Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

I really should read my own blog.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Bark louder, little dog.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

All hail the time of the bunny!

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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Picture of Max.

Max on the hill

Not much to say about the mechanics of this pic. It illustrates what I said before about holding the camera low; in this case I held it real low, almost touching the ground, and used the GH2’s fold-out LCD to compose. I got close to the dog with my 20mm lensCorrection: I used my manual 50mm lens and focused by hand on Max’s eye. The aperture was fairly wide to blur background and I just snapped away until I got a few that I like. The most important part was keeping an eye on the light to find a moment when Max flopped down on a spot on the grass lit softly by late-day light, then I circled around to get a perspective with the light coming from off to one side to emphasize Max’s dimensionality.

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    Walker

    The current adds I am seeing on this site are for defending against a dividend tax hike. With what looks like a blue collar worker. Since when does a blue collar worker earn enough from dividends to give a damn?

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    trollhattan

    Lord, I wish my dog would tolerate being photographed, much less “pose.” Grumble, grumble. Mister Max, he’s a star and seems to know it. Also, too, photos leaked today of apparent Canon mirrorless system cam. Very bland design, but that’s no surprise from the Toyota of camera makers.

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    muddy

    Here’s my dog Sawyer having fun at the millpond.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/mudpix/7611735192/in/photostream
    We did not see minks this week. Some kids piled up rocks from the shoreand made a little dam to make it deeper, I liked that, the dog not so much. He loves the water but not to swim. I made him come out but he was swimming vertically, which was really inefficient for him. He needs to stop trying to get his back toes down to the bottom.

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