Some light reading ...

Here ya go:

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/losing-the-bill-of-rights/

Sort of re-definition of who the bad guys are, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

Who benefits from wars? - Further educational reading

Sorry to intervene in the seasonal gush of niceness, but I wanted to highlight a bit of commentary that seems appropriate as we look forward to our troops ending their mission in Afghanistan ( ... any bets on the actual date?)

Enjoy!

http://c4ss.org/content/1558

What corporation are you fighting for?

And for another historical look at this modus operandi, check out this article from Ray McGovern:

http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2009/12/22/break-the-cia-in-two/

Something to which one can look forward ...

Pianos on the quarterdeck ....



.... and guys for whom one sax ain't enough :



Won't be long now!

Flowerzilla returns!

This thing just popped open in the dining room the other day! Doesn't it know that it's winter outside?

-20C in Ottawa, but not down here ...

... was it really three years ago that we visited this place? ...





It's feeling like the time to have another warm adventure, methinks.

Glenn Greenwald, nails it again

Here's a pretty clear exposition of what really drives our government's anti-human activities:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/18/corporatism/index.html

With increasing corporate control of all the media to which we are exposed, is it any wonder we never get to hear about the arguments Glenn Greenwald advances?

Whimsy from the past

A friend, Tim Nugent, hand-painted these ties for me about ten years ago. They were too good to wear so Anna framed them.




They should really be seen by more people.

It's coming ...

It started one morning this fall when we saw this:




... and then last week we saw this horror!...




AAGgghhhh... winter!