January 27, 2021

Oh boy, this is going to complement tonight’s dinner. I found this recipe on a blog a couple of years ago for “Red Lobster Cheesy Biscuit Bread,” a copycat recipe for Red Lobsters famous cheese biscuits baked as a loaf of bread. I’ve made it several times and it’s ‘to die for.’ Don’t drool all over yourself now. Stay tuned for more bread baking adventures from Ziggyman. One of my Christmas gifts from the missus was a sourdough starter crock, whole wheat flour, and the book Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes. I have a batch of sourdough starter culture going and will soon be baking my first loaf of sourdough bread. Here comes the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

It’s been cold and snowy the past couple of days so the missus directed me to start the woodstove first thing in the morning and to keep it going all day until we go to bed. It’s so damn hot in here I have to shower twice a day. It does feel good though, especially when I come in from outside. I got another load of firewood on Saturday to start getting seasoned for next year, so I’ve spent the last couple of days filling the wheelbarrow and taking it out back to stack. Easy way to get my exercise and 10,000 steps in.

I’ve been reading, over the past few days, Parts I and II of the “2021 Roundtable,” an annual series of interviews with financial experts in Barron’s weekly magazine/newspaper. One of the more interesting questions to one of the participants, James Anderson, was not about finances or our economy, but rather the current state of our society.

“James, at the risk of injecting more politics into the discussion, your prediction of a low-level civil war in the U.S. for the next five years was rather disturbing. It is difficult to predict such things, but how do you see this playing out?”

Anderson: “History shows, whether in America in recent years or globally, that once you enter a period in which there is profound social and political division, and profound disrespect for the truth, that tends to carry on and multiply until you have a denouement to the system. We can still see those tensions increasing. The likelihood is that this will continue for at least another five years, until you see social and demographic change.”

Wow! After surviving the past four years, five more years of low-level civil war would be more than my psyche can handle. I don’t think he is wrong, however. After the events that occurred on January 6^th, and the lack of consequences for tRump by the Traitor Party, along with some of the responses they have made over the past week, I think we are on a path to more unrest. I saw a report today from The Department of Homeland Security that the U.S. faces heightened threats from domestic extremists following the breach of the Capitol. To add to this, the Traitor Party of Oregon is saying that the attack on the Capitol was a ‘false flag,’ meaning an operation to discredit tRump and his supporters brought about by anti-tRumpers. The endorsement of conspiracy theories by the GOP is laughable. One person’s tweet “Same Stupid. Different Day” describes it perfectly.

Anyhoo, time to go make a martini. Have a great evening.  Ziggyman