Archive July 2009

Conservative Democrats Have All the Qualities

Of a Dog, Except LoyaltyThe "Blue Dog" Democrats of the Congress, are selling all of us out and down the river to safeguard their contributions from the Pharmacologists, the Insurance Industry, and anyone else with more money than us.They have begun to call their little cabal dedicated to blowing up ...

Quote of the Week

goldsmith-2003-hersch Seymore Hersch Has SpokenFrom The Daily Beast I said what I said, they can always say what they say,” Hersh told TheDaily Beast. “The last time they said the government doesn’t torture, this time it’s the government doesn’t assassinate.Hersch was right about My Lai, he was right often enough ...

Munem Wasif in Guardian Weekend Magazine

Images by photographer Munem Wasif of partner agency Agence VU were featured in the June 20th, 2009 edition of Guardian Weekend Magazine in London. The piece, titled “Shrimp Farming - A Sea of Tears”, documents the struggles facing shrimp farmers in the villages of south Bangladesh. Wasif visited Bangladesh ...

Tuesday Open Thread

I'm home sick.The kids have been working on getting my belongings packed and the home and yard clean so I can put the house on the market. Another two-three weeks and we'll be ready.Once my house sells (which I expect to happen fairly quickly as I'm pricing the house to ...

Clay McLachlan Cover of The Times 2 Magazine

Aurora photographer Clay McLachlan’s image of a 14-day-old baby girl is featured on the cover of the June 29, 2009 issue of The Times 2 Magazine in London. To view more work by Clay McLachlan, visit Aurora Photos.

Life is Just

(click to embiggify, and truly understand) Yeah, It's That GoodThe strikingly beautiful and wonderfully kind April has arrived, and is eating a breakfast of Temecula strawberries, Irish Oatmeal, and buttermilk. This afternoon my dear friend "Chaplain Charlie" is coming to grab some perfectly fresh fish stuff at the legendary Point ...

Jose Azel Image on Book Cover

Aurora photographer Jose Azel’s image of socks drying on a clothesline in the Faroe Islands of Denmark is featured on the cover of Het Wenshuis by author Anne B. Ragde, a book published in the Netherlands by De Geus. To view more work by Jose Azel, visit Aurora Photos.

Bridget Besaw Creates Multimedia Stories for The Nature Conservancy

Aurora photographer Bridget Besaw is the photographer, videographer, interviewer and executive producer (along with Nature Conservancy Magazine) of a 10-part multimedia series titled, Salmon Country. The culmination of the project is a seven minute overview video and 9 two minute shorts on The Nature Conservancy website. A photo essay will ...

Red State Swoons and Swan Songs

Over on C&L they pointed to a long-ish post on Red State by Erik Erikson where Erikson rambles on and on about poor Sarah Palin, and the mean-old Media, and us damn lefties and comics torturing her kids-- and then he posts his own theories about why Caribou Barbi actually ...

America’s Shame

Forty-three percent of homeless men over 25 are veterans, although veterans represent only 27% of men over 25 in the population at large.(Photo: Odonnell Parker, homeless Vietnam veteran, Vietnam Memorial, Washington, DC,by Evan Robinson, Group News Blog, 20090602)This is Odonnell Parker. I met him at the Vietnam Memorial on ...

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