Month: September 2009

(cross posted in DKos http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/12/780979/-Liberalism-is-deadhow-to-make-progress ) There are three enemies of change in the US: the insurrectionist “conservatives”, the corrupt...

Courtesy of Chris Cook, I attended a conference on Nama – the proposed National Asset Management Agency, or bad bank, organised by FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability) and the Environmental Pillar of the...

The watering the Tree of Liberty talk you keep hearing from the Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann fanboys is getting out of hand. Way, way out of hand. These people are not simply simple minded crazy members of the lunatic fringe...

The refrain from Washington has been that we need to look forward and not investigate credible allegations of wrongdoing.  Such an approach has become something of a Beltway tradition, but this time it looks especially...

Hello again painting fans. This week we’ll be taking a diversion from our our 2 current paintings, the source photos of which are seen directly below. Instead, I’ve used my usual acrylics on a 5×7 canvas of a...