Month: July 2011

You might want to take a little time this afternoon to peruse a report on the health and future of our oceans. You can choose from the short summary or the long one (both in PDF form). The report was created by the International...

I’ve never gone to or marched in a gay pride parade before, but this is a good one to make my first. The state of New York passed marriage equality legislation this Summer, so it should be an especially joyous occasion. I...

Lisa Mascaro and Kathleen Hennessey of the Los Angeles Times have a piece on the Republican capitulation. As I predicted repeatedly that he would, the Speaker is now in the process of explaining basic economic and political...

So says Human Rights Watch in a report released last Tuesday. I had totally missed that bit of news. The theatrics of the debate on the debt limit ceiling and the concurrent implosion of the Murdoch media empire dominated the...

Hello again painting fans. This week I’ll be continuing with the painting of the Ferrari F430. I will be using the photo seen directly below. I’m using my usual acrylic paints on a 5×7 canvas. When last seen,...