by Dan | Jun 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Written on June 10, 2019, as part of a project I was thinking about doing for all the significant Democratic candidates. I thought the better of that, but decided to publish this in response to a friend’s question about Biden’s electability. — dc...
by Dan | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
A frequent trollish participant on a friend’s Facebook page left this comment the other day:” Also we have yet for anyone to nail down exactly how Russia ‘interfered’ with our election. Some Russian computer geeks paid for some ads on Face...
by Dan | Jun 13, 2019 | Random Xarking
Politicians, even the good ones, lie from time to time, and sometimes with good reason: Remember how Jimmy Carter tried to tell us the truth, and we repaid him with mockery and defeat? Governments lie, too. But then again, so do companies, and coaches, and churches,...
by Dan | Mar 30, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Featured
One of the new things we’re trying in Year Three here at stately Black Sheep Manor is a seed-starting system based on a U.K. technique called “soil blocking.” My stepfather, Michael Sasser, gave me his soil blocking equipment in the winter of...
by Dan | Feb 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Major League Soccer celebrated its continuing rise toward adequacy in 2015 with a new, simple, clean logo. It’s not without its detractors, but as league logos go, it’s decent (seriously: Go look at the Bundesliga and Serie A logos). Would that the...
