Flag Wedged In Tree
Big Cove Community
Huntsville, Al
December, 2008

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This was taken just a couple of days ago on an obscure back road. I have photographed this scene a couple of times and I drove by again hoping the fog would set in and give me a softer background. Unfortunately that didn't happen, but the cow provided a nice backdrop!

January 3, 2009

Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong ::

Fascinating!

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January 1, 2009

Dec. 2008 Front Cover Of Harper's Magazine ::

I haven't gotten my issue yet, but this is delicious!

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Over at Left In Alabama regular poster Redeye has a nice piece on right-wing happenings at the University Of Alabama In Birmingham which have also been reported on by Scott Horton in Harper's!

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A Cartoon For The New Year ::

In the hopes that there will be new hope in the coming year! This is a David Horsey cartoon from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

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You can download a printer friendly version here, or you can purchase a print.

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December 30, 2008

Israel Vs. The Palestinians ::

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Bob Herbert On The Outgoing Bush ::

From this mornings NY Times:

When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country...

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The catalog of his transgressions against the nation’s interests — sins of commission and omission — would keep Mr. Bush in a confessional for the rest of his life. Don’t hold your breath. He’s hardly the contrite sort.

He told ABC’s Charlie Gibson: “I don’t spend a lot of time really worrying about short-term history. I guess I don’t worry about long-term history, either, since I’m not going to be around to read it.”

The president chuckled, thinking — as he did when he made his jokes about the missing weapons of mass destruction — that there was something funny going on.

A master of understatement would say that this is a critical review of the Bush administration!

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2008 According To Jib-Jab ::

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December 28, 2008

Obama Faces The Bubble! ::

This bit from The Politico is interesting and I do feel sorry for the loss of privacy that any president and, by extension, the family faces.

The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.

Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to chafe at boundaries that are only going to get smaller.

Obama even took the unusual step Friday morning of leaving behind the pool of reporters assigned to follow him, taking his daughters to a nearby water park without them. It was a breach of longstanding protocol between presidents (or presidents-elect) and the media, that a gaggle of reporters representing television, print and wire services is with his motorcade at all times.

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Delaney Bramlett Passes Away ::

A true musical genius! Here's the AP obit:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Delaney Bramlett, the singer-songwriter-producer who penned classic rock songs such as "Let it Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday. He was 69.

Bramlett died shortly before 5 a.m. at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gall-bladder surgery, his wife Susan Lanier-Bramlett said.

Born in Mississippi, Bramlett enjoyed a career in the music business that spanned 50 years.

He is perhaps best known for standards such as "Superstar," co-written with Leon Russell, which was recorded by Usher, Luther Vandross, Bette Midler, The Carpenters and most recently, Sonic Youth, in a version featured on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of the movie "Juno."

He co-wrote "Let it Rain" with British guitarist Clapton, who also recorded it, and "Never Ending Song of Love," which was recorded by more than 100 artists including Ray Charles, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakam.

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December 27, 2008

Saturday Morning Catblogging ::

Bob Geiger is taking a few days off so there are no cartoons today, but here is a new photograph of Missy:

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December 26, 2008

Don't Let The Door ::

hit you on the ass on your way out!

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Today's CNN poll results!

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"No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy
"Go Down, Moses" by William Faulkner
"The Plague" by Albert Camus (a reread)
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"Armed Madhouse" by Greg Palast
"The Fall" by Albert Camus
"The Last Gentleman" by Dr. Walker Percy
"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus
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