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It was a crow that first caught Frank Glick's attention. It was flying around erratically, so Glick got out his Nikon camera and followed it. It was around 6 a.m. on a hazy spring day and he was driving through Fort Snelling National Cemetery because he was early for a training meeting at Delta Airlines, where he works. Glick is an amateur photographer, but he always carries his camera, just in case. So he followed the crow, in some cultures a symbol of good luck and magic, until he saw it: a huge eagle perched on a tombstone, its eyes...

[Nazi Photo above] Manmade global warming skeptic “Lord Monckton has embarrassed himself and damaged his cause” for drawing lines from fascism to one climate alarmist, claimed Herald Sun columnist and blogger, Andrew Bolt. Really? For the record, I respect Andrew Bolt but fail to understand why he threw Lord Monckton under the bus, pressuring him to make an apology, he wouldn’t. Wrote he: Monckton is right to warn against the surrender to argument-by-authority. He is right to warn against the surrender of sovereignty to international bodies claiming to work for “the planet”. But he’s gone too far in this deeply...

While (South Park's) "The Book of Mormon" seeks to mock, "David Koresh Superstar" seeks to understand. ... Stone and Parker's referring to the musical as an "atheist's love letter to religion" rings truer than it might have had John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Graham Chapman made similar claims for Monty Python's Life of Brian 32 years ago. In light of recent events, one can't help wondering what fun Stone and Parker will have should they decide to set Harold Camping's recent eschatological follies to music. Or help wishing them Godspeed in the enterprise. Not to be...

Great Video. The video shows close-ups of the long form. It appears that the document was not typed at all, but, that all the letters were drawn freehand by an graphic artist. One could say it is Obama's "original Birth Certificate" in the sense that it is an original work of art.

Truth be told, a secret handshake was the only thing missing. There were odd one arm hugs, euphemism filled talk that would put the corporate Bullshit Bingo game to shame, rules, and rituals, all of which reminded me of the Catholic masses I attended as a boy, and the altar boys’ my age choreographed moves carrying an enormous Holy Book from one side of the altar to the other, and then, inexplicably, back again. Watching the proceedings I thought of Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton of the Honeymooners and their Loyal Order of Raccoons lodge. But there was nothing funny...

[Twitter Image Above.] Tom Hanks adores his “green” plugin car. I just don’t have the heart to tell him where electricity comes from.

Rep Anthony Weiner wants to share me with students! If Twitter doesn't like photos of me, Rep Weiner will find other ways to share me! Even if he must go door-to-door!!

Allen West and Sarah Palin at Rolling Thunder 5/29/11

DOWNLOAD: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/be-ok-united-for-joplin-single/id440229014 For the next 60 days, starting on May 26, 2011, The CO is donating 100% of net earnings on the brand new song "Be OK" to United Way and Heart of Missouri. Many families...hundreds of families have been affected by the travesty of this awful tornado outbreak ... and The CO is taking a stand to try and give a little back. Collin Brace grew up in Mexico, Missouri, and this place has deep ties to us, for sure. Take a stand with us. Download the song, and spread the word out. We are praying for you Missouri....

We did a circular 5 mile walk from The Parrot Inn, Forest Green. On the return leg we walked out of a wood and came to the Buttercup Field.

The Global Nuclear War between East and West began twenty-three years ago today, on Thursday, May 26, 1988, at 8:30 a.m. GMT. It started with a single Soviet nuclear missile detonated over the North Sea. The electromagnetic pulse from that blast blew out the phones and electrical power across northern Europe and brought Britain’s days as a technological society to an end. The 210 megatons of nuclear warheads that fell upon the island seven minutes later finished off everything else. And it was the same all over the world. No hiding place: by the end of the day, the former...

Once again, it is through the eyes of artists, who can see things as they should have looked, rather than as they merely were, that history can be recorded. It is melancholy to contemplate how the noble arts of painting and sculpture, which once did so much to illuminate the life and times of humanity, have festered in near oblivion these many years. Indeed, while in the scientific and mechanic arts the practitioners of our age may rightly smile with amusement upon the quaint efforts of former times, the same can hardly be said of those who wield the brush...

Then in 1990, browsing in a local discount bookstore I picked up a copy of “Exploring The West” by Herman J Viola and there, on page 240 was this picture, “Open Range”, painted by Maynard Dixon in 1942…..

Happy birthday to Bob Dylan, born May 24th, 1941. I’m not big on birthdays, to be honest. What difference does it really make that on one day you are technically one age, and the next day you’re technically another age? You’re as young as you feel, and the older I get, the more it pleases me to think so. There’s predictably been enormous hoopla over Bob Dylan turning 70, and at least 30 new books have been added to the groaning shelves of tomes analyzing, documenting and distorting his music and/or life. I should talk — I’ve written untold thousands...

I'm looking for a digital camera with no delay between shutter click and capture. Most have a 1-2 second delay. My grand daughter is into acrobatics and my daughter wants to take good pictures. Any help is welcome.

If you're afraid of flying, reading this post may or may not make it worse. On one hand it describes a story about the smell of a burning plane engine, the expressions of encumbered panic and the experience of coming to terms with death. On the other hand, everybody lives! Reuters photographer Beiwharta had just started to fall asleep on a flight with his family from Singapore to Jakarta when two loud bangs jolted him into a frightening reality. Based on Beiwharta's account of what came next, the activity on a crashing plane is just like you might imagine. The...

In a film that blends paleontological wonders with existential pondering, Cave of Forgotten Dreams asks the question, "What constitutes humanness?" German director Werner Herzog creeps deep into Chauvet Cave in southern France, where researchers say they have found the earliest known cave paintings. The charcoal paintings etched on the curved walls of the cave—some say from 32,000 B.C., others say 10,000 B.C.—look as though someone scratched them there last week. A landslide sealed the cave thousands of years ago, creating a perfectly preserved time capsule until explorers discovered it in 1994. Only a few scientists are allowed inside, and Herzog...

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If George Orwell were alive today he’d be censored by today’s Orwellian press-police. As America’s poshest-acting, bisexual neo-conservative, Christopher Hitchens points out in Why Orwell Matters (pages 79-80): It is true on the face of it that Orwell was one of the founding fathers of anti-Communism; that he had a strong patriotic sense and a very potent instinct for what we might call elementary right and wrong; that he despised government and bureaucracy and was a stout individualist; that he distrusted intellectuals and academics and reposed a faith in popular wisdom; that he upheld a somewhat orthodoxy in sexual matters...

If there is one thing Mel Gibson understands, it is damnation. The once-lauded actor was able to bring the concept to life in The Passion of the Christ, before the scandals that knocked him from his Hollywood throne and moral pulpit. In The Beaver, directed by and co-starring Jodie Foster, Gibson portrays a man crippled at first by regret and depression, then by the domination of a strange creature that was to be his salvation. Walter Black (Gibson) lies on his bed, paralyzed from what doctors diagnose as depression, although medical labels are inadequate for his existential crisis. The toy...