Just wait for the bull around the 250th.

Pointing out hypocrisy, trying to shame these people, has no impact. They aren’t hungry. Those “other people” may be, but so?

The Hoover Institute types saw how the Great Depression enabled FDR to change the government in fundamental ways. Perhaps they think a new depression will allow them to do the same.

I think we’re actually well set to ride this particular Trump tax out. Lots of great local brewers in New England. That said, aluminum cans will cost more.

Very cool! You invest in science from the public treasury and public health improves. Who’d a thunk it?

Not to mention they have the nuclear launch codes.

I also recommend the New England Peace Pagoda in Leverett MA. dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-...

Dick, thank you for your service, but we’re not playing the game we all have played since the 1950’s.

Power is the only thing this administration understands.

As Molly Ivens put it, “If his IQ was any lower, we’d have to water him twice a day.”

This made me think of a Frost poem. Except for setting they’re very different, but both excellent. Now is mud season here. Dirt roads turn to deep troughs of wet cement if it’s above freezing, and harden in rough ridged gullies when it drops below. Sprin is coming! frostplace.org/wp-content/u...

To be clear, as FTT says, it’s RT not JT - Ryan, John’s brother. His going to BC bothers me much more than Makar. RT says to me ‘I think BC’s better than UMass.’ I’ve heard TM was encouraged to move on, and it looks to have worked out.

Mad River Glen is 3 miles away and probably easier for the Secret Service to secure. (You also have to be a good skier to handle it.) But they're free spirits there - the only skiing co-op in the country - and this is their sign today.

(photo @Kmoboston25O)

It’s a sliding scale from parasitic to mutualistic, depending on the orchid species. In some cases, the fungus gets nutrients as well as a place to live. But orchids generally eat the fungi in them sooner or later. Also, the Ghost Pipe requires a fungus to mediate its parasitism on trees.