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: 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 [...]

Pic of the day:  The Outcast, by Sandro Botticelli “Dammit, I forgot to make the coffee, booohooohooo…” ___________________________ Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among [...]

Pic of the day:  Victor Dubreuil, Money To Burn ___________________________ For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the [...]

Pic of the day:  Detail of the mosaic of the Battle of Issus, showing Alexander the Great and Bucephelus. ___________________________ If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever. The saying that “All abilities come from one mind” sounds as though it has to do with sentient [...]