Does This Come With Work Release Privileges?

Jefferson City, Missouri.

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Got Nausea?

Why did the National Science Teachers Association turn down 50,000 copies of An Inconvenient Truth? The answer just might turn your stomach like it did mine. Click the link below to read more.



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Capitol Art

Stained glass ceiling from the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City.

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Bar Harbor Sunset

Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park, Maine.

Best wishes and a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my loyal readers.

Patriotism Misplaced?

The connecting corridor between the rental car garage and the old Terminal A at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is a mundane affair. Strictly utilitarian; not much to see. Taking the escalator up from the tunnel on the ground floor of the terminal, something caught my eye, and I stopped suddenly.

The painting was hanging on a wall several paces from the walkway, itself confined and not very well lit. The height was curious too, more appropriate for someone in a wheel chair. There was no placard with title or artist. I got the distinct feeling that this was not the original location of the painting. It had been moved here.

The painting was created in early 2002, that much I could tell. I tried to transport myself briefly back to that time. Things seemed to be much more focused in the months after the terrible tragedy. It was a rare time in this country's history that there was this much unity of purpose.

Now, looking at the heroic imagery (notice the POTUS with the bullhorn), I'm saddened. The current administration milked as much as they could, thinking that all they had to do was evoke these images and everything would be alright. But it wasn't alright. And by using the tragedy as currency, and squandering the currency, it has cheapened those who were honored in this very portrait. And I'm suddenly jolted back to 2006. Maybe the caretakers at the airport felt the same way.

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Rubens Tube Physics Experiment

Prerequisite: You must be a geek. Guaranteed to entertain.

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Waves and Gulls

The Navy-Marine Memorial, Washington, D.C. For more information about the memorial, click here.

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Off Season

During the summer, hundreds of thousands of visitors come here to Devil's Lake State Park to boat or fish in the lake, or to climb the bluffs surrounding the lake. So to have the park almost by yourself in the fall seems like a guilty pleasure.

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Backdoors

A different view of historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Kiwi!

Three minutes that will make you smile, and touch your heart.

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