or they shrug, buy some blue chemical and apply it lavishly without really knowing why. ...more

August 14, 2008

Married farmers with joint incomes of up to $1.5 million a year could still qualify for crop subsidies under a five-year, $300 billion farm bill compromise that would boost the Agriculture Department's food and farm programs. ...more

May 9, 2008

The full moon occurred on Saturday at 2:30 p.m., which means the mid-day bite should be best, right? Wrong! The major bite occurs during the night because of the lower water temperatures, clear skies enhancing the moonlit night, and the pattern from the past two previous months, which had the new and full moon happening during the late night hours. However, there is a moderate feeding migration taking place first thing in the morning in areas about 5- to 10-feet deep. There is a very slight chance of hooking a bass in more shallow water because of the pre-spawn, but other than that, most likely not. So the predicted best times of the day are from safelight to 10:30 a.m. and from 2:30 to 6 p.m. ...more

November 25, 2007

And now come the Pumpkin Police to save us from heinous second-graders who have the audacity to, gasp! carve a pumpkin. Good grief Charlie Brown, the Great Pumpkin would roll over in his grave. This would have had amusing results if the assignment had been given to teenagers, who supposedly know better. Oops, silly me. But these are second- graders who, hopefully, still believe in Santa Claus. They are very impressionable at that age, and should still be tugging on Mommy's apron strings, except that mommy traded in her apron for a business suit, the real crux of the problem. So we already have tree huggers and bunny huggers, now we are raising a generation of veggie huggers. The Good Lord gave us dominion over the beasts of the land, the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea. I assume He left out plant matter on purpose, since it really can't run away, and He gave us too much credit for being able to figure that out on our own. It is already politically incorrect to hunt and fish, so now I suppose tilling a garden will become some sort of ghastly social stigma. ...more

November 3, 2007