September 14--half past another month

We have had a wet first half of the month but that is supposed to break with some dry and sunny days coming up. Time to get some of the garden clean up done and get the shed squared away. The trees are quickly putting on their autumnal colors and dropping leaves.

Reading today:

    Mandy Smithberger at TomDispatch on the one continuing successful operation the Pentagon has--getting obscene levels of funding.

    At Global Voices: Are Romance languages Becoming More Gender Neutral? I had noticed that some of the commentators and news readers were using the term "Latin-x" and wondered it it was simply an attempt to follow our own notions of gender neutrality. It isn't.

    Ugo Bardi at Cassandra's Legacy: Famines as a Military Weapon, Is Europe in Danger? Modern situation complicated by the industrialization of the food supply which requires much larger imputes of fossil fuels in various forms and by the fact that Europe produces a smaller portion of their food locally.

    HuffPost: Mosquito Clouds Killing Deer, Cattle in Southwestern Louisiana. Damn!! And I found several other stories on this from other sources.

    The Siberian Times: More Than 400 Sealed "Craters" Are Ticking Time Bombs. Something else I have read about for a couple of years now.

    NPR: Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? I was totally bummed out when local stores, except for the local dairy and a health food store insisted that customers not use reusable bags. I thought the whole thing was a subsidy to the plastics industry that had faced growing efforts to get rid of single use plastics.