Garden Update Part II: The Good the Bad and a Lot of Ugly

...re under all that vegetation. A close look will also reveal a whole lot of baby fennel that, unless something called “weeding” is done, will take over the yard by summer. A greater threat is the asparagus fern (Asparagus aethiopicus) on the right, a vile and invasive plant that is proof of the fallen nature of this vale of tears. The plant in the center is from Annie’s annuals and I can’t remember the name of it. Kelly knows what it’s called but s...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

...and loss. — Richard D. Wolff (@profwolff) June 14, 2019 Decorate the ham, baby pic.twitter.com/DQ7kohx7Xx — 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) June 14, 2019 We painted red bus-only lanes in popular transit corridors so that @Uber and @lyft would have a colorful location to drop off and pickup their rides. pic.twitter.com/eo8jd2LFxM — Militant Pedestrian (@transbay) June 28, 2019 On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens: https://t.co/OMqN8s...

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Alternatives to the Funeral Industrial Complex

...movement. The monks won their court case. And I have a feeling that as the baby boomer generation begins to grasp its own mortality, we’ll begin to see more changes. Either that or the funeral industry will start marketing fake green burials (they probably have already). What prompted this rant was a comment from a Root Simple reader asking if I knew of any green burials in Southern California. I don’t. If any of you know of any alternative funera...

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A Thanksgiving Debriefing

...t ditching the traditional side dishes? They have the taste and texture of baby food. What would happen if we gave the women in our lives a day off and had the men folk do all the work? Women seem to get the brunt of the holiday domestic duties. I suspect I’m preaching to the choir to suggest skipping the consumption nightmare that is “black Friday.” Consider this an open thread on the holiday. What did you do? Did a political debate break out at...

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