"If war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, perhaps it will also serve as a lesson to Trump. ... Other places and other people are real, possessing their own agendas and agency — and America’s actions have consequences it cannot control."
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Waiting for the Dust Bowl Faeries at Caffe Lena
They play “gothic folk music”
Jayson Tatum emerges for his first warmup of the season
There are other people in Maine. Other guys! My brother-in-law in Hollis Center might make a better candidate.
Is there a healthy fascination with Hitler?
He has a new album out this week under his Johnny Blue Skies moniker, but I thought I'd put this on for old times sake
#NowListening
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Condi Rice at the White House?
But I was told Trump represented a true break from the neoconservatives and their disastrous forever wars.
Breaking news: The Army abruptly canceled a major training exercise, officials said, fueling speculation within the Defense Department that soldiers specializing in ground combat and a range of other missions may be sent to the Middle East.
“Unconditional surrender” was the Allies’ demand in WWII. They backed it up by occupying Germany, Italy and Japan.
Is Trump prepared to send hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy Iran, a nation of 93 million people, and to risk the resulting casualties? If not, this is simply bluster.
Hell yeah!
“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
- Schwab ⛽️
Rock looks great in flannel, too
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly —in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Speaking of the blues, I saw bluesman Keb' Mo' in Troy, NY, last night.
Great concert and Guy telling Reuters that his aim is to “make somebody smile” reminded me of Mo's upbeat and rollicking performance, which left everybody feeling good.
Buddy Guy was one of my favorite things about "Sinners"
www.reuters.com/business/med...
“.. Given the U.S.’s intelligence capabilities, they should have known that a school was in the vicinity,” said Beth Van Schaack, a former State Department official ..
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).
My son’s squad
Lol
Good music for a chilly, rainy day
#NowListening
People were right to be upset at evacuation chaos from Kabul under Joe Biden. Now US citizens across the gulf are stranded as a result of a war Trump started and those voices are where exactly?
Yowza
He really is coming back this season, isn't he?
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/05/s...
WSJ: Trump is preparing to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to advisers familiar with his thinking www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I hope they asked very nicely and make sure to say than you and be appropriately grateful: I’m told these things are very very important.
Joe Biden did it
"One shouldn’t exaggerate the economic fallout from this war. But it isn’t occurring in isolation: There are many stresses on our economy, and this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back — a straw that becomes heavier the longer the war goes on."
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