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The Real Wild Wild West

The last leg of the trip is the return. East of Phoenix, we passed through mountains filled with monolithic Easter Island rocks into mining territory landscapes of pityless or pitiful Golgothas, I don’t know which, and the surrounding communities look none the richer for it. Open Pit Mine, Miami, Arizona, 2008 Google Earth view of…

April 15, 2008
BIG UGLY FENCE

An Atlanta musician decides to send out to everyone on his email list a link to Immigration Gumballs asking everyone to watch it and learn about the dramatic effects of immigration on this country. The long and short of it is Roy Beck addressing an audience of about 99.9% white faces on how America has…

August 26, 2007
Polyester. Yuck.

My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants. Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. badly needed…

April 20, 2007
The First Veil

The First Veil Digital painting 2007 Lightbox enlargement I’ve wanted to get back to working on a Women of Myth series, having already done Salome and Eve, and this is in that direction, influenced by memories of foreign movies of the 60s through the early 80s I’d seen when cinema screens were still large and…

March 14, 2007
Thoughtful post chucked for a pointer to David Hasselhoff "Jump in my car" anti-war music video criticizing America's promises to give you a hand up to democratic capitalism (serious!)

Forget the thoughtful post on something or other that I wrote earlier and tossed. Forget the posts I continue to write on the films of Fellini and Antonioni but end up not posting. Forget the posting I didn’t make of my recent “Trueman” dream (truly weird, had when I was sick last week). Forget the…

July 11, 2006
Dr. Lynn and Dr. Irwing say men are smarter than women–or how African-Americans took slave ship lemons and made lemonade with their white masters

Well, now we know for fact that men are more intelligent than women. The article actually says men are cleverer than women. Does intelligent mean the same thing as clever? Maybe in Britain it does. Seems I’ve mistakenly always thought of cleverness having as much to do with personality as it does with bare-bones intellect.…

August 27, 2005
No, we only take Real IDs, not fake ones

The Real ID Act hooked itself up to an $82 billion military spending bill that Bush is going to be signing soon. The house passed. The senate passed. Did anyone really doubt whether it was going to happen? “Oh, but if we try to fight the Real ID by not voting for the military spending…

May 11, 2005
And who is the first and only contract security service provider in the U.S. to have made the Dept. of Homeland Security’s list of approved services for homeland security? The envelope, please…

I noticed this quote a little while back and put it on file: The federal government has pumped cash into this new fight, spending more than $12 billion for homeland security research and development over the past four budget years. “Homeland security is probably going to be the government’s biggest employer in the next decade,”…

May 10, 2005
Big brother and cautious moms

I don’t know where to start. I don’t want to leave Mediagirl’s blogging on cloture and what it means to constituents as versus the politicians. Nor do I want to leave the subject of Giuliana Sgrena (Nur al-Cubicle has up a translation of an interview of her by Marco Imarisio of Il Corriere dell Sera).…

March 13, 2005