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LIARS NEVER PROSPER

Posted on March 3, 2026 by John | 2 comments

    The liars punishment is not in the least that he is
    not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
          - George Bernard Shaw

We look to the gods we know
for retribution, the short proverbs
our long lives have proven true

as we await once certain consequences
yet concerned about our absent deities,
afraid that verbal substitutes like

‘taking care of number one’
becomes the mantra,
becomes the drum

that humanity has learned to march to.
Look away from the circus fools
‘lest we give them credence.

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Posted in Poems 2026, poetry

Tagged politicians, politics

IT

Posted on November 8, 2022 by John | 1 comment

Who bankrolls

the nasty TV ads

that verge on slander,

the propositions

to make law

no attorney comprehends,

then leave it up

to the common man

to cast his vote

for the profit in IT,

be IT self-righteous egos

or just plain cash?

Imagine the power-rush

spending someone else’s money

and then to get paid

with all the perks

for IT

for life.

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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2022

Tagged common man, democracy, elections, mid-terms, parties, photography, poetry, politicians, politics, voting

SILVER LININGS

Posted on October 25, 2013 by John | 1 comment

Robbin and I are trying to pace ourselves and grin our way through these dry times begun last grass season with less than ten inches of rain, about 60% of average. With only dry fuzz for forage, our cows are holding-up remarkably well as they calve, due in large part to the truckloads of hay we’ve provided since the middle of August.

We may be luckier than most, like the cattlemen on the Coast Range who’ve had to liquidate their cowherds after additional tough years for forage. In the next couple of weeks we’ll begin reducing our number of replacement heifers when we get them in for their round of shots before we put the Wagyu bulls out December 1st. Then onto the cow pastures to send the late-calvers to town.

It takes years to build a nice herd of young cows and only a couple of dry ones to undo decades of work. But trying to find a silver lining, we hope this culling process will ultimately improve the genetics of our cows into the future. Fortunately the market’s fairly strong and Congress has left Washington for home.