Red Son

Is it Pax Americana or Pox Americana? Are we really standing for Truth, Justice, and Freedom or just Control?

Holiday Madness

This was like throwing red meat into the midst of a pack of winter-starved wolves. It speaks about the bad economy that still troubles us.

The Ultimate Snow Globe
If you have ever wished for truly godlike powers, click here. Filched from Nobody Knows Anything...

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Kimber
Please keep Kimber in your hearts as she undergoes gall bladder surgery on Monday....

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Not fit for American Television?

Now why do you suppose that this didn't make it to the American public?

Is this Your Neighbor?

Do you have a clue who this is?

The Real Michael Jackson

Michael, who told you that you were ugly? What happened to make you feel ashamed of yourself?

Money 2

Money is a useful tool. So is a hammer.

True Acts of Kindness

How often have you heard some of the wealthy say "There's no doing any good for the poor. They never appreciate it."

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Ahnold

He's getting his chance here. I can't do anything else but give him one for the time being. But he remains unproved.

Nabokovian Man

Whew! I am not Humbert Humbert!

Happy Thanksgiving

This is one bird that won't be getting cooked.

Burp

Never had one, never will. What's in it?

Policy Change
The following has been added to my blog policy page under "Comments": Philosophy: My comments area is not an open...

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Hooray for Hollywood

One of the signs of late autumn in Southern California is the eruption of the red berries of the Toyon bush, also known as the Christmas Berry or Hollywood. This is the plant that gave the subdivision its name.

Stoicism vs. Buddhism

Imagine Seneca and the Dalai Lama sitting together in the same room. Someone brings in a box of chocolates.

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Thank God For Judgemental People

Once I heard a woman -- who was totally unaware of the irony in what she said -- declare "I hate judgemental people." I do not

The Value of a Conscience

Must be hell, he said, to have a conscience, then.

Debugging MT
Problems have been fixed but still stuck in the water regarding the image uploading. Does anyone have any experience debugging...

Howard Dean's Back

This comes straight from Saruman -- not Sauron -- the DLC.

A Fast One

Big Brother might be fishing because they don't like what you say about them. And in no time, you're a fish out of water, suffocating.

The Brights 2: Rhymes with Own

Call me a None.

Overheard on Undernet #political
[Warpster] I went to a yacht launching party for a very wealthy and famous philanthropist once, had just realized I...

A Comment Worth Looking At
A new comment on an old article is worth looking at: War photographer Jon Mills on "Biased Impartiality": Many photographers...

I'm Good!

How did the rest of you do?

Travails
Experiencing temporary server glitches in the uploading of my photos. Hope to be back in business soon. I can still...

Michael Jackson

What I've missed in all the discussion about Michael Jackson is reference to his pathetic self-destruction aided and abetted by American attitudes towards people of color.

Blogchalking

...it doesn't seem to believe that there are any Californians with blogchalks.

The Sun is Crying

It's a nice illustration of the natural poet we have buried in ourselves and the virtue of listening to small children.

Money

If you collected all the U.S. currency in the world -- the quarters, the Susan B. Anthony dollars with their kinky edges, the pennies filed down to the size of dimes for purposes of cheating vendors, the silver certificates held in collections, -- I mean every single last cent no mattered if it is warped, bent, half melted, half burnt, or torn in half, you would not have nearly enough to cover the amount of money that is on the books in today's banks and brokerage houses.

She didn't say what they wanted her to say

When David Horowitz throws together a panel, you can expect that it will consist of people who attack liberals as a class.

Compare and Contrast

I must say that given the restrictions placed on London demonstrators, the British did pretty good with the turnout.

Shaving a Fluffy Bunny Saint

The word is out: you do not tarnish the legend of St. Francis of Assisi, you do not apply a depilatory to a man who gives most people the warm fuzzies.

Just before a reading
Key to understanding: The last line isn't meant as it first reads. Before we even get started Lee's saying "Be...

Buggy
Due to problems with Blogrolling, I haven't been able to update my links. To those who have been waiting, I...

An Amendment that Will Rend

I have long said that driving homosexuality underground results in severe exploitation and cruelty to the weaker partners.

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Out of Time

Who was Willie Hartack?

On a Trail, in the Dark

Yesterday afternoon, Lynn and I braved the partial cloud cover to hike along the lowest ridge on our skyline to a place called "Vulture Crags".

The Legend of 1900

It's another one of those European films which slipped past the notice of Hollywood, perhaps because it touched on experiences too deep and too subtle.

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This gallery is the last of my Capitol Reef photos and includes, in addition to this portrait of the...

Letting the Weather Choose

Dark clouds hovered in indecision today.

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Word of an Attack on America

Here in our nation at war, in this neighborhood only ten miles from the Pacific Ocean where the sampans and the dhows could land and end our freedom forever, sabotaging clouds bombarded us with spikes of rain.

A Ridiculous Rant from the Right

Whenever I heard a whine like this, I want to ask "Are you worried that you might be an obstructionist, James?"

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In Memory of Gertrude Jones

....her legacy is one of hope for the future, that we, as Americans, can pull away from the divisive and bloodthirsty domestic and international politics of this usurper administration and move once again towards the working/middle class heaven we were until the rise of Reagan and George Bush Sr.

On fucking up

I return to this passage whenever I feel I irretrievably blew it.

Bighorn Sheep

I have never seen a bighorn in the wild. Together with a sighting of pronghorn antelope, it remains an elusive thrill for me.

Critique

I've been thinking a lot about emotion and the critiques we deliver in writing groups.

Yule, Meet Angelyne

Be careful Yule. Angelyne is a much beloved LaLa Land Institution.

Bush Tops Vietnam Casualty Figures

Damn that Bush works fast!

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California Wildfires
Here's a photo site dedicated to California wildfires by a San Diego firefighter....

Pushy

You shoved me.

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Kristallnacht

The breaking glass that you hear may be the shattering of a nonviolent hope for peace in Israel and Palestine.

Tough Love

Not becoming a codependent is where the philosophy of Tough Love had its origins.

Getting a Gryphon Things

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One Neurotic

One neurotic can do a lot of damage to your life.

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Two Poetasters, Gloating

Did you hear he blew his brains out?

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Whining Parents

By the incremented rod of evolution, I am a failure. I have no children. I am not one of those people who calls himself "childless by choice". I am childless by circumstance.

Zoned

But this is how the mind of the marketer works. He/she discriminates between "winners" and "losers" (who often have the blues for good reason.)

Druggies at a Self-Con

Kathryn's experience makes me want to invent a way to induce hallucinations in the obnoxious. Like the sight of a crazed Dubya loading and aiming an assault rifle.

Enraptured Spamming?

Is this really "comment" on the article or just hubris-fired personal spam?

Church Sign

Make your own by clicking on the image!

Stieglitz and the Clouds

Every time Stieglitz introduced a revolution in photography that made it accessible to the common man and woman, art critics would deny it's portability to the mind of the ordinary human being.

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PATW
For what it is worth, I am now represented in Poets against the War....

Cruel Talk about Pfc. Jessica Lynch

I do not think it is my imagination when I observe women being among the harshest critics of Pfc. Jessica Lynch.

Lek Maniac?

Never have I seen such an outrageous display of balls in my life!

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Tragedy of the School Commons

We've changed as a society from one where older children took an active part in teaching the younger ones to this age segregation.

Photoblogs

I thought that I'd call attention to these two resources for bloggers.

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About the Guys With Confederate Flags on Their Pickups

The superficial attacks on Governor Dean, suggesting that he is racist, are plainly untrue and work to undermine the struggle to unseat the Pretender.

Pfc. Jessica Lynch & Sgt. Robert Ferriol

To those troops who have fought with their eyes open and their hearts against the Iraq Occupation, I tender my apologies for blanketing remarks that I made last spring.

Reflections on a Return from Vacation

I must admit that I played my part -- not minding my diabetes in the days following the Halloween washout and eating too much of the leftover candy -- but when I consider all evidence, the worst that can be said about me is that -- within the context of a self-fouled up body chemistry -- I failed to hold my temper in the face of a tantrum by another writer.

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Double Standard

Right is for harsh penalties against addicts in the so-called "War on Drugs" until one of their own is revealed as chemically dependent. Then we're told that "this is a special case" and we should "show mercy".

Critical Voices

"I'm having trouble visualizing this," say the old men who love thrillers.

Ice Blue and Indigo

Crumbled clouds smeared the face of the moon.

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New Categories
Every now and then I realize that a new theme has arisen and I need to add categories. Two more...

Sycamores

Sycamores or alisos as they are known in Spanish are a favorite shade tree in my neighborhood and they grow wild in the creek bottoms.

Too Much Information, Probably

The trail runs through open meadows and a subdivision. I was in the midst of the subdivision when Nature called.

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The Fires

What can we learn from the ashes?

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Photo Blogroll Being Updated
I'm revising my photography blogroll. If you happen to have a photoblog or know of a good one, could you...

Sleepy Hollow

I took a walk today through the underlight of Sleepy Hollow, a dusky green vale that begins a seasonal run of water to the sea in Whiting Wilderness.

Welcome Oh Daughter of The Gutless Pacifist
Please welcome Grace Lynn to the world....

The Consecration
Cassandra writes about the consecration of Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson. It's nice to have an eyewitness view instead of the...

Wicked Raven

Oh wicked black bird of wisdom!

Fruita Revisited

Apple trees and redrock cliffs. Lawns next to a turquoise river. Fields where cows graze and mule deer come out of the desert canyons to eat the grass and nibble the gnarly fruits that have fallen from the trees.

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Rocketing!

You just can't turn your back on a health problem.

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Spaghetti

They were curious, so I picked out a piece from the pasta pot and offered it to them.

Things were different in the 1950s

During the 1950s, high school seniors could watch stag films, get drunk, and dance with "pert" and "plucky" girls and not have a hard on!

Dead Peasants' Insurance
Check this out at Acts of Conscience....

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Rude Awakening in a Critique Group

Pardon me for waking you up to tell you this,

but I need my sleep.

Speculation, pure and simple

There's a big fear I have. That I will tell a joke or declaim a poem and someone will make a dogma out of it. Then stone me for not following it to the letter.

Coyote Gourd

You the earless one

keep my whispered secrets well.

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sally's life of leisure

The people who discomfit me are the ones who think that their life of chosen work entitles their opinions on anything to go unchallenged.

Temple Sought

I look at myself and think where is there the temple of beauty for the likes of me?

The UnOrthodox Photographer

"Keep moving. Look for the light."

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Non-co-optation

I've made a point to frequent blogs where the material roves with the mind of the writer. I prefer not to worry about those people who can't take the fact that I think for myself and choose my own subjects. I don't make it a ritual to open the newspaper and comment everyday -- what matters most to me is charting where I am.

I joined!

Void where prohibited (coming soon in the United States as soon as they repeal the First Amendment!)

Bush and The Fires

For Californians, the Bush Administration's failure to pre-empt the underlying causes of the California wildfires is our World Trade Center attack.

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Annoying Hiker Types

Marches to the destination, military style. As soon as he arrives, he turns back. No stopping to look. No point in his march except exercise. (So why doesn't he do it at the track?)

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One in Millions
Stolen from goddess chari and shamelessly endorsed: MILLIONS FOR MARRIAGE...

Shooting Peasants

"I shot two peasants," said the Russian.

Solar Cloud

I remember looking at the sun through the fumaroles earlier this week while I was out walking in Whiting and seeing a couple of definite spots on the surface.

The Murdoch Machine Does it Again

I'm with Christian on this: "is it too much to ask that someone who purports to see the fucking future might have the ability to pick out one of the 364 days this year when John Ritter was not going to kick off?"

Intelligent Design Network, Inc. Bears False Witness

I argue that, on the contrary, by promoting this ends justify the means attempt to seize hold of the American mind, Intelligent Design Network, Inc. is setting a hideous moral example for the youth they purport to "protect".

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