Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He really is that stupid.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

I really should read my own blog.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Bark louder, little dog.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

This really is a full service blog.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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Elma

Here is the second installment of my Waterfalls, from the remaining two continents I have visited.  Although technically, New Zealand isn’t a continent; but I didn’t see anything like a waterfall in Australia.

The pictures from Switzerland 1990 were originally slides, which still look great if projected but didn’t convert to digital images so well.  My brother-in-law worked for a Swiss owned company and was sent to work in the home office for a year.  I dragged a reluctant husband and two terminally bored teenagers for a visit.  They lived in the town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall, so of course we went to see the Rhine Falls.

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Basel Switzerland

Why did you bring us here???  I should note that in the years since both the kids have turned into enthusiastic world traveler.  Jim never did.

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Neuhausen am Rheinfalls Switzerland
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Neuhausen am Rheinfalls Switzerland

The 80’s were barely over.  I accept no responsibility for the clothes.

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New Zealand, South Island
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New Zealand, South Island
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Milford Sound New Zealand

Our tour group took a boat trip on Milford Found.  Captain Cook was wrong, it is not a sound but rather a fjord.

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Milford Sound New Zealand
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Milford Sound New Zealand

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    Chris T.

    What’s that phrase about New Zealand, something like “if you drop a camera and it accidentally takes a photo it will be amazing”? It’s true…

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    MelissaM

    TLC was wrong, chase waterfalls! Especially in New Zealand. Also “look at the Americans and their shoes!”

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    cope

    What lovely pictures, thank you for letting us see them.  I’m glad your kids wised up about the splendors of travel.  When I was still teaching, I always told my high school students to go on any trip to anywhere they ever had a chance to go.

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    dr. luba

    I took a 1 km hike in Australia to see a waterfall, and didn’t.  Apparently it was seasonal, and the season was quite short……

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    Elma

    @Origuy:  Thank you for that info.  That means I did two continents in one trip.  We spent a week in Zeelandia and 2+ weeks in OZ.

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    J R in WV

    I’m pretty late getting here, but great photos, even the scanned slides. There are special scanners for slides and negatives. I managed to scan an 80-y-o negative in a box of old family photos from my grandma’s home, used GNU Image Manipulation Program to edit into a pretty swell photo.

    Used a Canon all in one printer/fax/scanner to image the negative, then used software to flip it into a positive image. Lots of luck there too.

    Your photos are great, make me want to travel somewhere, anywhere, asap. After the Trump Plague is over.

    Thanks for sharing!

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