Defying Spacetime: Cheney’s Former House Magically Reappears

The Vice-President’s mansion is once again visible on Google Maps. View Larger MapDoes anyone else detect the aroma of Soviet-style “Revisionist History” here?  I saw this happen first-hand when I worked as a newspaper editor in Venezuela. ...

A Command of Invective

I bow & grovel in the shadow of such lovely invective as this, which appeared just yesterday on Sadly, No!In terms of art, it ought to be said that the greatness of a Pastor Swank, of a Mark Noonan or a John Hinderaker — the quality which raises them above the...

Circuit City Bankruptcy – Shopaholic Feeding Frenzy

Optimism or Greed? For the last couple of months, I’ve been hearing financial experts mutter about “frustrated money sitting on the sidelines, waiting to get back into the game.”   I was not convinced – most of the market behavior since the...

HDR Sunset

This is another one of my experiments with HDR photography. Once again, I’ve blended three exposures together in the hopes of revealing greater color depth and bringing out the details.  The tonemapping functions of Photomatix once again leave much to be...

Stuff Journalists Like

STUFF JOURNALISTS LIKE. Just one more thing. This is hilarious … well, at least to journalists it is.  To outsiders, it’s probably the equivalent of taxidermists guffawing over someone using the wrong type of agates in Grampa Palin’s stuffed...