Month: March 2015

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) If there’s a time and place that signals the start of the current human era, it’s the first four months of 1492 on the...

Rick Santorum can occasionally make a lot of sense, even if he tends to do it unintentionally. Remember back in the fall of 2012 when he said this? “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will...

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the painting of the Cape May street scene.  The photo I am using is seen directly below.  I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8 by 8 inch...

I don’t read Steve M.’s blog every day, but I read it often enough that I think I recognize a mantra when I see it. Steve uses a lens to interpret the right, and it seems to have a lot of explanatory power. It...

Yeah, it’s cool to combine the vernal equinox with a solar eclipse and Supermoon, but it’s snowing like hell here and we can’t see any of it.