In the windmills of his mind

Far longer and far more astonishing than the childcare answer is the answer to this question: “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?” Eight minutes of this ’n’ that.

The New Grown-Ups: “Tom Paine’s Bones”

Our son Ben Leddy is front and center for this one.

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Stopping the Steal

A helpful aid to memory: the new documentary Stopping the Steal (dir. Dan Reed, 2024), about the Republican officials who refused to go along with Donald Trump’s depraved schemes.

But I wish those interviewed had been asked about what they’re going to do in the upcoming election.

Robert Reich has a list

An aid to memory, in the form of a short video from Robert Reich: “The 10 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency.”

Just ten? Just watch.

The New Grown-Ups: “Lonesome Pine”

Our son Ben Leddy is a member of The New Grown-Ups, who just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. That’s a sample above.

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The New Grown-Ups: “William Blake’s Dead”

Our son Ben Leddy is a member of The New Grown-Ups, who just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. That’s a sample above.

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“Cumberland Gap” : “My Heart’s Own Love” : “The Devil’s Nine Questions” : The New Grown-Ups at Bandcamp

Nancy sight lines

In today’s Nancy, Olivia Jaimes plays with Bushmiller’s sight lines.

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[Bushmiller used a - - - - line , not a ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ line.]

Liverwurst’s long goodbye

Boar’s Head (yes, that Boar’s Head) has ended its production of liverwurst. Dan Barry mourns:

We all hold on to things that return us to where we came from, back to a place centered more in time than in geography. A certain doll, a certain television show, a certain snack — they are the lifesavers we cling to as the riptide of the years pulls us farther and farther from familiar shores.

For me, one of those items is, unfortunately, liverwurst.

When I read about the Boar’s Head listeria outbreak and “heavy meat buildup” on meat-plant walls, my first thought was Uh-oh, liverwurst. Still, I feel Dan Barry’s pain. But better nostalgia than listeria.

I haven’t eaten liverwurst in many, many months. But, yes, the “plump, homey, jolly[-]looking sausage” (that’s adspeak) has an OCA Pinboard tag.

Thanks, Ben.

The case of the slipaway sidebar

As you may notice, the OCA sidebar is gone, which means that I’ve likely messed something up in the HTML for a post. Paul Drake is on the case.

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Fixed! A post to the Blogger Help Community has an easy way to spot the source of the problem: open the latest posts one by one until you find a post with the sidebar where it should be. And the post that came after that one (i.e., later in time) will be the culprit. In this case, it was a stray bit of HTML for an image — the annoying div stuff I am almost always careful to delete — that pushed the sidebar to the bottom of the page.

If you’re given to tweaking older posts — a word here, a spacing problem there — you’d best be careful, or you might be opening years of posts to find the problem. DIY: Drake doesn’t work cheap.

The New Grown-Ups: “The Devil’s Nine Questions”

As these videos drop, I’m not going to hesitate to copy and paste:

Our son Ben Leddy is a member of The New Grown-Ups, who just took first in a new-band showcase at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, Maine. That’s a sample above.

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“Cumberland Gap” : “My Heart’s Own Love” : The New Grown-Ups at Bandcamp