Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealers and other Un-American Scoundrels

The good people of Reason.TV ( I have no idea who they are or what they represent) have put together a pair of remarkable attack ads taken directly from the words of Jefferson and Adams, the point being that this "crazy" political climate we find ourselves in this year is nothing new.

Quit Bothering Jesus

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Original image from the inspirational collection of the talented Roger Loveless.

America from an iPhone

Alison Turner is a photographer roaming the country with her dog. I first saw her images of Airstreams, which lead me to investigate her other works.

Here's a slide show of pictures taken with her iPhone, set to the haunting "Society" by Eddie Vedder.

Why can't my iPhone do this?

American Autumnal

The air is slightly cooler, which is nice, but there's barefoot football in the park and we're still watering lawns down here in La Florida in mid-October. From this past weekend.

Diagramming the play

Nike

Flag and sprinkler

Meanwhile, in the Graveyard of Empires

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Original illustration by Rudy Pott, sometime in the 1950s.