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:  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 [...]

The Iraq war is over.  In truth it has been for a while, the last of the combat troops came home a fairly long time ago, over a year ago as I recall, as of last June there were no longer combat troops there, but now we no longer have a presence there. A beautiful [...]

It seems that the mainstream media has decided to start reporting on Occupy Wall Street.  And what happens?  80 people get arrested. And what were they charged with? Obstructing governmental administration.  Which is a load of crap.  These young men and women were walking down the street, and apparently following orders, staying within the orange [...]

Well, well.  Seems that not every war in Africa gets the same press that Libya does.  Guess oil gets press coverage. Now I won’t say that the war in Ivory Coast hasn’t been covered, it has, just not as much as the Libyan conflict, or the rest of the Arab spring revolutions.  But what is [...]