Tag: social studies
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Dovetailing Mount Rushmore with everything, positively everything
I was reading again last night (this morning really), elsewhere, the tired plaint of what this country is becoming. It’s a well meaning plaint, facing pictures out of Iraq. But it is wrong. Atrocity is nothing recent. It is nothing new. It’s just plain ol’ business as usual. And that’s the thing, that Americans have…
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Not that I don't care about politics anymore
Some are asking why I don’t blog about politics any longer. Why? Several reasons. For one, I happened on the Hanford archive and started doing those digital paintings. Which to me are both human interest and political. At least to me they are. And that was eating up a good bit of what would have…
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LSD not good for war
Well, I’m glad I checked out Boing Boing today. They’ve a lilnk to an old film showing what happens when Britsh troops are dosed with LSD. They forget how to operate equipment and collapse in laughter. They become incapable of making war and start climbing trees to feed the birds. My faith in humanity is…
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What happens when stupid white people doodle on their napkins at the dining table after Thanksgiving Dinner
Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the Trail of Tears from the southeast…
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Without country
Last night at around 3 AM I was looking at a photo of an Iraqi man holding up to the camera eye a dead baby in diapers. I always wake up a couple of hours after I go to sleep and I get up and drink some water and read a little or work a…
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All ya gotta do is replace a few words
Not new news, that the government is spying on anti-war protesters. Why throw away perfectly good old posts when a couple of minor adjustments will do. See also Bush calling the constitution just a goddamn piece of paper. Old news in blogworld as it’s over a few days old but it suits. More Dissident Dick…
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Torture and Human Rights Abuses – we gotta stop thinking of ourselves as the good guys gone bad because if the bad sleep well then America has had more than its fair share of many well-rested nights
Over at Nightbird’s Fountain the other day was made this post linking to the very pink Torture Tree. Someone remarked in the comments area since when did we represent torture and human rights abuses and we needed to stand for freedom again. As I noted in response in the comments area, I always feel like…
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Cameras steal souls
I love doing digital portraits, and despite that I’m one of those peculiar people who believe cameras have the capacity to steal souls. Something I’ve thought about since I was in my early 20s. Was reflecting on this only partly because of the death of Richard Pryor and reading a sundry comment here and there…
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Reading about diamonds
There’s an area called Popular at Technorati. I rarely drop by there. When I remember it exists, I check out a few blogs to see what’s up, like crossing a virtual ocean to the far side where I bang my head with mysterious invisible hammers until I’m appropriately stupefied and return home full of wonder…
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Reagan and Nancy
Imagine here a picture of Reagan as Tarzan with Nancy as Jane and that it’s in soft focus black and white or luxurious petal pastels, Reagan with his chimp and Nancy holding her starchart up to the heavens, reading the future, “Ronnie, believe it or not, you will be remembered as a compassionate conservative!” He…
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Someone going by the name of Katharine DeBrecht doesn’t like sharing and she doesn’t like to barter–just thought you’d like to know
Sunday, a woman honked at Marty and waved wildly for his attention. What was up? “I love you,” she shouted. As it turns out, she works for the ACLU here and was responding to our ACLU bumper sticker. The cover of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! depicts some caricatured well-known faces crawling…
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Will Pennsylvania be where it normally is come Monday?
Oh goodness. Pat Robertson has gone and warned voters of Dover, Pennsylvania that since they voted out a school board that supported intelligent design they’re likely to be struck by disaster. “I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just…