More On Fall and other rants

While Jazz was out raking leaves and eying that ancient red maple I have been cutting down dahlias. It was a good year for dahlias, beautiful flowers and foliage for several months some almost 6 feet tall. Now it's fall and we have had the first freeze. They are black not green and slimy not crisp. Some of the stocks are 2 inches in diameter. Tomorrow they come and pick up the yard debris so they had to be cleared today. At this time every year I say I'm going to have a yard that requires less maintenance next year. I usually forget by spring.


Now for a bit on Blogs. Jazz had a great post this morning, Beginner's Guide to Bashing. I read it carefully to see how much of the mindless bashing I was guilty of, not too much I think. One of the lefty blogs he mentioned was Daily Kos. Although I still list it on MEJ's links I must admit I rarely visit there anymore. The first lefty blog I go to is The Left Coaster. Although not free of bashing there is a lot less than you find other places and the posts are better thought out. Josh Marshall was wondering this morning that since we call Islamic Fundamentalist Clerics "Radical Islamic Clerics" why don't we call Fundamentalist Christian Clerics "Radical Christian Clerics". Good question, from now on it's Radical Christian Cleric Pat Robertson.