Month: October 2013

Hello again painting fans. This week I will continuing with the painting of the Grand Canyon. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 10×10 gallery-wrapped canvas. When...

Jon Lovett can be uneven, but he has some magical flashes, like this one: It happened slowly, didn’t it? The change in the Republican Party? I don’t know. Maybe it’s nostalgia. There have always been the wild, vicious voices of...

First is the beautifully written Chronicle Of A Death Retold by James Wolcott in Vanity Fair.  Echoes from possibly my favorite Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold likely biased my opinion of...

So, now the Tea Baggers are going to go after Republican senators who are up for reelection in red states. In particular, they are gunning for Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South...

. Stakes at the table of international diplomacy are set higher as Saudi Arabia is extremely angered by US rebukes on a Syria intervention. Kerry and Lavrov have joined to find a diplomatic solution to the civil/sectarian war in...