rudder?

Is it the ship of state or a ship of fools? Or Obama in the guise of George Washington, but instead of crossing the Delaware, he's floating in the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs in the background, surrounding by the canyons of Wall Street. The party of "No" have come along for the ride.

who asked them?

These people photographed in front of the White House have become the symbolic face of opposition to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." I placed a few of the most renowned warriors and military leaders with them. Alexander the Great, Hadrian, the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Hoplites, generally, all managed success at war while being homosexual.

mired in oil

What happens in Chicago stays in Chicago.

Don't Forget to Flush

Reflections on reports that sensitive wetlands around the Gulf of Mexico may be impossible to repair.

Tea Party for Sarah

hottest in the entire 130-year record for the planet

source of the graph:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/the-graph-that-should-be_b_582434.html?page=5&show_comment_id=47844242#comment_47844242

The Plan

Glenn Beck claims he will be giving us our marching orders from on high

Same mood different century

. Kathe Kollwitz's Peasant Uprising never loses its relevance. I've connected it here to the current anti-incumbent mood of the voters. Forget record of service. Forget the corrupting influence of the system. Let's just throw those bums and bumettes out.

Congressional Oversight Hearings

Falling

Summer Vacation 2010 - At the Beach

Global warming

Dominion

Wonder if Somebody wishes "He" could revisit that whole "dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heaven thing"????

The Big Shorts