Month: April 2015

Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.504

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...

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John McCain Ruined the Word ‘Maverick’

I’m trying to think about how to put this gently. You would think that after seeing John McCain’s metamorphosis from a “straight-talking” contrarian media darling into a bloodthirsty sociopath, the press...

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The Silt at the Bottom of the Pond

Oh, good, another opportunity for us to examine and calibrate our measurements of the crazification factor. Hint: we know this value cannot sink more than one standard deviation below George W. Bush’s lowest polling...

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David Brooks and the Reasonable Soviets

If it is David Brooks day, it must be time for a stupid, contrived, artificial dichotomy. Beyond all the talk of centrifuges and enrichment capacities, President Obama’s deal with Iran is really a giant gamble on the nature of...

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