Washington is now Buffalo

HAPPY 2010!!!

Fall advances toward winter

Two weeks ago, as fortune would allow, the weekend skies were not dominated by November's persistent gray but were unseasonably blue and the temperature was a warm low 70s.

A friend and I went hiking along the riverbank of the Potomac and were able to enjoy the last glimpse of Indian Summer. Surely, there will probably be more warm spells due to global warming, but the fact of the approach of winter cannot be denied. The days are shorter, the coats heavier, the wool hats and scarves, the gloves come out from storage.

Like many of you, I'm sure, I've been very dispirited by the manufactured rage against Health Care reform of any type being waged in town halls across the nation. Luckily, not all Senators and Congressmen were caught unaware by the backroom orchestrations going on. The memos went on on the 'net and elsewhere, including the chief Capitalist/Republican pipe organ, FauxNews.

Watch the following clip and listen how Vidal mentions that the Right is masterful of projecting their own faults onto their opponents. This is especially relevant in terms of how Obama was labeled first a communist, and lately, a Fascist (with capital "F") and a Racist. Somehow the man who was raised by a white mother turned into the bastard love child of Angela Davis and Malcolm X once elected, and "hates white people."

I recommend watching other RealNews youtube clips with Gore Vidal. He can be pompous and elitist, but damn if he isn't right on the money.

So, it's already August. It seems summer just goes by so quickly. Earlier, in July, I had a nice week-long stay in New England where I saw fireworks over the lake front in New Hampshire followed by a stay in Provincetown for about a week. Both events were very enjoyable.

The New York Times has an article about how Beirut is becoming the Provincetown of the Middle East. The analogy just doesn't quite fit right. I mean, really, the bars in P-town close at 1:00 AM, which is early by any U.S. standard...it's never been quite the party town that more decadent places like South Beach and New Orleans can brag about. I also worry that calling attention to the sliver of tolerance on the Mediterranean would just paint those places as the next targets of Hezbollah or even worse, the Phe1ps Family.
Maybe the tiny country sees a cash cow in being slightly more fun and less of a war-torn mess like it was for too long. I've read essays where a theory was set forth that the entire Middle East has been changed by the goings-on in Iran right now. With Ahmadinejad's stolen election and a general discontent over the ruling Ayatollahs the change could not come too soon.

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I've given consideration to closing this place down. Either start a new blog, or just give up the enterprise entirely. I've wanted to buy a camera so that all pictures shown would be from my own eye, and not lifted shamelessly from the abundant internet. I know I'm not a great writer, and I've felt I really don't have much to say that is said elsewhere better. Like I said, I'm thinking about it.

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Right now my hair is getting out of control. Getting it cut tomorrow. Reminds me of the Seventies when everyone had so much wonderful bushy, long, blow-dried hair. This is a great song to listen to with the top down and wearing sunglasses on the way to the beach. Keeping in the summer theme, a blast from the past:



Special thanks to MoondogMayne for this Youtube clip.

Some things I can watch over and over again...

Love the little guy in leather, especially...thanks to my friend Dan Nash for the tip.