Month: January 2011

Hello again painting fans. This week I’ll be continuing with the painting of the Cold Spring, New York structure.  I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8×8 inch gallery-wrapped (thick) canvas....

Obama issued a responsible statement on Egypt. Except, he kind of lit a match by pledging support for the effort to democratize, and for people’s right to assemble and protest. If we’re going to get on the right side...

You know that phrase, “except in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother”? Well, if the House Republicans get their way, you are going to have to change that to “except in cases of forcible rape,...

One lesson I take from Rosa Parks’ telling of her story is the importance of not retelling one’s oppressor’s story. There’s a great example of this in the first chapter of the Book of Exodus. “Then...

Apparently, as part of Harry Reid’s agreement not to push for filibuster reform, he extracted a promise that Mitch McConnell will not attempt to use the 51-vote “Constitutional Option” to change the rules when...