Wow, this thing is still on

The new version of Chrome reminded me this was here. Have a photo of Emerson, Shemp, and Palmer.

Criminals-in-Chief

Esquire's Charles Pierce as quoted by Glenn Greenwald:

This is why the argument many liberals are making - that the drone program is acceptable both morally and as a matter of practical politics because of the faith you have in the guy who happens to be presiding over it at the moment -- is criminally naive, intellectually empty, and as false as blue money to the future. The powers we have allowed to leach away from their constitutional points of origin into that office have created in the presidency a foul strain of outlawry that (worse) is now seen as the proper order of things. 

If that is the case, and I believe it is, then the very nature of the presidency of the United States at its core has become the vehicle for permanently unlawful behavior. Every four years, we elect a new criminal because that's become the precise job description.

Criminals in high office is nothing new but their balls are getting a lot bigger and brassier.

The Peace Corps Dream

At one time or another I've thought about joining the Peace Corps so this dream didn't come as any sort of surprise. In my dream, I'm in the Peace Corps in Surinam. Everyone speaks Surinamese which is curiously very much like English. New farming equipment is coming in courtesy of Taco Bell and I have to make sure everything goes smoothly. Instead of boating it in, the gear lands on someone's house. Luckily no one dies and no one complains. We decide to piece it together with instructions downloaded from the internet. We are missing many pieces but then we have a magnificent dinner. The end.

The Kinks Dream

I had a dream I was a band member of the Kinks during the 1970s. Sometimes I was Ray Davies and sometimes I was Dave Davies and sometimes I was an anonymous keyboard player (Nicky Hopkins?) who took marching orders from Ray but not Dave. I was never Mick Avory or Pete Quaife. We seemed to be singing "See My Friend" and stuff from Muswell Hillbillies a lot. We were also chimney sweeps and sang and danced like the chimney sweeps in Mary Poppins but the chimney sweeps of Mary Poppins were like a rival gang across town. One day, I was singing a Kinks song in a green field that looked like classic English countryside and it was very windy. Someone held their hand out to me and when I took it, I woke up.

One Week Left!!!

I should've posted this here earlier but it's on the other blog. 11 x 14 C-prints for sale! Make an offer.

Take a Step Back

I don't why people don't. I drove that sign and helped install it. Pictured: Randy and Swain.

Color-coded closets

I read a post about how to color-code your closet and then I had a really bad nightmare about melted crayons and fingerpaints in my closet.