Month: September 2016

The Collapse of American Elite Power

I’m not quite sure how to read Mark Landler and Jane Perlez’s article in the New York Times on President Obama’s trip to Asia. It essentially scolds the president for not having an early and coherent and tough...

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World’s Biggest Polluters Ratify Paris Agreement

A liitle bit of good news in this gloomy summer cycle of crazy political news and global strife … The World’s Biggest Carbon Emitters Officially Join The Paris Climate Deal On Saturday, the United States and China...

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SPP Vol.577 & Old Time Froggy Botttom Cafe

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting an entirely new painting.  I am using the photo seen directly below.  It is another 2nd Empire Victorian, this one in Nyack, New York.  Well, at least the...

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