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Gasoline price hit $2.29 today in our town. Wrong on so many levels, but interesting that when I filled up my family's VW bus in 1969 for a date, the cost was about the same in real terms. My question: when do we tumble to the con they are putting over on the REAL cost of oil?
Inflation calculator shows a $0.25/gallon price in 1969 equates to about $2.21 in today's dollars
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Your moment of New Mexico Zen, courtesy of the Gila National Forest, home of the first designated wilderness in the world, thanks in large part to the problematic Aldo Leopold (another story)...
A rocky, narrow "box canyon" with yellow sandstone reflecting the sun and white limestone lining the stream bed in the foreground. There are cottonwood trees in the near distance, and other trees beyond on the slope above. The stream at this point is shallow and placid-looking, but you can see evidence of ferocious flash flooding as well.
October 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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From Substack...
October 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Anyone objecting to comparisons between the current Trump-commanded crackdown on comedic free speech and the Nazi regime's identical approach need to actually read history. This from the NY Times (available via their archive search):
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I thought this was what everyone aspired to.

Guess they showed me, huh.
July 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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No doubt others have covered this, but I just found out that on July 23 the official government account of DHS posted this blatantly racist, white supremacist tweet filled with winks and nudges. Where are the calls for investigation? 😱
This is a reproduction of a famously racist, propagandistic painting showing white settlers taming the continent and driving wildlife and Indigenous people before them into the "dark and wild" part of the continent. The post itself contains racist signals like 14 words, HH for Heil Hitler, A and D capitalized for "1" and "4" and so on
July 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Great pic, nice bike. KLR? I ride Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo country here in northern NM. Santa Fe also has an old internment camp site; they sent only male "criminals" to that one, so that's something the current GOP copied. "Save your Confederate money, boys, the South shall rise again!" 🙄
Adventure-style motorcycle parked on a rocky, dry riverbed. A large iron train trestle crosses overhead, and you can see the scrubby piñon-juniper landscape beyond the bridge.
July 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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It seems so clear. How could so many people get it so wrong?
July 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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These are the most frightening words I have ever read from a US President.
June 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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World's largest "WANTED!" poster, or yet another clear admission that MAGA = DICTATORSHIP...?
Photograph of the USDA headquarters building in Washington, DC. It has a columnar façade, with three stories of windows behind the columns. Between two columns at the right of the picture is a 30-foot (or so) tall banner bearing the USDA letters and a slogan we can't read from this distance, over a reproduction of a photo of Abraham Lincoln. He is seen from the ribs up, and the image is about 20 feet tall. On the left, workers are just finishing installing another giant banner between two columns. This one has some obscured printing at the top, but the bulk of the banner is a reproduction of Trump's glowering booking photo. It is sized to be larger and more imposing than the photo of Lincoln. The overall effect is of a dictatorship like Russia or North Korea or Iran.
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Michael DeAdder on Substack nails it again...
Drawing resembling the US Presidential Seal, but with a chicken replacing the eagle, Donald Trump's face inside the chicken mask, and a scroll saying "Boc...Boc...Boc" over his head. The seal reads: TRUMP ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT
May 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Further annoying "traditionalist" Catholics, Pope Leo is demonstrating what actual Christianity looks like...
May 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Oh yes! Looks like ours! (Sangres west of Las Vegas NM)
Mesa with trees silhouetted in front of an orange-hued sky with clouds and contrails making a design in light and shadow
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, NM is a popular scuba training spot, but the general public can swim there too. 84 feet deep, and connected to a 200-foot deep aquifer, constantly refreshed.
Photo of an open-air pool with a scuba-diving class clustered at the far end. There are two sets of four floats arranged in squares, one red, and one white; they are tethered to square platforms visible underwater, 33 feet down. There are spectators standing around, and a convention center building in the background Photo of a scuba diver in water ranging from clear to turquoise to deep blue, depending on depth. The diver is partially submerged and wearing a black wet suit with black flippers, a black hood, and a red inflatable vest and has a pair of yellow scuba tanks on their back
May 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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One of my favorite cartoonists hits the sweet spot again...
Cartoon of an elf on a flat rock in a winding stream surrounded by forest. He's raising his thumb and saying "Like"
May 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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A moment of visual respite, courtesy of the campground at Pie Town, New Mexico
Picture of a wooden picnic table. Any stain or color has faded, and the wood grain is accented by a mottled lighting pattern from trees. The ground is reddish and sparsely covered in winter grasses
May 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Something I concocted from an AI graphic someone posted 🖖
AI-generated picture of Donald Trump with greenish skin and hair, looking like the Grinch, with a quote from him about how children will have to make do with fewer toys due to his tariffs
May 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The latest legal fantasy from the snake oil administration is that it's okay to violate due process if it's too hard to ensure. (No wonder the felon wants to force reputable lawyers to work for him, since all he can get is the dregs of the profession. Their motions will be studied for comedy gold.)
April 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM