Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

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We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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Their freedom requires your slavery.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

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Re-inaugurating our reader photo series

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Here are a couple great pics sent in by readers in response to my request a week ago.

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A view of Kicker Rock through Darwin’s Window, on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos, by valued commenter Albatrossity.

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From the North America series, by Steve Jenks.

If you want to participate, email me a link to a couple of your favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put them up in open threads. Send a short caption if you want and let me know how you want to be identified. If your computer cannot read our email links at top right, my email is (remove the zeroes): portus0jackson0ii at yahoo dot com.

Reader Interactions

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    hovercraft

    Gorgeous pictures.
    @NotMax:
    This is a term from the BJ lexicon, meaning we don’t have to recognize any events occurring January 20, 2017.
    ETA: He fixed it :-(

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    Barbara

    Those are both beautiful, but I am a sucker for the textures and contrast of black and white photography, and that second image is just a stunning example.

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    Barbara

    @Roger Moore: Of all the things I have seen in my life, it’s the most ancient images that have really stuck with me. We toured the cave at Les Eyzies in France more than 20 years ago, and the polychrome images of animals that were made more than 15,000 years ago give a certain kind of perspective on life.

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    Gin & Tonic

    Here’s one I like. Death Valley fauna, July, 2016.

    I’m still trying to figure out this Flickr thing. Want to post photos without identifiable meatspace info, and send somehow just one link to one photo, the way raven does, without exposing the whole “photostream” or “camera roll” or whatever.

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    Steeplejack

    @Barbara:

    I highly recommend Werner Herzog’s documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which was discussed here within the last week or so.

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    Emma

    Wonderful stuff. I’ve always wanted to visit the Galapagos. And I have to see more of that North America series!

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    lurker dean

    @Gin & Tonic: i think what you want to do is:

    click on the pic in flickr you want to share. that will take you to a page which has only that one pic.

    on that page, click on the “right turn arrow,” which is the share icon.

    that will bring up another display, which will have a list of options including “BBCODE.” click on BBCODE.

    after you click BBCODE, there will be a really long link displayed on the page, below where it says BBCODE. this is where it gets a little tricky, but not so bad. highlight that really long link and copy it using Control-C.

    now paste that really long link somewhere. for example into a blank word document or a new blank email – i just usually open a new email, and then hit control-V to paste the link into the email body.

    now you can see that really long link in the email (or word doc or whatever). the really long “link” is actually made up of a few different links. copy the link that ends in .jpg. it starts with https: and ends with .jpg. that is a direct link to the image, without linking to your flickr page and showing your identity.

    one thing i’m not sure of is if you need to change the privacy setting on the pic for it to be publicly viewable. probably. but after you set that, you can still grab the direct link from the BBCODE.

    there may be an easier way to do this, but this is what i usually do, lol.

    here’s one of mine, a photo of the chocolate hills in the philippines:
    c3.staticflickr.com/9/8023/7607242914_1d0bb363ce_k.jpg

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    opiejeanne

    @Gin & Tonic: I don’t use such a long method when I post a link from flickr, but I do start with the right turn arrow; I use the http address, then use the linking process above the comment box. I don’t see any links to where I am at a given moment, but I may have turned off all of the location stuff because it’s not even showing where this was taken or it might have been an old camera lacking that info:

    New Mexico Blue Gate

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    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    Be sure to edit EXIF or other metadata if you send phone or camera pics and have the device set to record location and other identifying information that you wouldn’t be comfortable sharing with the whole wide intertubes.

    Me? I don’t care if everyone digs into my pics and sees that they were taken with an LGE Nexus 5 or a Nikon Coolpix P530. :D

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