Hit & Run Blogging

May 29, 2008

Sorry, life got in the way of blogging (again). And, besides, I was kind of enjoying the private emails about my dream post. Jeez, you people can certainly come up with some wild theories about what’s going on in my mind.

I hate to spoil all the fun but what’s been going on in my mind is fanciful thoughts about our garden. Oh yeah, and there’s all that work in the garden, too. And what’s been going in my mouth is bite after bite of delicious spinach and other salad greens that are loving the cool weather and the sun – although a little rain would be nice, too.

Take this, you sloths: We’re eating fresh greens galore. The peas are about a foot high and clinging nicely to the fence. One hundred and fifty strawberry plants are in the ground and looking marvelous. The onions and garlic look grand. The first planting of carrots, radishes, beets, beans, edamame, potatoes and – yes, indeed – corn (!) are complete. The seedlings of tomatoes, cukes, peppers, winter squash and melons hit the soil this weekend.

Politics? Who gives a shit about politics? Not I.

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Wait, I take that back. Isn’t there some kind of announcement about politics today? Oh yes, Vermont’s Teflon loser, Anthony Pollina, is going to be announcing which losing path he’s going to continue down during the upcoming campaign season. According to the fawning Vermont media that can’t seem to spill enough ink on Pollina’s losing ways, he will either be announcing today that he’s going to continue in his three-way race for governor – thus assuring another lopsided loss – or he will be dropping out of that race and, instead, be entering the lite guv race, thus assuring a loss of that race AND his principles since it would require a deal with the devilish Dems. But, as we all know by now, principles and winning are foreign concepts to the Pollina crowd – just ask the farmers at Vermont Milk Company who didn’t get paid while Pollina was out raising “pledges” of 100k for his latest political ego trip. Speaking of those farmers, I noticed that the Pollina campaign announced that they’d be giving away “free ice cream” at his rally today. I guess it’s easy to give away ice cream you never paid the farmers for, huh? It’s the liberal way: Take from the poor and give a little of it back to the poor. Nice.

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Speaking of bullshit, can anyone tell me what happened with that whole 1% for Peace campaign Ben & Jerry’s marketed for years? Perhaps they need to bump up the percentage a bit because it sure seems like it’s not working. Besides, if only 1% is for peace, does that imply that the other 99% isn’t? Just wondering.

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Whew. We made it. No, not through the holiday weekend. But, rather, through the cultish gathering better known as Vermont’s Democratic State Convention. Ew, that was ugly. But it doesn’t appear as though they ran out of Kool-Aid for the faithful. Drink up, my friends, forget about all the real issues, don your Obama cheerleader look, and keep cheering wildly for the same…old…shit. If you’re lucky, Philip Baruth may loan you his Obama blow-up doll for the evening.

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A Daughter’s Note

Our daughter and her friend headed out to the woods over the weekend while her parental units went for a walk. Being the responsible 10-year old that she is, she left us a note. Here it is: “We went to my campsite. You can come join us or not. If we never come back you can tell someone.”

Needless to say, she came back. But I’m still telling “someone” about her note.

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I was inside doing paper work the other day while listening to the radio in the background. The station? WDEV, of course. So I got to hear Mark Johnson play footsie with Bernie Sanders – sans callers (hmm, how did that happen?). And then it was onto Wingnut Radio – True North, for you true believers. My activities came to a semi-halt when I heard the same-old, same-old caller, “John from Barre,” announce that he was finishing up his new bumper sticker: “I brake for moose but swerve for tree-huggers.” This was followed by chuckling all around, from the host, Paul Beaudry, and his guest, the equally Neanderthalistic, Steve McCloud. Say what? And so the dialing began. My call went something like this:

Me: “What do you call someone who uses his or her car to inflict harm on others?”

Paul Beaudry: “Oh, I think I’ve heard this one…but I can’t remember.” [Editor’s note: Did he really think I was beginning some kind of sick joke?]

Me: “I believe you would call that person a terrorist, right?”

PB: “Yes, if the person was trying to harm someone one.”

Me: “Okay, so can you tell me what was so funny about ‘John from Barre’s’ bumper sticker advocating vehicular terror against environmentalists right here in Vermont?”

PB: “Ah, yeah, ah, well, yeah, ah…”

Sick bastards.

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Now get back to work.

Posted by M. Colby | Filed Under blog 

Comments

3 Responses to “Hit & Run Blogging”

  1. Raymond Shaw on May 30th, 2008 1:23 pm

    Sure you don’t want to run for office?

  2. crispy on June 1st, 2008 12:40 am

    Do you, by any chance, sit on your front porch swatting flies and yelling at kids to get off your lawn?

  3. M. Colby on June 1st, 2008 8:05 pm

    Lawn? What lawn? Actually, I swat at the kids and yell at the flies. I can’t get anything right…

    Oops, I guess that answers Raymond’s question, too: Yes, I’m sure (for now).

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