Glass house window washing . . .
Tuesday, October 20, 2026. It's Tiw's day . . . After a late start to the morning, the mailbox forecasts for TulseyTown and GreenCountry appeared as carbon copies (remember them?): Sunshine, some clouds, moderate Southerlies, mid 70's an a slight rain chances. You can hold on to your copies (smudge free) all week. The Orionid meteor shower is peaking tonight and tomorrow.
Democrats can embrace liberalism as a political asset for the first time since before the Reagan era. – Matt Kerbel, “Of Course,” in Wolves and Sheep. Posted yesterday,
Today is the birthdate of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, born on this day in 1854 Charleville, France,
It's also the birthdate of Art Buchwald. The political humorist was born in 1925 Mount Vernon, New York. He prompted today's blog title.
And, It’s the birthday of the man who designed St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The architect Christopher Wren was born in 1632 East Knoyle, England.
Lines For A Sun-Dial
With shadowy pen I write,
Till time be done,
Good news of some strange light,
Some far off sun.
— Alfred Noyes, “Lines For A Sun-Dial,” originally published in The New Morning, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York . 1918. This poem is in the public domain.
A blue wave should do it . . .
Monday, October 19, 2026 It's the Moon's day . . . a warming pattern is settling into GreenCountry, according to 8 a.m. forecasts. Moderate Southerlies, mid 70's and bright sun are in TulseyTown's afternoon.
Today is the day in 1781 that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, effectively putting an end to the American Revolution.
Spy novelist David Cornwell, who writes under the name John le Carré, was born on this date in 1931 Poole, England.
The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance. in Civil Discourse.
After ten years of Trump insisting that reports of his cooperation with Russia were a hoax, here we are, watching one profoundly unpopular man tear apart the global system under which we have lived for eighty years in order to climb into bed with Vladimir Putin. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. Posted for today.
A blue wave should do it. – Robert Reich, The death of the Republican Party. On Substack today.
The present eating the future . . .
Sunday, October 18, 2026. It's Sol's day . . . At 8 a.m. in the Mailbox.
Moderate Southerlies return to the forecasts for GreenCountry and TulseyTown today. An afternoon of sunny skies and upper 60's ahead of a mid-week warming trend.
America makes its choice. – Robert Reich, Sunday Thought.
Wynton Marsalis is 65 today. A renowned American jazz musician, he was born in 1961 New Orleans, Louisiana. His accolades include nine Grammy Awards, and his 1997 oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Blues/Rock guitarist, composer and singer Chuck Berry was born today in 1926 St. Louis, Missouri.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on this day in 1919 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His terms in office (1968–79; 1980–84) were marked by the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, the defeat of the French separatist movement, constitutional independence from the British Parliament, and the formation of a new Canadian constitution with the principal additions of a bill of rights and an amending formula. His son, Justin Trudeau, followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming Canadian prime minister in 2015.
It’s also the birthdate of Lotte Lenya, born in 1898, Vienna, Austria. The Austrian actress-singer popularized much of the music of her first husband, the composer Kurt Weill, and appeared frequently in the musical dramas of Weill and his longtime collaborator Bertolt Brecht. Among them, The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Cabaret.
The Japanese Buddhist scholar and thinker who was the chief interpreter of Zen Buddhism to the West, D.T. Suzuki, was born on this date in 1870, Kanazawa, Japan.
And, the first transistor radio appeared on the market. in just in time for Christmas in 1954. An immediate success, it paved the way for rock and roll.
… the incentives of the [democratic/capitalist] system deliver what the most influential demographic wants, and when they want it, which is now. This short term gratification is The Achilles heel of consumer democracies : There is precious little constituency for the future in the present. – Nathan Gardels, When The Present Eats The Future, Noema. 10.16.26