“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”– Upton Sinclair What it is Why it’s controversial Flashpoints this week Jason K. Pargin – A Prophet for the New Millennium We manually transcribed, verbatim, a video essay of a Facebook post by Jason K. Pargin. […]
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Perog-y-thon 2025
Dateline WLBOTT HQ: 2025-10-01After successfully concluding all WLBOTT corporate business, the Elder culinary break-out team got to work. For inspiration, let’s reflect on Steven Fromholz’s beautiful poetry: Six o’clock silence of a new day beginningIs heard in a small Texas townLike a signal from nowhere the people who live thereAre up and moving around’Cause there’s bacon to fryThere’s biscuits […]
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Oh Fortuna!
Let’s say Oh Fortuna! is a statistically probabilistic phenomena. That means most days will be a blend of good and bad, yielding a tepid and flavorless day. Some days will be weighed heavily toward Fortuna Buena, but unfortunately those days will be marred by suspicions of undeserved happiness. And then there are the bad days […]
The WLBOTT Ladle & Lube cooks have consulted with The Great Chefs of Europe, as well as Elder KM (she knows her varenyky!) We have collected a variety of stuffing suggestions. This Conclave of Cooks, the Potsdam Perogy Plenary, has long been a favorite subject of Renaissance painters. Results of the Chefs’ Conclave Savory & […]
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Motivational Monday
September 29,2025 – Forgiveness “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”Archbishop Desmond TutuNobel Peace Prize Winner (1931 – 2021) “Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”Mahatma GandhiIndian political and spiritual leader (1869-1948) Elder JZ: When I get exasperated with life, the universe, etc., I find comfort in John Prine’s whimsical […]
As we prepare for Elder JimZim’s visit to WLBOTT HQ and the associated varenyky culinary adventure, we will also be adding to the digital dumpling database of knowledge. At this point, the WLBOTT team of Perogy Sciences have made two ground-breaking discoveries. The Micro-Perogy In-Vitro Dumpling Technology WLBOTT research explores the many opportunities in In-Vitro […]
WLBOTT’s Ladle & Lube Test Kitchen is bubbling over with excitement! In a few days Elder JimZim will be visiting WLBOTT HQ. After a perfunctory review of our financials (we have none), and a quick ISO/OSHA compliance check, we will be making Ukrainian varenyky (also known as perogies). There will be a great deal of […]
The story of Sisters Bernadette, Regina, and Rita Yesterday morning The Guardian brought us a wonderful story – some feisty nuns who only want to continue living the life they’ve spent their entire lives cultivating. But there’s a lot more to the story (see the Guardian’s full article) – the Church hierarchy cut off their […]
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Mycelium’s Midnight Mingle
We’d be remiss if we didn’t follow up yesterday’s blott with a description of fungi reproduction. Let’s Make Sex Boring (from Gemini) Mushroom reproduction involves producing tiny, lightweight spores through either asexual or sexual processes, which are then dispersed by wind or other means to grow into new thread-like hyphae and form a network called a […]
[Today we have a guest blott from Elder JimZim] Gentle People – I was hiking in a very nice park in Maryland today and came across these beautiful mushrooms growing out of a decaying log. In addition to the bright color, they had interesting geometric patterns on them. Since mushrooms grow on moist, organically rich […]