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THE LAZY BERKSHIRE GARDENER: Week of February 13, 2025

Seeds are inexpensive compared to purchasing the same volume of produce. Make a plan to start some favorites this year!

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

President Trump ponders his options.

POEM: Face-off in the Nursery Ward!

little, tiny hands balled into fists -- a pair of pygmy pugilists!

Orange Alert: The (almost) daily outrage

Orange Alert, an occasional (perhaps daily, perhaps more than daily) feature, translating the president elect's prevarications into their evident meaning and intent. Today's outrage: The nuclear option.

Fable for our time: Trunk  

The trees heard a constant murmuring, of individuals and of groups of people, all saying the word, maybe even chanting or occasionally yelling: “TRUNK,” TRUNK,” “TRUNK.” Hearing was never their strongest asset.

KALCHEIM: Stupidity in foreign affairs knows no bounds

To these dangerous ignoramuses, blind tough-talking is always the answer. They actually believe that antagonizing Iran in perpetuity, a country of more than 80 million people, which is sure to develop a nuclear bomb some day, if it really wants to, actually enhances our national security.

KALCHEIM: Nightmare scenario: Will 2015 be like 1939?

If we go one step further, and offer the Ukrainians a formal alliance, the result could be nuclear war. This past week, Putin revealed, in an interview with Russian television

KALCHEIM: About Ukraine, put yourself in Putin’s place

If history is any guide, the more we pressure and antagonize Russia with sanctions, EU and NATO expansion, and this proxy war, the less likely Russia will ever back down, and the less likely the deeply corrupt Moscow regime will begin to reform itself, and adapt basic western notions of political and economic freedom.
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