2:00PM Water Cooler 9/28/2022 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Affected person readers, I musk ask your indulgence as soon as extra, as I full a quixotic put up on masking. Tomorrow I shall be again in kind. That is an open thread. –lambert.

In honor of the latest reception of the Azovs in “The Folks’s Home,” as Pelosi likes it name it, I assumed I’d put up X’s “Underneath The Huge Black Solar,” the Black Solar being a Nazi image, therefore much appreciated by the losers of Mariupol (although maybe they’ll clear themselves up for American cable). Sadly, the lyrics, although nice, are totally off-point.

Then I assumed: What the heck?

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Copeland writes: “That is Salvia greggii ‘Radio Pink’. Certainly one of its widespread names is Autumn Sage, and although it blooms all spring and summer time, it actually does put forth a mighty effort going into autumn after taking a little bit of a breather in midsummer. Tremendously enticing to hummingbirds.”

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