Beautiful brilliantly sunshiny day, my very favorite. Talked to sister Betty in the morning, then spent an hour or so weeding the side flower bed. What a chore and I have the other two still to do, but it gave me a good feeling of satisfaction to know I've at least started.
Just as I was coming in, I got a phone call inviting me to to a barbecue. Jumped in the shower, drove up north, and had a wonderful time.
To make the weekend of Memorial Day (I remember when it was called "Decoration Day") complete, I was invited to meet grandson Joel and his gang at the lake today. I said I'd bring lunch, so I must run out to the store after our walk and buy ham and cheese and stuff.
WIDER: Chris Floyd's post today on his "Empire Burlesque" is one of great power and passionite intensity. It includes:
"...we live today in networks given over to death and domination -- rapacious, aggressive, degraded and degrading...We are now hurtling a thousand miles an hour in the wrong direction, deeper into death and degradation, which are no longer resisted, or lamented, or regretted, or even debated, but embraced and celebrated, in a sickening inversion of the 'civilized values' that our degraded, militarist-corporatist system purports to defend."
He goes on to say:
"Nowhere is this better exemplified than in America's current political state, where a warmongering, corporate-coddling political hack who claims the tyrannical power to assassinate anyone on earth or imprison them for life without charges or trial is somehow considered a "progressive," a "liberal," or, god help us, a "socialist" ... while his most vocal and powerful opponents rail against him for not being even more degraded, elitist and death-ridden."
But there's so much more and it must be read in its entirety:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/