Ever since we moved into our current house I have had a low hum in my system. I know that I should add a ground rod and tie it to the power panel but it is figgin cold outside. This little box should at least help me eliminate the hum from my computer.
“I am a journalist,” and “The truth shall set me free.” – James O’Keefe III tweeted shortly after being arrested for planting bugs in Louisiana Democratic Sen Mary Landrieu’s office.
This is the same guy who secretly recorded Acorn employees telling him how to set up a brothel.
Could the Republicans be reopening their “rat-fucking” program from the Nixon era.
Also, there is a local news moment in all of this. Joseph Basel, one of Mr. O’Keefe’s co-defendents, went to college at UofM Morris where he started a conservative newsletter in reaction to what he thought was overwhelming liberal presence on campus.
So Arnold wants to build jails in Mexico to hold illegal immigrants who commit crimes in California.
Why not? It is a great place to start rebuilding the broken Californian society.
Another thing he could do is privatize the judicial system. Court buildings and employees cost California a hell of a lot of money. He could also bring in private security forces to replace state police. Why should crime cost citizens even a dime? Really when it comes down to it why should society have to get mixed up in crime and justice at all? We are the victims after all.
I’m not completely sure if the Shins are kaput or just on hiatus. It seems singer James Russell Mercer is teaming up with Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) to form the new band Broken Bells. Here is their first output, The High Road.
The Big Picture : 2009 in photos – The Boston Globe photo blog is consistently the most beautiful and sad site on the web. This is part 1 of 3.
Hackers release Decaf to combat Cofee : Microsoft released a series of tools to Law Enforcement. They called it Cofee. Now hackers have a tool to combat it called Decaf.
Smith Mag, home of the 6 Word Memoirs and many great webcomics, has a new series called The Pekar Project. It is a serial webcomic written by legendary Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor.
The first in the series features a conversation between Harvey and Robert Crumb. Harvey is writing a libretto for an opera and is lementing the lack of support for the avante garde in todays music and art.
Rembrandt’s Lucretia, 1666. Minneapolis Institute of Art
The painting and legend of Lucretia were the historical highlight of the SyFy Network’s premiere of Warehouse 13. The show is about 2 Secret Service agents who are drafted into a secret organization that hunts down supernatural items and safely stores them in a location know as Warehouse 13.
I thought the show was all right but the topic of Lucretia got me thinking about the painting of her that is at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I have always found the painting to be haunting and the story behind her rape and suicide horrendous. You can read the history of Lucretia here and here.
The painting used in the television show was not the MIA painting but some unknown one, possibly made up for the plot of the show. The one at the MIA was painted by Rembrandt. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. also has an earlier version painted by Rembrandt.
In 1992 the MIA and the National Gallery had an exhibit bringing the two paintings together titled “Rembrandt’s Lucretias”. I remember the exhibit being fantastic and a little digging brought me to the text of the exhibit’s brochure.
