lummi island wine tasting july 11-12 ’25
Hours this weekend:
Friday & Saturday 4-6 pm
yin-yang wine glass swirl…what could it mean??!
This week’s wine tasting
Laurenz V Kremstal Sophie Singing Gruner Veltliner $15 Austria
Sustainably produced; youthful nose of orange blossoms, straw, and apples; spritzy on the medium-bodied palate, with notes of yellow grapefruit and a refreshing crisp acidity for a sunny afternoon.
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.
Chehalem Mtn Pinot Noir ’21 Oregon $22
Notes of cherry, blackberry, and red plum open toward jasmine, cardamom, and savory spices; solid, chalky structure, vibrant acidity, and lingering soft red fruit notes.
Economics of the Heart: Humanism vs. Bot-ulism
cc Trump on Mars
Is it coincidence that the current all-out Maggit assault on democracy by white, ultra-wealthy,”Christian” billionaires has as its primary goal the complete eradication of our 250 yr-old Constitutional Democracy? It was, after all, written by a bunch of over-educated and relatively wealthy white men who agreed with all their hearts that all people had inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Everybody knows that in many ways we humans are like all other animals in having ongoing needs for safety, sustenance, shelter, and community (among others) and lives which are largely an ongoing cycle of feeling needs, planning and taking action toward satisfying them, and enjoying some measure of comfort from that satisfaction.
And then, of course, since needs continually arise, this is the essential practice of living for any creature, including human beings, and is the function of every interdependent human community.
Our 250-year adherence to the rules of our Constitution has fostered and sustained an effective interdependent federalism that has been quite stable despite regional and philosophical differences in degrees of exclusion or inclusion of various subgroups over time.
Today we find ourselves in a dystopian Maggit America that is cruelly and heartlessly striving to replace all aspects of our collective humanism with the vapid and selfish pragmatism of ‘Project 2025.” This broad and hateful conspiracy is hereby designated “Bot-Ulism” for the following reasons.
1. “Bot” is short for “Robot.” Bot-Ulism is a set of political rules and behaviors that are not organic to living beings. When applied to human populations they cause disruption, confusion, and punishing interruption of minding our own business, doing our jobs, and living our lives.
2. The past six months have demonstrated clearly that the primary common denominator of Project 2025 is de-humanization. Republican/Maggit policies have been aggressively deployed against immigrants both legal and illegal, disrupting their lives, breaking up families, rounding up and “disappearing” people to foreign prisons or, lately, to gulags in the Everglades.
3. Bot-Ulism has reached epidemic proportion in today’s Republican party, having infected a majority of Congressional members, and spurring their infliction of a long list of inhumane tortures on ordinary citizens and immigrants for no other reason than sadistic cruelty. These include offhand mass firings of competent career federal employees, deliberate breaking of federal laws, ignoring of federal court orders, and sabotaging our national economy, international relationships, and global trust.
4. At root the emerging cult of Bot-Ulism seems driven by anger, hatred, and malice toward any concept of inclusivity of races other than white, ethnicities other than European-American, religions other than evangelical Protestant Christian, or genders other than male.
5. The one bright note of hope is the great handicap of the Bot-Ulists is that they all must time-share the same Bot-infested brain. We are hopeful we will soon see hopeful signs that the infestation will, at best, begin cannibalizing itself out of existence, or morph into a sane, cogent, and responsible form.
Fingers crossed…!
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