Still on the road . . .
Thursday, March 12, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Strong Southerlies bring a mild, sunny, mid 60's Spring day to TulseyTown today.
What makes you think the river isn't singing?
James Taylor is 78 today. The singer/songwriter was born in 1948, Boston, Massachusetts.
Liza Minnelli is 80. The actress, singer, dancer and multiple award laureate was born in 1946, Hollywood, California.
It's the birthdate of playwright Edward Albee. He was born in 1928.
And, Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922 Lowell, Massachusetts.
The fate of the First Amendment. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Trump needs Robert's new hearing aids. – Robert Reich, My Marvelous New High-tech. On substack today.
Trump's cabinet officially becomes a cabal of cowardly clowns with shoes to match. – Miles Taylor, Defiance, 3.11.26
Not the sex you see in movies. Redefining beyond the norm. For women [and men]. Luminescence, 3.11.26
All this life and love and strife and failure—is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? – W.E.B Du Bois.
Galactic memory . . .
Wednesday, March 11, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . a mostly cloudy morning is forecasted to give way to a partly cloudy, windy afternoon in TulseyTown with wind chill in the 50's. Strong Northerlies are predicted througout the day, easy by evening.
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose birthday was today in 1952, Cambridge, England.
It is also the birthday of Rupert Murdoch who is 95 today. The publisher magnate was born in 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
And the silent film star Dorothy Gish was born on this day in 1898, Massillon, Ohio.
On this day in 1811, in Ar-nold, Nottingham, textile workers staged the first major Luddite riot in England, breaking the machinery that was causing their displacement; the protest launched a movement that spread throughout the country. Luddites were not opposed to the use of machines per se (many were skilled operators in the textile industry); their issue was with organized manufacturers who were trying to circumvent standard labor practices of the time.
All we have is the present, and this is our practice in life, to keep returning to this moment even as it passes, just like looking out the train window, frame after frame. – Susan Moon, writing in “The Way of the Rails,” Tricycle.
You will remember
that time was like never and always:
We go where nothing is expected
and find everything waiting there. — Pablo Neruda, Time, in The Marginalian.
Why we are so “down” on each other. . .
Tuesday, March 10, 2026. It's Tiw's day … Strong Southerlies bring another warm low 80's afternoon to TulseyTown today. Slight rain chances are indicated for the afternoon and evening.
Remember: love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. Choose to entertain no substitutes for love.
Clare Boothe Luce was born today in 1903 New York City. She was an American playwright, politician, and celebrity, noted for her satiric sense of humour and for her role in American politics.
Bix Beiderbecke was born in 1903, Davenport, Iowa.
Playwright and novelist David Rabe is 86 today. He was born in 1940 Dubuque, Iowa.
It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
In Need to Know, David Rothkopf called out the madness of the fact world trade and global security is being shattered by a single man. “Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.”
Americans are way out front of other nations on the we-hate-our-compatriots scale. – Robert Reich, Why do we dislike each other?, on substack 3.10.26
The choice…regardless of where we fall on the left-right spectrum … isn't left/right but top/bottom. The real fight we face isn’t with each other but with those who lord over us by manipulating the political system to advance their ends at our expense. – Democratic Senate nominee from Texas James Talarico.
Sunday night, Stephen Colbert accepted the Walter Bernstein 2026 Writers Guild Award. He took CBS/Paramount to the woodshed, and let us in on 'the beautiful sound.'