Doing what we can . . .

Thursday, October 1, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . Rain, clouds, 70's … the Fall transition is under way. Northerlies return this evening to TulseyTown and GreenCountry.

The only poll that really matters is when votes are counted on November 3. Turnout is critical and it’s also important to remember that not everyone around you may be registered to vote, and not everyone has a plan. That means there’s work for all of us to do; this is the time to do whatever you can do. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse, posted last night.

[The] connections between the higher prices Americans are paying and the corruption of the Trump regime and its Republican enablers need to be widely understood. The richest Americans and biggest corporations have made out like bandits — and average working Americans are paying dearly for what the bandits have stolen. – Robert Reich, The Rot At The Top. 10.1.26

Cowboy mentality. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American. Posted for today

Trump used to buy TV ads to lure gamblers into his casinos and bolster his brand. Now he’s just using your taxpayer dollars.-- Miles Taylor, Defiance.

Today in 1868 "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott was published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston

Julie Andrews is 91 today, born in 1935 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.

And, the laureate actor/singer Richard Harris was born today in 1930 Overdale, 8 Landsdown Villas, Ennis Road, Limerick, Ireland.

Is MacArther Park still melting?