lummi island wine tasting June 12-13 ’26
Open Friday & Saturday from 4-6 pm
This weekend we are open both Friday (louder)and Saturday ( calmer)
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
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…
Gibassiers – Delicious sweet dough of milk, butter, eggs, olive oil, orange flower water, candied orange peel, and anise seed before brushing with melted butter and sugar. – 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Valminor Albarino Rias Baixas ’22 Spain $23
Straw yellow-green; nose of mandarin orange, lime, apricot, and orange blossom, with fresh, lively, and full-bodied palate, good structure, well-integrated acidity, and a decadent, lingering unctuousness.
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.
Brunelli Martoccia di Luca Rosso di Montalcino ’22 Italy $24
Classic, dignified structure with approachable, wonderfully bright fruit; bright nose of cranberry, cherry, and slate; smooth, integrated tannins, and thoughtful, composed finish.
Economics of the Heart: Matters of Law and Honor
courtesy socialstudieshelp.com
The high bar that has represented the minimum standard for military officers was best summed up in this little essay “The True Gentleman by writer John Walter Wayland way back in 1899. For a very long time every new midshipman at the US Naval Academy has had to memorize it and be able to repeat it (in one breath sometimes!) to any upperclassman who might ask. The text sets an eloquent standard for honor which has been systematically abandoned by Republicans since 1980:
“The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.”
We can go back to George Washington, “the Father of our Country” for a pretty clear model of a “True Gentleman.” After two terms as our first President, he refused to run for a third term, establishing a precedent that only changed briefly with FDR during WWII.
Washington had inherited the family estate and its substantial population of slaves at Mt. Vernon when he was only 11 years old. He became increasingly uncomfortable with his role as slave-owner during the Revolution, the writing of the Declaration of Independence, and later the Constitution. His deliberate refusal to run for a third term set a precedent that lasted until FDR and WWII, and like many of his contemporaries, he became a proponent of church/state separation, believing that religious beliefs are personal and outside the purview of governments.
The current, ongoing Republican coup against U.S. democracy began with the selection of Reagan by wealthy, reactionary Republicans at the Heritage Foundation, who had been in a perpetual rage since the “Black Thursday” stock market Crash of Oct. 24, 1929 and the subsequent election of FDR as President.
These were men of enormous inherited wealth, suffused with a deep sense of personal entitlement and privilege, but who had failed to restore prosperity in the shaky years of the Great Depression. Economic recovery was not based on corporate will or investment, but rather on public subsidies for economic development across the country. Those policies, along with the enormous resource demands of WWII, created jobs, developed industries, and built a global economy which benefited not just the ultra-wealthy, but also laid the foundation for a thriving middle class.
This current moment in the American economy is neither pretty nor promising. The current so-called Federal Government has shifted its focus sharply away from “providing for the common defense, forming a more perfect Union, establishing and maintaining Justice, insuring domestic Tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general Welfare, and securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Instead, the current, ongoing coup is nothing so much as a massive looting of the Federal Treasury to multiplying the wealth of a handful of the world’s richest multi-billionaires even more, while at the same time cutting off or sharply reducing needed financial transfer payments for people who already live at the economic margins of society.
There is on proud display an ongoing cruelty and anger toward the poorest and neediest, including many young immigrant families and children that were actually born in this country. Every day it’s a continuing litany of cruelty against the most needy, exorbitant profits for the rule-makers, and a breathtaking disregard for the suffering of others.
In the case of the Tweester, he just likes to watch people suffer, hear them scream, and enjoy a satisfied smile at their misery. And pretty much the entire Republikan party is right there with him.
WTF is wrong with these people…?
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