Pic of the day:  Sternbrucke in Weimar, by Christian Rohlfs ___________________________ I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah. Now, if that isn’t a hazard [...]

Pic of the day:  Hagar and Ishmail in the Desert, by Andrea Sacchi __________________________ We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that [...]

Pic of the day:  Whistler’s Mother, by James Whistler ___________________________ Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully [...]

Pic of the day:  Apollo 15; Southern seas, Lyot and Humboldt craters ________________________ Today is only going to be a few favorite quotes of mine from a favorite book from years gone by.  The book is Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.  Most of the books I read now are of the Ronald [...]

Pic of the day: Portrait of a man with a Lute, by Hans Holbein the Younger. This is here because Han Holbein never painted a predator drone once. Damnably rude of him, being inconveniently born 500 years or so early. _________________________ I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: For we ought not to [...]