People who lack jobs do not pay taxes: For jobless people, a tax cut is irrelevant.  For the middle class, retaining a job and a home are of primary importance.  Nonetheless, in the last eight years, the middle class has suffered from policies that profit the rich and diminish the mid… Read full post »

My list of 25 pays homage to past posts from some other OSers.
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Greenhouse interior, viewed from my former dining room

 1.    When we were young, my o’sister and I occa/… Read full post »

The annual King Mango Strut is a year-end parade.

No, let me qualify that: The King Mango Strut is an irreverent, generally outrageous community event in Coconut Grove, Florida, a coastal community that prides itself on an independent, tongue-in-cheek, middle-finger-erect attitude.  The parade o… Read full post »

I edited the title once I realized that many posts were similarly entitled only "OS Collage", making it difficult to see who was who on the activity feed.

 To those of you who may question whether this title is simply pandering to the purient, just take a look. Do… Read full post »

Although I love the new balance of Blue and Red in our electoral map, as a picture of the real America, much less as a picture of the change-to-come, it seems far from the reality.  Each state actually has major scattered mixtures of red and of blue.  But, As Obama has… Read full post »

So, I proudly mailed in my absentee ballot, even taking it to the post office personally to check the postage needed (yes, two stamps), and then left town for a week, only to return to a letter from Miami-Dade elections, saying that my application for an absentee ballot was… Read full post »