lummi island wine tasting may 29 ’26
Open Friday from 4-6 pm
the ski trail down from the Moon…??
Friday Bread This Week
Multi Grain – A prefermented portion of the flour, water, salt & yeast is mixed and fermented overnight before mixing with bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat, rye, plus some cornmeal, flax, sunflower and sesame seeds for a bit of crunch and extra flavor.- $5/loaf
Rosemary Olive Oil – Also made with pre-fermented dough. Mixed the next day with bread flour and freshly milled white whole wheat for additional flavor and texture. Fresh rosemary from the garden and olive oil to make for a nice tender crumb and crisp crust. $5/loaf
…and pastry this week…
Traditional Croissants – Made with both a levain and prefermented “old dough – where a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast is fermented overnight before adding flour, butter, milk and sugar, before being cut and shaped into traditional french croissants. Some people say these are the best they have ever had! –2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Cannonball Chardonnay ’22 Calif $16
Nose of pear, pineapple, citrus, and stone fruit; medium bodied, smooth palate; polished style with hints of oak; partial malolactic fermentation and lees-stirring adds a pleasing rounded texture.
Idilico Tempranillo ’21 Washington $19
Aromas of leather, forest floor, and balsamic notes wrapped around a core of red fruit, notes of fresh dried herbs, sweet spice and red currant; medium bodied with juicy mouthfeel, soft tannin, and a lingering finish.
Catena Malbec’23 Argentina $ 16
Leads with an elegantly perfumed, juicy bouquet accented with turned-earth aromas; precise, vibrant texture, and high-toned finish with a savory, sturdy core.
Economics of the Heart: Republican Parodies of “Masculinity”
As a seasoned combat veteran and oyster farmer who speaks plainly and directly, Maine’s Graham Platner* holds indisputable credentials as a “man’s man.” He is running against incumbent Susan Collins for US Senate in this year’s election. At the moment he is leading her in some polls.
Platner’s candidacy comes at a particularly interesting political moment after decades of nonstop Republican chest-pounding have expended so much political and $$ capital defining themselves as “Real Men,” which they seem to define as ignorant loudmouths like the Tweetster and the personal, post-integrity, and intelligence-challenged servants in his Cabinet.
Charlie Kirk made himself famous — and, sadly, a target– as the leader of a movement designed at least in part to demoralize young men about their prospects in today’s world. His mission was to convince them that Real Masculinity meant marriage to a stay-at-home housewife who would have and raise large numbers of his wonderful babies while breadwinner Dad was out in the world every day working hard to make ends meet. That’s just what guys DO, right…?
This sort of eyebrow-raising fictional nostalgia was part and parcel of millennia of religious dominance– and even cruelty–to women and girls over many centuries and cultures. You wonder why the Equal Rights Amendment, even after many years, never became part of Constitution? Because enough men were insecure enough to somehow believe that equal rights for women would somehow eunuch-ize them..? Really??
In a certain way this anti-feminine plank in Republicanism widely touted by Kirk and others encouraged large numbers of young men to embrace their unquestioned right– duty, even– to completely dominate the family household. Women were properly condemned to a sort of imprisonment as obedient household servants who would certainly not need higher education (though these days well over half of college grads are women) making them in a strange way the opposite of the eunuchs of old, whose castration made them safe servants to the family.
In like manner, the anxieties of young Republican men have been purposefully stoked by a mythical image of masculinity as the achievement of successful employment, marriage, and home ownership as their very simplistic “aspirational version of the future.”
Obviously a lot of young male voters fell for this nonsense in 2024, and many are indeed still victim to it. Many harbor a sort of anger at women over it, a crisis of confidence in themselves, or some weird kind of peer pressure. It has the feel of any intentional project of right-wing media, fundamentally sexist, abusive, narrow-minded, and cruel.
At the same time, more and more young voters are waking up to these facts every day. This article in today’s NYT discusses these issues at some length, concluding with data from extensive text conversations with some 35,000 college voters, and inding that… “the Gen Z voters they surveyed cared most about corruption and perceived authoritarianism by Mr. Trump, the economy, and the war on Iran. Respondents were concerned about gas prices felt that Mr. Trump had abandoned his promise to avoid foreign entanglements.” nyt
All of this is being underscored in the US Senate candidacy, in my home State of Maine, of Graham Platner, a “man’s man” if ever we have seen one. A Marine vet of three tours in Iraq, an Army vet of a tour in Afghanistan, a Maine oysterman, and pretty much a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) kind of guy, Platner is running for US Senate against Susan Collins, who for 30 years now has held the seat previously held by Bill Cohen* from ’79-’97.
* curiously I am unable to get links to any photos of Mr. Platner online that I can successfully use on this page.
*personal note: In the 60’s my older sister was a legal secretary in Bill Cohen’s brief pre-political stint as a Bangor lawyer; his brother was my HS classmate; and everyone who ever watched young Bill play basketball way back in the late 50’s came away thinking “how did he DO that…?”
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