Month: November 2016

Adios, Fidel Castro

As you might expect, the Miami Herald has an excellent retrospective on the life of Fidel Castro who has passed away at the age of ninety. He was such a consequential man that there many angles one can take. As the Herald notes,...

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SPP Vol.589 & Old Time Froggy Botttom Cafe

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the Grand Canyon painting. The photo that I’m using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 6×6 inch canvas. When last...

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Trump’s Public and Private Positions

Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, traveled to Japan in mid-October when things were looking pretty grim for his candidate. He was there “on the invitation of a U.S. company for which he serves...

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Racism Our Future – Wilders, Trump, and so on

I’ve been warning for years now … the Dutch right-wing Islamophobes … and what the Republicans and Trump supporters will bring on … one could argue, under the Obama presidency latent racism steadily...

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Should the Electors Choose Trump?

Lawrence Lessig says that the Electoral College should select Hillary Clinton as our next president, which is not unreasonable on its face. The Electoral College serves two distinct purposes. One is that it creates dozens of...

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