Category Archives: Friends

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    By Frank Paynter | Published: September 28, 2025

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    Values and the Financial Crisis

    By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2025

    Mary Ellen McNish, General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, offered these suggestions and observations regarding the so called “bailout” in a letter she sent this week. Our nation is in trouble: Economic inequality is at its highest level since the Great Depression. The U.S. economy has shed 600,000 jobs this year. Food banks [...]

    Also posted in Bidness, Peace and Politics | Comments closed

    Every Day is Labor Day

    By Frank Paynter | Published: September 2, 2025

    I was just watching a jingoistic clip about good old Teddy Roosevelt and San Juan Hill and that bloody chapter in the American imperial adventure and I realized I’d let Labor Day pass with remark on this blog. I think that the struggle is not over and the trip is a long one. Here’s a [...]

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    Searching for Tree Shapiro

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 4, 2025

    Come on man. Get back here. I am reduced to Miami Vice re-runs on Netflix. [tags]tree shapiro, ane brun, lars bygden[/tags]

    Also posted in People | Comments closed

    Flew his Lear jet up to Nova Scotia…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: August 1, 2025

    My climatologist friend David is up near Mongolia today for the total eclipse of the sun (mapped by Google here.) In other science news, there’s a big brouhaha brewing about the gent from Qatar who shipped his Lamborghini LP640 to England to have it serviced. The maintenance itself runs US$7,000 so why not add another [...]

    Also posted in Bloggers 'n blogs, Blogging and Flogging, Science | Comments closed

    Sunday Evening Music for my Friends

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 13, 2025

    For my friends waiting out the Whiskeytown / Lime complex fires out 299 near Douglas City… …and some banjo picking for my eponymous pal out east… … and because there’s never enoough dobro music in this life… [tags]iris dement, earl scruggs, emmy lou, nitty gritty, et al, good old al, what would we do without [...]

    Also posted in Creative Arts, Farm Almanac, Music | Comments closed

    What do these two postings have in common?

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 30, 2025

    First, a mutterance via twitter from the inimitable Gapingroid… And then this Feldenkreutzer Sinatra, or some such thing… The web of allusion and the web of illusion seem sometimes to occupy the same space in mah mind! [tags]What would Krishnamurti tweet{/tags]

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    NCMR2008 sightings

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 7, 2025

    Gene and Linda Farley, Lynn Chakoian, Lessig, Dan Gillmor, Susan Crawford, Tim Wu, Tim Karr, Sascha Meinrath, John Nichols, Norm Stockwell, Eloise Rose E. Lee, and about 1500 other people whose names I don’t know yet. [tags]ncmr2008[/tags]

    Also posted in Blue Left, Class Warfare, Democracy, Journo, Peace and Politics | Comments closed