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Kitchen Table Kibitzing, September 1, 2023: This and That [1]
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Date: 2023-09-01
Stuff keeps happening! Goodness, it’s hard to keep up with all the news. Here are a few snippets from around the web. Please share your own!
From The Oregonian, Portland farm makes dramatic statement with this year’s corn maze (click the link for the aerial view — it’s really cool!)
Bella Organic Farm on Sauvie Island is once again setting a high bar for local corn mazes. Every year, the farm uses its corn maze to say something. Whether it’s support for gender equity or Damian Lillard, Bella Organic is known for making a big – literally, the maze is 7 acres with about 2.7 miles of pathways – statement. This year’s maze has a simple message: “No more silence. End gun violence.”
Dr. Glaucomflecken is offering something all month long, beginning today. I look forward to this!
And here is the first episode! Which won’t embed! (Sorry)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about TFG’s trial in Georgia and the fact that it will be televised if it isn’t moved to Federal Court. And this could all be happening fairly soon! As is discussed in the following video, there is great irony in a reality show charlatan finally getting his comeuppance in the ultimate reality show — his trial — for all to see. Don’t you think the Republican Presidential campaigns might as well take a break while it is going on? Surely, no one will be watching anything else other than the Georgia trial, if it is first to go.
Maybe, just maybe, some of his cult members will fall away from his spell because of the trial in Georgia and the one in DC. Maybe some of these people can be reached. It’s a worry. This video is from April (and so much has happened since!) but it is important. This interview with Dr. Bandy Lee is about an hour and a quarter long but I hope you can find some time for it. It won’t embed but the link is below. Dr. Lee is a forensic psychologist specializing in the pathology of violence and how it is spread. She has a lot to say about “Trump contagion” as a public mental health threat.
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About Mitch McConnell’s health:
x Look: he’s seen all the doctors, including a neurologist, is likely on Keppra or other anti-epileptics, and this is the course he’s chosen — to push on with these events happening, some in the public eye
https://t.co/NEgfYIMUOb — Esther Choo, MD MPH (@choo_ek) August 31, 2023
In today’s WaPo, Dana Milbank advises Don’t you dare rake your leaves this fall (He thinks this will minimize the plague of urban mosquitoes.)
Stop mowing your lawn so often and let it stay shaggy. Don’t rake and bag your leaves this fall. Quit deadheading flowers and cutting back dead stalks. This creates refuges for insects. If your neighbors ask why you’ve let your yard go, tell them you’re saving the planet — for bugs and humans. “Probably the most important thing is to have a messy yard,” Grames counsels. Of course, stop the pesticides. Also skip the fertilizer, and stop washing your car in the driveway to spare macroinvertebrates in nearby streams. Fire your landscaper, if you have one, and use the money you saved to replace some lawn with trees and shrubs, particularly native ones — and ideally ones from nurseries that don’t grow their plants with long-lasting insecticides called neonicotinoids. Turn off exterior lights at night. If you can afford it, buy organic produce to encourage farmers to quit pesticides.
I’ll leave you with a video from Kaz Rowe because I enjoy her explorations of strange facts about the past. And daredevils have always been strange.
The weekend (and a new month!) begins now. Come in, be comfortable, and share your day, your menus, your weekend plans — and internet wanderings! This is an open thread.
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