BYCU "The English were well known throughout Europe for their addiction to ale and wine and cider. The French were proud, the Germans were obscene, and the English were drunkards. In English monasteries the daily allowance was a gallon (4.5 litres) of strong ale and a gallon (4.

"It is absurd to claim, as a few have done, that the New Deal, the basis of what we now know as “liberalism,” was identical to either German Nazism or Italian Fascism. But it is equally absurd to ignore, as all our textbooks do, the fact that the New

I logged onto my computer this morning and saw this AFP story: Trump defiant on Charlottesville unrest: 'Blame on both sides' [https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-defiant-charlottesville-unrest-blame-both-sides-224328958.html] That's all he's saying: There is a violent left, as well as a violent right. Racism

Miscellaneous Rambling I had only caught snippets of the news here and there after Charlottesville. From what I heard: there was a white supremacist rally, where Gavin McInnes was going to speak (which was flat-out false, but didn't stop Newsweek from saying it); there was a (probably) even

Miscellaneous Rambling Feast of the Assumption today. Or, as our eastern brethren known it in their mysterious ways, "The Dormition of the Theotokos." But if you don't want to celebrate the sleep of the God bearer, you can induce your own sleep at The Church of

Miscellaneous Rambling I'm going heavy cilantro this fall. We have a large Mexican population, with many Mexican stores/restaurants. A Mexican friend approached me and offered to help move it, noting that all the owners go to my church so it's a (super)natural fit. On

> It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. > — HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) August 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/HLMenckenBot/status/895074655735775233]

This is good to see. I can't say non-GMO produce is highly valued in my neck of the woods, but there are a handful of non-GMOers around here and they have taken notice of MAXimum Greens: > Consumer demand for #nongmo [https://twitter.com/hashtag/nongmo?src=hash]

Miscellaneous Rambling If you don't mind doing me a favor, please go to the Maximum Green Twitter [https://twitter.com/GreensMaximum] page and follow Max. We're sitting at eight followers, and that's a bit embarrassing. We don't tweet much, so you won&

The produce site as of last Saturday. Fourteen rows formed and planted. Two to go. The rest of the lot will have to wait until 2018: It's come a long way: My goal: