapable of the modest degree of critical thinking necessary to smack their foreheads and exclaim “this is CRAZY!”
The more positive part is that every day more and more people are seeing it’s ALL been a scam since the 2015 stairway…all of it…just a Dress Rehearsal Rag — and it’s time for it to stop!
link to Dress Rehearsal Rag audio
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