A poppy seed bagel should never be the impetus of a child welfare investigation.  –  Emma Camp Against Their Will (#321) Authoritarians, like leopards, cannot change their spots: As he seeks to become Oregon’s…attorney general…Will Lathrop has touted his five years leading a…[rescue industry group]’s efforts to e[nslave women in sweatshops] and [abduct their children] […]

In a fully-developed fascist state it isn’t necessary for the government to censor the media or ensure academic cooperation via threats of repression, because those institutions are more than willing to violate every standard of professional ethics in their eagerness to assist in the dissemination of propaganda. –  “The Phoenix Pharisees” It’s a kind of […]

Apparently, the weird weather conditions this year favored certain areas of my property over others; though the blackberry vines which usually yield the best fruit produced little but small berries that were neither very sweet nor very juicy, the vines I typically ignore because they don’t produce well were the fruitful ones this year!  I […]