Hammer Mill Days

What the hell. You mean I can't just stack the bricks like building blocks? I have to cement them together ... with real cement? Jesus, this is harder than I thought. Maybe I'll do the ditch-digging instead. That sounds easy. Oh, hi. Just having a little tête-a-tête with my vocational guidance counselor. Sure, I know what you're thinking - I'm a little long in the tooth to start a new trade, right? Well, if tooth length had anything to do with it, I might try dentistry. No, this is just another of those exercises Big Green runs through from time to time when we're trying to find our asses with both hands. It's kind of an experiment in anarcho-syndicalism, but don't tell the magistrate - it's only the 10th and we've got a dozen demerits already this month. As you know, Big Green is not a company, not a partnership, not a corporation ... not even a non-profit (though we certainly have the financial means to be a non-profit ... meaning we don't ...

With the shit-cyclone rotating around the Trump presidency on a daily basis, it's hard to keep track of what's going on elsewhere in the world. Most of the press coverage goes straight to Trump, Kushner, the Mueller probe, Stormy Daniels, on and on. Mind-numbing, and I think that's probably what they're aiming at. I always knew reality television was more than just bad entertainment - it gave me the creeps from The Real World and Survivor on forward, and now it's president of the United States. Not a good outcome for a whole host of reasons. Anyway, there is a world out there, and stuff is happening in it that I feel we should pay attention to. Here are a few items I'm looking at. Korea - This was a momentous week in the standoff over the Korean peninsula, largely thanks to the efforts of South Korean President Moon Jae-In and the willingness on the part of Pyongyang to come to the table. Trump will take credit for anything good that happens, and that...