Friday, August 28, 2026

Grocery Shopping tips

For all the reasons that food and energy prices are probably not coming down anytime soon, an interesting set of tips.

Some of these tips are more practical than others depending, for instance on available space in cupboard and refrigerator / freezer. 



A TON of tips that assume a LOT of pickling, baking. Also, bulk buys are not practical in small apartments.




Monday, August 24, 2026

J Michael Luttig interviewed on The Court of History about January 3, 2027

 #GOP #elections


What happens on January 3, 2027 after the November 2026 elections.


What can possibly be more pathetic than the #GOP struggle to elect a speaker in 2025? Oh, just imagine. Starting with the role of the House Clerk.


Multiple narratives available about things that can happen before and right after the elections.




Starship 40 has gotten towed to Christmas Island

Has RantWoman mentioned in the last little while, for linguists new to maritime vocabulary, that Sal's YouTube channel is an awesome treasure trove of maritime terms.


More on fetching Starship 40 and how this rocket coming back from space really needs all the skilled mariners to get her home.




The next phase of Starship 40 getting fetched from the sea
Fun words: ballasting and deballasting

The situation with the USS Abraham Lincoln is even worse than ...

 The conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are appalling. There is NO EXCUSE for supplying plenty of ordnance and no food.


Also note: the percentage of black and brown people serving in the military way exceeds their percentage in the general population.


This is 82 years after a different disaster discussed here.

Friday, August 21, 2026

Lawrence O'Donnell on The President's lust for vengeance

Lawrence: Trump-endorsed primary losses show Trump might not pick the next GOP presidential nominee


 RantWoman appreciates both Lawrence O'Donnell's wisdom and the narrative he sometimes shares about different phases of his career. 


RantWoman enjoys imagining Mr. O'Donnell as a young Senate staffer and thinking about all he has seen and spoken about.


Enjoy the video and catch a RantWoman aside on the other side.


As an aside

RantWoman for eccentric reasons is observing the #SCsen #GOP runoff between Darline Graham (Nordone) and Roger Norman. RantWoman Has Opinions. For now suffice it to say, to RantWoman after watching a whole lot of candidates endorsed by President #StableGenius lose in their primaries, after watching the President sink and sink and sink in the polls, it must be hard to stay someone's friend and still try to chart a course that is good for the country and for one's state.


Even if a Democratic candidate looks good, RantWoman also HATES a sense of being extorted: "Vote for the Democrats or else." RantWoman is still angling for a sense of a Congress willing to work on serious problems, not just get mad and go out of town whenever things get too hard. Plus, RantWoman does not care whether it sounds sexist to say that it would just be cool for once to have strong women candidates from both parties. 


OK, RantWoman has a vivid imagination, and does not vote in SC and ...