Thursday

I heard on MPR yesterday that I shoulda mulched those bulbs I planted.. that once again this year is going to be a bad winter for bulbs. The second year I moved into this house, I bought a bunch of bulbs and planted them all over the yard. About a dozen showed up the next spring. This fall, I planted a hundred daffodils around the yard. I'll have to wait and see how many show up.

Warning From a Student of Democracy's

By CHRIS HEDGES

Published: January 6,
2005

RINCETON, N.J.

"FRITZ STERN, a refugee from Hitler's Germany and a leading scholar of European history, startled several of his listeners when he warned in a speech about the danger posed in this country by the rise of the Christian right. In his address in November, just after he received a prize presented by the German foreign minister, he told his audience that Hitler saw himself as 'the instrument of providence' and fused his 'racial dogma with a Germanic Christianity.'"