Saturday Evening

Kind of a slow news/blog day.  We've been busy with things around the house and a few errands.  One stop was the farmers' market (of course), where we scored some fresh yellow fin tuna, caught in the Gulf just two days ago!  We're pairing that with some fresh whole wheat pasta and fresh pesto that were part of the wonderful monthly basket of local, organic, food products that we subscribe to.  It's a great program, put together by the gentleman who operates the fresh produce store in the indoor, year-round, market. Also, sitting on the counter in the kitchen, is an interesting little appliance that we're trying out.  It's a highly-automated hydroponic/Aeroponic device that is producing seven very nice herb plants.  It's about the simplest thing I've ever encountered.  You fill the base of it with water, toss in a couple of nutrient tabs, put a seed pod into each of seven holes in the top deck and turn it on. The high power lights kick on, the water starts to circulate through the pods and the darn things sprout in a couple of days and start producing edible herbs in a couple of weeks.  You can, supposedly, grow cherry tomatoes, green beans and snap peas in the darn thing!  Lettuce is next on our list, but we'll get four to six months of production from the herbs, first! 

Now, before I get to work on supper, a post or two for your enjoyment and information.

The View from Sadiyah, Baghdad

What the president calls 'kicking ass' the soldiers call something else. "It's just a slow, somewhat government-supported sectarian cleansing," said Maj. Eric Timmerman, the battalion's operations officer. That describes the situation in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadiyah, formerly a 'bustling middle-class district, popular with Sunni officers in Saddam Hussein's military.' Joshua Partlow spent some time with the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and reported on what he saw. The streets of Sadiyah are deserted again. To the right, power lines slump down into the dirt. To the [...]

“Somebody has to step up here.”

Wisdom in a small-town newspaper, and, I would argue, the best editorial I’ve read this week. From the Port Townsend (WA) Leader. It took common people - farmers, brewers, printers, silversmiths - to write the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights some 218 years ago. And it looks as if it’s up to the [...]

Journalist Wins: NASA To Release Papers on Baffling '65 UFO Incident

NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court.  The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.  Traffic was tied up in the area as [...]

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