Month: October 2012

Fundamentalists in the Mist

If I am not mistaken, this man represents Athens, Georgia which is home of the University of Georgia, which is a fine university: Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.373

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting an entirely new painting.  We’re headed out west for a refreshing change.  I’m painting from a photo I took on the trail around Bell Rock in Sedona,...

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Stripping Romney of His Crown

My feeling is that Mitt Romney took advantage of the 90 minutes he had on the same stage as the president to elevate his status and to motivate his base. He helped himself more than the president helped himself. But Romney has...

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RIP: Eric Hobsbawm

Last year, historian Eric Hobsbawn published what would turn out to be his final book, How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2010. I had the pleasure to read it during some vacation time I took last December, and have...

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Just Sayin’

I’m not saying that Thomas Jefferson was right about everything, but he was the guy who put that stuff about The Creator in the Declaration of Independence.

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