The Decemberist logs four historic debates about executive power in recent history. he logs and comments on the precedents, and then works Bush into the mix
someone hunts a deer with a howitzer.


Carracci. 18th Century, ITalian, mostly known for his ott jesus in heavens with whipped cream cloud stuff

Albert Von Keller, German, 19th/20th century
Both from:The Rare Erotica Blog

The batshit preacher from ST Louis, SM Davis, Fill in the Blank sermons---MadLibs ahoy.


Thomas Kincaide sculpture of Jesus as Harbour (like the painting fredreick church did in the 1850s, with a liberty figure as high as the mountains striding the great plains)

A Toronto Conceptual Artist posts 105 pictures of his toothpaste on his toothbrush...this man is a genius.


SF made out of Jello

Jamie Hilder is a poet, and print maker, who makes giant signs with amusing slogans that hang over highway overpasses...he is also a really clever essayist, and this history named after one of his peices, is basically SI 101, but smarter then most.

MS Magazine reports on Solider Rape in the US Miltary, i know they tend to panic, but they b/c of their postion, are the only ones picking this up. The US Miltary has commoisend 18 reports in 15 years, and the rapes keep hapeening, in the current theater of operations, in the schools that teach and in american bases.

ELmo asks toddlers Who Wants to DIe


1960 Motorla Illustration of Perfect housing
more here

Chinese Marxistsvisit Trier, where Marx was born. They shop, they listen to scandal, they dont eat the pralines, and they go home. Farcical.

Russiashuts off Ukraines supplies of National Gas, and then offers a loan so that they can pay for the increased prices--strangely like a landlord tennant dispute--and is really indicitve of the empire building and parcholism in which Putin sees the former soviet republics.

British documents surrounding issues of torture, the false war, the downing street memos, and other embarrasments to Blair's legacy.

essay and extensive pictures of the Kirkbride asylums, a method of containment in the last 19th century, that was both humane and solved a number of needs for a number of patients--qouting the site:
Dr. Kirkbride envisioned an asylum with a central administration building flanked by two wings comprised of tiered wards. This "linear plan" facilitated a hierarchical segregation of residents according to sex and symptoms of illness. Male patients were housed in one wing, female patients in the other. Each wing was then sub-divided by ward with the more "excited" patients placed on the lower floors, farthest from the central administrative structure, and the better-behaved, more rational patients situated in the upper floors and closer to the administrative center. Ideally, this arrangement would make patients' asylum experience more comfortable and productive by isolating them from other patients with illnesses antagonistic to their own while still allowing fresh air, natural light, and views of the asylum grounds from all sides of each ward.
almost all of the kirkbrides are no longer in use, and in various states of disrepair--instutional buildings (prisons, asylums, hospitals) tend to avoid being saved by heritage foundations, for mostly superstitous reaons, which is a real shame, the pictures have a tragic eerieness...

Manassas "Virginia restricts households to immediate relatives, even when the total is below the occupancy limit". The law is essentially racist, intended to elimanate new immigrants, and Latino/as, who are more likely to live with extended families