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\n@patrickrhone Not to beat a dead horse, but this analysis by Jack Goldsmith does a better job that I did of highlighting what I think are problems with the NYTimes article on the Shadow Docket. You might find it interesting. (Or you might not!)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88657686","date_published":"2026-04-20T19:49:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-20 19:49","date_timestamp":1776714583,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88588417","content_html":"Give Some Love to the Anoles
\n\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/c8f97144a2-m.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/04/19/give-some-love-to-the/","date_published":"2026-04-19T18:41:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 18:41","date_timestamp":1776624108,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88573346","content_html":"@frjonjordan What a lovely companion! Re: THFC, I’m a bit mad at, but more sad for, Danso.
\nThis seems at least partially right to me: Spurs are poor passers.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88573346","date_published":"2026-04-19T13:37:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-19 13:37","date_timestamp":1776605859,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88533726","content_html":"@ReaderJohn Yeah, looking at my profile again, it’s maybe telling that “tortilla maker” is mentioned, but “lawyer” is not. Not sure that gives readers much of a foothold re: stupid posts.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88533726","date_published":"2026-04-18T19:24:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 19:24","date_timestamp":1776540283,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88519357","content_html":"@patrickrhone Fair points. But I dislike how The TImes frames this as “secretive” and “risky.” I’m not crazy about the “Shadow Docket,” and it’s undermined the Court’s authority in the eyes of the public, which is bad. But I think in most instances, SCOTUS has used it as a kind of “standstill” order for cases where (1) letting the issue play out pending a final decision probably will be harmful, and (2) there’s a better-than-even-chance that the final ruling will be in line with the temporary relief granted. (Which is what SCOTUS did in the Obama EPA case.) I think whether or not that seems risky or reasonable depends on whether or not one likes the outcome.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88519357","date_published":"2026-04-18T14:51:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 14:51","date_timestamp":1776523909,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88518403","content_html":"@ReaderJohn “… not as an identity.” I retired after 43 years at the same firm, and I agree completely. (Years ago, my brother introduced me to his friend. After I spent a couple of hours with them, the friend told my brother, “I’d have never guessed that guy’s a lawyer.” I took it as a compliment.)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88518403","date_published":"2026-04-18T14:37:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 14:37","date_timestamp":1776523053,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88517623","content_html":"@patrickrhone I don’t think it is, actually. Though the Times works hard to make it seem so.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88517623","date_published":"2026-04-18T14:24:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 14:24","date_timestamp":1776522273,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88517497","content_html":"Overwrought NYT
\nThis, from Adam Liptak and Jodi Kantor, strikes me as unwarrantedly high-strung. Read the SCOTUS memos: they’re pretty standard legal back-and-forth based on reasonable arguments on both sides. Nor does the Times show how this led to the Supremes’ “Shadow Docket.”
\nChill, kids.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/04/18/overwrought-nyt-this-from-adam/","date_published":"2026-04-18T14:21:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 14:21","date_timestamp":1776522093,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88408503","content_html":"Bring Me My Whangee
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/04/16/ttlmy-whangeettl/","date_published":"2026-04-16T23:55:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 23:55","date_timestamp":1776383722,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88328951","content_html":"Jeeves,’ I said.
\n‘Sir?’ said Jeeves. He had been clearing away the breakfast things, but at the sound of the young master’s voice cheesed it courteously.
\n“You were absolutely right about the weather. It is a juicy morning.”
\n‘Decidedly, sir.’
\n‘Spring and all that.’
\n‘Yes, sir.’
\n‘In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove.’
\n‘So I have been informed, sir.’
\n‘Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.
\n
@ReaderJohn I love “Tree of Life.” But for sheer beauty (any film, any director), “Days of Heaven” is the one.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88328951","date_published":"2026-04-15T20:09:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 20:09","date_timestamp":1776283799,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88063270","content_html":"@dwalbert I also love his early pre-geology pieces, e.g., Levels of the Game or Oranges
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88063270","date_published":"2026-04-11T19:18:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-11 19:18","date_timestamp":1775935101,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88015797","content_html":"@dwalbert I looked up the Kline book which looks wonderful. I’ve loved Wodehouse for 50+ years and McPhee for 40+. Sounds like a great reading regimen.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/88015797","date_published":"2026-04-10T23:51:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-10 23:51","date_timestamp":1775865072,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87498395","content_html":"Home, Again
\nVictor Lee Austin, April 2, 2026:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/04/02/home-again-victor-lee-austin/","date_published":"2026-04-02T22:16:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 22:16","date_timestamp":1775168201,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87353886","content_html":"The resurrection of Jesus is the way God chose to give the created world back to us. The resurrection remakes the world into what God always intended it to be. Thus, God’s resurrection gifts include families and churches and hearts of flesh. Resurrection is God bringing us to home.
\n
@patrickrhone So good! Reminds me of the late-90’s trio, “Cry Cry Cry.” You might enjoy them if you’re not familiar. “Cold Missouri Waters” is based on Young Men and Fire by Norman Mclean.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/87353886","date_published":"2026-03-31T22:40:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-31 22:40","date_timestamp":1774996801,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87353273","content_html":"There you have it
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/loudly.png\")
\nPoorly Drawn Lines by Reza Faramand
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/87213177","date_published":"2026-03-29T20:24:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 20:24","date_timestamp":1774815880,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87202557","content_html":"Stones Cry Out
\n![\"An](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/palmsunday.webp\")
\nby Sylwia Perczak - perczaksylwia
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/29/stones-cry-out-by-sylwia/","date_published":"2026-03-29T16:58:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 16:58","date_timestamp":1774803488,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87119005","content_html":"RIP, Tracy Kidder
\nHis books, especially House and Mountains Beyond Mountains (and to a lesser degree, The Soul of a New Machine) enthralled me.
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/house.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/27/rip-tracy-kidder-his-books/","date_published":"2026-03-28T03:13:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-28 03:13","date_timestamp":1774667592,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87118111","content_html":"Big Sniff
\n\norangejeep.org","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/27/big-sniff-my-first-job/","date_published":"2026-03-28T02:53:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-28 02:53","date_timestamp":1774666420,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86999258","content_html":"My first job downstairs is to open the back door and get a big breath of fresh air - rain or shine, winter or summer - I just copy the cats and dog, that’s what they do - that’s how the ‘read’ the day, nose up, what’s in the air? What smells different? Clear out the night-lungs. Start again. Meanwhile the kettle is boiling. I grind the beans. That smell of fresh ground beans. Oh wow! Then I am at the back door again, or in the yard, in my pyjamas and wellies, just with a little time to align myself with myself - and to align myself with this different, new day. It’s a little bit of Tao....
\n
@tinyroofnail Oh, how wonderful!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86999258","date_published":"2026-03-26T12:42:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-26 12:42","date_timestamp":1774528966,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86974616","content_html":"@ayjay This is so good. Thanks for sharing it.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86974616","date_published":"2026-03-26T02:12:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-26 02:12","date_timestamp":1774491143,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86831217","content_html":"![\"Logo](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/nk.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/23/214250/","date_published":"2026-03-24T02:42:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 02:42","date_timestamp":1774320170,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86830484","content_html":"@apoorplayer I may find that to be my case eventually, but for now I like keeping a toe in.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86830484","date_published":"2026-03-24T02:25:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 02:25","date_timestamp":1774319141,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86802451","content_html":"@manton @dave Interestingly, I’m finding that’s also the recipe for a good (almost-total) retirement. Having a couple of hours of paying work gives structure to my day.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86802451","date_published":"2026-03-23T18:08:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 18:08","date_timestamp":1774289303,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86628204","content_html":"It’s Spring! (In the northern hemisphere)
\nFirst step in spring cleaning: shave off beard.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/20/its-spring-in-the-northern/","date_published":"2026-03-20T20:00:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-20 20:00","date_timestamp":1774036821,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86426135","content_html":"@dwalbert Those all are great. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, is, I think, equally visually stunning. In the Heights was overshadowed by West Side Story that year, but I really liked both. Finally, I realized I’d become an adult (aka “old”) when I thought, “I like Shirley Jones more than Grace Slick.”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86426135","date_published":"2026-03-18T00:20:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-18 00:20","date_timestamp":1773793212,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86408611","content_html":"Who’s responsible?
\n\norangejeep.org","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/17/whos-responsible-this-almost-phase/","date_published":"2026-03-17T19:50:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-17 19:50","date_timestamp":1773777059,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86385768","content_html":"This “almost” phase [of machine autonomy] isn’t a brief transition. It’s the product—one that will be with us for years, maybe decades. So it’s important to notice the patterns. When an AI system never admits uncertainty, or when a car’s marketing says “self-driving” but the fine print says “driver responsible,” that’s a warning sign. When you realize that you haven’t really been paying attention for the past 10 miles, or the past 10 auto-composed emails, that’s the trap.
\nThings don’t have to be this way, but they won’t change unless consumers see the situation clearly and refuse to...
\n
Holy Cow! Look at this!
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/superbloom-m.jpg\")
\nSuperbloom wildflowers Carrizo Plain National Monument, photographed by Elliot McGucken! More information on superblooms in Death Valley here.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/17/holy-cow-look-at-this/","date_published":"2026-03-17T14:12:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-17 14:12","date_timestamp":1773756734,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86382083","content_html":"Sabbath Poem VII (1982) + Wendell Berry
\n\n\nThe clearing rests in song and shade.
\n
\nIt is a creature made
\nBy old light held in soil and leaf,
\nBy human joy and grief,
\nBy human work,
\nFidelity of sight and stroke,
\nBy rain, by water on
\nThe parent stone.We join our work to Heaven’s gift,
\n
\nOur hope to what is left,
\nThat field and woods at last agree
\nIn an economy
\nOf widest worth.
\nHigh Heaven’s Kingdom come on earth.
\nImagine Paradise.
\nO Dust, arise!
@jabel I’m definitely here because @ayjay extolled the virtues of MB, all of which I’ve now had the pleasure to experience for myself. Also, a hat-tip to @frjonjordan, who provided another nudge.
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\nI immensely enjoyed this 2017 article about Tanya Amyx Berry and her life in Kentucky with Wendell Berry and their family and community.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/15/tanya-berry-i-immensely-enjoyed/","date_published":"2026-03-15T13:19:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 13:19","date_timestamp":1773580788,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86228770","content_html":"In the garden
\nPlanted about 70 nasturtium seeds around the backyard. I’m very late getting them into dirt, but it’s a small investment for a possibly great payoff. (If they bloom, photos to follow in the next couple of months.)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/14/in-the-garden-planted-about/","date_published":"2026-03-15T03:07:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 03:07","date_timestamp":1773544042,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86228262","content_html":"@tinyroofnail Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is great fun. You’ll enjoy it, @mwerickson.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86228262","date_published":"2026-03-15T02:36:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 02:36","date_timestamp":1773542198,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86205725","content_html":"@ReaderJohn Whoa!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86205725","date_published":"2026-03-14T18:02:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-14 18:02","date_timestamp":1773511360,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86205338","content_html":"@tinyroofnail Beautiful. It puts me in mind of Paul Farmer and the “long defeat.”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86205338","date_published":"2026-03-14T17:54:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-14 17:54","date_timestamp":1773510893,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86080831","content_html":"@ablerism I watch it every few years. Sonya’s (Brook Smith’s) last-act soliloquy is so moving.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86080831","date_published":"2026-03-12T21:37:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 21:37","date_timestamp":1773351431,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86047788","content_html":"@mwerickson Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red and Blue (two films, but I’ll count them as one because they’re part of a trilogy. I don’t care for White, the third movie.): they’re great humanist films. Casablanca: because, you know, it’s Casablanca. Wonder Boys: Very funny, odd, Michael Douglas is great. Vanya on 42nd Street: Uncle Vanya in an interesting frame, wonderful performances by Wallace Shawn and Brook Smith. Metropolitan: Whit Stillman is the 20th C’s Jane Austen – and there’s a very funny and insightful reference in the movie to Jane Austen.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86047788","date_published":"2026-03-12T13:57:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 13:57","date_timestamp":1773323825,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86047091","content_html":"@ReaderJohn Fascinating and illuminating. That will stick with me. Thanks for sharing.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86047091","date_published":"2026-03-12T13:40:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 13:40","date_timestamp":1773322821,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86047002","content_html":"@jaheppler Beauties. Nice ears!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/86047002","date_published":"2026-03-12T13:38:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 13:38","date_timestamp":1773322703,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85852502","content_html":"@bbowman Wonderful! Congratulations!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/JimRain/85852502","date_published":"2026-03-09T19:55:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-09 19:55","date_timestamp":1773086108,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85580210","content_html":"Last Chance at Reconciliation | Joshua Mehigan
\nHe’s certain where he’s headed it’s too late.
\nWest Broadway glitters in a mist of rain
\nthat amber cones of light elucidate.
\nHe’s certain. Where he’s headed, it’s too late
\nto stop for flowers, dry off, or get things straight:
\na story, his misshapen hat, his...
Lessons Not Learned, Part 2
\nRobert Pape, University of Chicago:
\n\n\n orangejeep.org","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/03/lessons-not-learned-part-robert/","date_published":"2026-03-03T22:10:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-03 22:10","date_timestamp":1772575816,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85379754","content_html":"Iran is not a palace dictatorship resting on a handful of men. It is a state of roughly 92 million people, with governing institutions embedded across society…. Roughly one in eight Iranians works for the state or in state-linked institutions. The regime’s authority is threaded through provincial administrations, economic networks, and local security structures. Removing several dozen senior leaders — even highly placed ones — touches only a small fraction of that governing apparatus. It does not dismantle the structure; it activates it.
\n
Lessons Not Learned
\nThere are moral and legal cases against Trump’s Iran attacks. But a purely practical one is that heavy bombing doesn’t drive the other side to surrender, as history has shown again and again: The Blitz, “bombing North Vietnam back to the Stone Age,” Shock and Awe in Iraq …
\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/03/02/lessons-not-learned-there-are/","date_published":"2026-03-03T01:31:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-03 01:31","date_timestamp":1772501473,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84543368","content_html":"Ash Wednesday Poem
\nSabbaths 1979 + Wendell Berry
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/02/18/ash-wednesday-poem-sabbaths-wendell/","date_published":"2026-02-18T21:22:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-18 21:22","date_timestamp":1771449723,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84413079","content_html":"V
\nHow many have relinquished
\n
\nBreath, in grief or rage,
\nThe victor and the vanquished
\nNamed on the bitter pageAlike, or indifferently
\n
\nForgot–all that they did
\nUndone entirely.
\nThe dust they stirred has hidTheir faces and their works,
\n
\nHas settled, and lies still.
\nNobody rests or shirks
\nWho must turn in time’s mill.They wind the turns of the mill
\n
\nIn house and field and town;
\nAs grist is ground to meal
\nThe grinders are ground down.
First!
\n![\"Auto-generated](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/5736/2026/pxl-20260216-225618598.mp-m.jpg\")
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\nThere are good arguments that Chapters 4 and 5 of P. G. Wodehouse’s Leave It to Psmith are the pinacle of English literature. For an extra treat, try the audiobook read by Jonathan Cecil.
\n\n“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”: orangejeep.org
","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/02/10/i-dont-want-to-be/","date_published":"2026-02-10T14:44:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-10 14:44","date_timestamp":1770734641,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83970388","content_html":"Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton: orangejeep.org
","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/02/10/welcome-morning-by-anne-sexton/","date_published":"2026-02-10T13:52:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-10 13:52","date_timestamp":1770731564,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83856232","content_html":"Choices
\nMichael Wear, The Dispatch, February 8, 2026,
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://orangejeep.org/2026/02/08/choices-michael-wear-the-dispatch/","date_published":"2026-02-08T19:43:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Jim Rain","url":"http://www.orangejeep.org","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F13%2F11913.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"JimRain"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-08 19:43","date_timestamp":1770579782,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}This last decade of American politics cannot become the new standard. If it does, few of our institutions will survive… This is the danger, of course. That everything will orient around this man [Trump]. That he will succeed in making everything subject to his interests and his whims. He’s willing to do it with God, and he’s certainly willing to do it with the country. Our nation’s choice about whether to elect him is in the past, but the choice we have to make about whether we will become like him is ongoing.
\n