L’homme Armé

#Cats

Cat-in-the-Box.

It’s bento time!

#Bento #Japan

More springtime friends.

#flowers #Spring

Buckwheat galette (Breton) served in a Florentine style.

#FrenchCooking #Galette #Cooking

I voted for both of them. Would do it again.

Today’s surprise visitor.

#Butterflies #sketch #drawing

“Those who cannot remember the past [correctly] are condemned to make fools of themselves on the internet.”—George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense, 1905

I went for a walk in the cool morning that was winter’s last gasp. Yes, it’s spring. I love autumn and find winter pretty okay. I’m growing to appreciate Spring but will always loathe the blast furnace of summer.

Yesterday the diminutive interstellar visitors left their vessel in a self-propelled land craft. The planet’s apex predators were curious…

#Caturday

We didn’t fall. MAGA shoved us off the cliff into the howling, soul-sucking abyss with maniacal glee and self-loathing hatred.

This is the content of the Blue Book Bag of Politics (and Manners).

#Renaissance #Literature #Manners

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32 ALT: a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

Ouch….

Also,

Francesco, what is best in life?

"There is nothing in life that a man should more desire, or that brings him greater glory, than to see his enemy prostrate in the dust and at his mercy."

Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections, c. 1530

The guy I wanted won our primary and will take on either our corrupt attorney-general or our Trumpist incumbent. Good times.

Why aren’t we hunting down ICE?

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia”, Vizzini warned. It’s one of “the classic blunders”.

“A house divided…”

I’ll use their vote but, otherwise, feck them.

Every time.

Everything I can think to say is inappropriate anger at the administration for which they died or the senseless loss they represent. This is not the place.

And, so, rest in peace my siblings.

I think that 20% of Americans may be fopdoodles, mooncalves, dolts, idiots, dullards or fools.

“This” being our infighting, not the original comment….

This. This is why we lose. We lose sight of the greater goal. Some will stay home in November because they’re butt-hurt that their candidate didn’t win the primary. And we may again end up with Cornyn. Or Paxton.

Folks, what’s the mission?

In related news, 20% of Americans appear to be gudgeons, idiots, fools, fustilarians, mooncalves, clodpolls, fopdoodles, dullards, ninnyhammers, or dolts.

Sadness.

Niccolo Machiavelli, Francesco Guicciardini and Balthazar Gracian

And all we talk about is religion and politics

I once practiced the arts of war in service of its goddess. In time I found her to be a cruel and hideous mistress bent upon the destruction of all whom she encountered—friend and foe alike. She is no genii to be allowed heedlessly into the world but should be kept imprisoned away from us all.

Despite the chaos of our current day, Spring is here—renewal…another partial turn of the great Wheel of Life.

#Spring #flowers #renewal