lummi island wine tasting nov 13-14, ’26
This weekend open Friday & Saturday 4-5:30 pm
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Le Pave d’autrefois – aka “old paving stones.” This ciabatta-like bread is less “shaped” than simply divided into squares – hence the paving stones name. Made with a mix of bread flour, fresh milled whole wheat, rye, and buckwheat flours for lots of hearty whole grain goodness. -$5/loaf – $5/loaf
Whole Grain Spelt Levain- mimics a Latvian bread I had several years ago that I have tried to recreate. It is made with a sourdough levain of freshly milled whole wheat and whole spelt before mixing with bread flour, dried apricots, golden raisins, slivered almonds, sunflower and flax seeds.- $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Traditional Croissants – Made with a levain and prefermented “old dough” – where a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast is fermented overnight. The final dough includes more flour, butter, milk and sugar, and laminated with more butter before being cut and shaped into traditional french croissants. 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Willamette Valley Vineyards Oregon Blossom Sparkling Rose Oregon $18
88% Pinot Noir, 12% Muscat from Willamette Valley grapes, this slightly sweet sparkler bursts with bright notes of cherry, strawberry and melon; great pairing with ham and cheese croissants, watermelon/ feta salad, goat cheese crostini, or …??
Goose Ridge g3 Red ’20 Washington $14
Syrah-cab-merlot blend; supple ripe plum and blackberry notes with hints of spice, vanilla, black currant and Bing cherry; nicely balanced with a lush, round mouth and a long, lingering finish.
Angels & Cowboys Proprietary Red ’22 California $22
Attractive nose of red berries, orange peel, spices, and crushed stone; medium to full-bodied and succulent, with silky, mellow tannins and flavorful finish.
Economics of the Heart: And Now…the Grand Finale with the Dimmest and the Worst
the first Heritage Foundation enabler
One single, defining, landmark moment marked the deliberate transition of the Republican Party away from one which valued national security, a strong national defense, supportive tying agreements with our WWII allies in Europe and Asia, and a social safety net for the handicapped, the aged, and the needy. Instead, under the influence of the emergent “Heritage Foundation,” it coordinated a broad shift toward increasing the concentration of wealth and political power into the hands of fewer and fewer ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations.
That moment was in 1980 when Heritage adopted aging actor and former California governor Ronald Reagan as its hand-puppet-President who would sign off on thousands of pages of their already pre-written legislation to start shifting government away from the social safety nets, investments, and transfer payments that had long allowed even the neediest among us some level of economic and social security. Instead, the system was increasingly designed to concentrate wealth and power into the hands of a shrinking number of increasingly wealthy, self-entitled, and vaguely autistic individuals.
Their approach to policy was, I thought, nicely summed up in a cartoon I had drawn years ago where a little girl in the kitchen with her mother asks, “ Mommy, is it true that Republicans have Hearts of Stone..?” And her mother replies sincerely, “No dear, of course not….Republicans don’t have hearts.”
That 80’s shift drove the legislation of the Reagan administration to concentrate more and more wealth into the hands of a handful of billionaire capitalists, at the expense and chagrin of what had been a growing middle class. Similar movements over centuries had shown how authoritarian control of societies could be maintained by rigging elections so the dictators always won, imprisoning or disappearing dissidents, keeping the average income of citizens at poverty levels, and maintaining a constant on-air false narrative defining “Reality” as whatever they were told to believe.
Autocrats are motivated by personal greed, a deep need for personal entitlement, and a continuing perverse pleasure in making others suffer. Throughout human history, a common denominator of authoritarianism across the planet was the core belief that the best political and economic structure of society provided subsistence level poverty for the masses and unchecked accumulation of wealth, authority, and autonomy, to a handful of mean-spirited, emotionless, and self-entitled Scrooges.
The last few days have shown a widespread sense of hope and joy across the nation as Maga has been so broadly rejected across the country. It comes as something of a Revelation to see the Tweetster go into Full Denial mode (as after his 2020 loss) claiming the election was rigged, vowing to resist and prevail, and bringing back to the forefront of his so-called “Administration” the always-yelling and never-listening Representatives, Senators, and Cabinet Secretaries who made his first term a 24/7 sh*t show.
So here we are, moments after an unmistakable come-uppence for a disastrous two years in office that have distanced us from our traditional allies, joined Net-in-Yahoo in a disgusting and heart-breaking genocide against already long-suffering Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Cubans, Venezuelans, and lately of course, Iranians school children. Oh, and we haven’t even talked about ICE, the murders, the deportations, beatings, family separations, and outright disappearings of immigrants needing a safe haven.
One would think this would be a time for some inner reflection, but no, no, no Monsieur, this Satan would never miss an opportunity to do something even more despicable, hateful, and cruel. In this case, always happy to showcase his complete lack of humanity, he appoints his brother-in-cruelty Stephen Miller as his Chief of Staff, digs up always-angry-too-loud Congressmen Jim Jordan and
And now to top it all off, he is doubling down on all of it by putting Satan himself (Jim Jordan) as House Minority Leader in the new Congress in January.
All you need to know is that the grift, the lying, the incoherent nonstop meaningless meandering monologue, the whole insane trip, will continue. Or, as the old line put it, “the beatings will continue until morale improves.”
So bring on the Epstein files, the Congressional investigations, the 25th amendment, the hearings. Dump Hegseth and bring back our trained military leadership.
We can all feel it…the reclaiming of America is now officially underway!
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