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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Gone Fishin’: What I Caught
The Missus and I ventured out to the Berkshires the last couple of days, and here’s what I caught: * An eye-candy exhibit, Prendergast in Italy, at the Williams College Museum of Art. It brought together 60 of Maurice Prendergast’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keefe, Maurice Prendergast, The Torch-Bearer
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Dobbs Fairy Tale
Courtesy of Campaign Outsider’s Verizon broadband revival: The curent Lou Dobbs donnybrook is a total hoot. CNN’s resident xenophobe has been propping up the birthers who contend that Barack Obama was born in Kenya so is ineligible for the U.S. … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’
I wanted to post about the excellent dustup around CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Mr. Midwife to the birther movement that claims Barack Obama does not have a valid U.S. birth certificate, thereby making Obama ineligible to be president. But my costly … Continue reading
Why America Needs Daily Newspapers
Check out this heart-wrenching report in Sunday’s New York Times about suicides among Iraq war veterans, which are accelerating at breakneck speed. The number of suicides reported by the Army has risen to the highest level since record-keeping began three … Continue reading
Department of the Obvious
If the Wall Street Journal’s interview with John McCain on Saturday wasn’t the most self-serving exercise this side of the check-out lines at Shop ‘n’ Stop, it’ll do till something better comes along. Here’s McCain on how he was shocked shocked … Continue reading
Good News For Kinky Lovers
The Lone Star-studded political news this week is that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Don’t Mess With My Political Ambitions) has made a beehive – sorry, beeline – to the Texas gubernatorial race. Hutchison announced that she’ll leave her Senate seat … Continue reading