Our Participation Garden has entered its wild, overgrown stage.
Sure, it’s not drawing global admiration like the Obama Victory Garden, but we did manage to negotiate a hard-won truce with rabbit insurgents. It’s shaky, but holding, thanks to a new fence.
A few dead-enders are sniffing around, but they’re in their last throws.
The endless flow of zucchini has started. Cucumbers are next. [...]
July 14, 2009
Participation Garden – July
July 14, 2009
Don’t Poll, Don’t Tell
Maybe you caught some coverage of a poll commissioned by TheIowaRepublican.com (News for Republicans, by Republicans) showing that 67 percent of Iowans surveyed want a statewide vote on what the survey calls a “traditional marriage amendment.”
The poll of 500 people, which also included a long list of questions about Gov. Culver, the 2010 campaign etc., was taken earlier [...]
July 14, 2009
Tuesday Column — Missing All the Fun
Miss a week, miss a lot. There were developments on many fronts during my week away. A few thoughts on what I missed:
I Can’t Believe it’s Not Popular — The Iowa State Fair-Michael Jackson butter sculpture debate has Iowans on the edge of their seats. First, the fair announced that Jacko would be cast full-scale [...]
