'Tis the eve of the eve of ...

Halloween (Samhain) is Wednesday this week. It's another way to say "All Hallows' Eve," the eve of All Saints Day. So Tuesday will be the eve of All Hallows' Eve and today is, or will be a little later, the eve of Tuesday. We could try back counting from Christmas Eve, but that's pushing the seasons too much for our taste. There are, however, only eight eves before Election Day morn.

first, there's one Jack-o'Lantern

Photo by J. Harrington

At our suggestion, the Better Half [BH] started pumpkin carving last night. She finished two in a more creative style than we would have been able to freehand. Maybe next year we'll actually break down and get one of those kits for ourselves. As good the BH's work is, we fear it's overshadowed by the works shown here in Saturday's issue of The Guardian.

but, after dark, they multiply

Photo by J. Harrington

As you may know, but in case it's slipped your mind, Election Day is one week from tomorrow (or you can vote early should you so choose). Under today's Republican regime, in our name, they're separating children from their parents and holding them hostage; meanwhile, radicals of the "right-wing" type are mailing pipe bombs to liberals and news organizations; voters are being suppressed to reinforce gerrymandered Republican wins; worshipers, Christians and Jews and Muslims, are being attacked and some murdered in their places of worship and #45 suggests armed guards be placed at the doors of holy buildings; the poor and middle-class are being "taxed" to provide tax cuts for the richest 1%; and Republicans continue to try to destroy both health care financing and the environment on which a healthy economy and a healthy population of workers and consumers depends. Enough of the dirty tricks. Let's make some real treats by turning November 6 as blue as it needs to be to put a curse on an unAmerican Republican agenda. We have heard some say, but have not yet seen any proof, that Shakespeare's witches were hexing Republicans.

Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”

By William Shakespeare(from Macbeth)

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,

Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon's blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

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