View larger image All of us here at Dakota are deeply ashamed of the abject stupidity of our fellow Massachusetts voters who "wanted change" and effected quite the opposite by electing that picture pretty truck sucker Scott Brown who...
Posted in Dakota on February 5, 2010 11:31 AM
I dreamed I held my dying friend in my arms tenderly stroking her freckled cheek although she has no freckles and then we rode all the way down the elevator from atop a skyscraper express to the bottom where...
Posted in Dakota on October 6, 2009 03:55 PM
View larger image All of us here at Dakota are dying to land a big cybersmack on Judge Jed Rakoff's white whiskers because he ruled today that a mere $33 million settlement between the SEC and the Bank of...
Posted in Dakota on September 14, 2009 03:54 PM
View larger image All of us here at Dakota have a pathological resistance to new technology, since it generally requires reading a manual. Unlike Oprah, we have a limited technical staff to explain things to us, and have therefore...
Posted in Dakota on May 13, 2009 07:55 PM
View larger image The pandemic alert shot up to level 5, and David Kirby scooped all of us here at Dakota. We have been combing the internet all day hoping that someone in the mainstream press would connect the...
Posted in Dakota on April 27, 2009 12:24 PM
bad blog block beating brain for brilliant banter begging for a bolt from blue but bees in bonnet bypass basal ganglia big boogers blocking brainstorms better blow before bedlam breaks out Photo note: Cute but blocked - a metaphorophoto...
Posted in Dakota on April 13, 2009 02:32 PM
Looking through the camera lens at the dirty car window and the dirty garage window through the dirty garage and the pegboard nailed to yet another dirty garage back window at the gutter on the side of the neighbor's...
Posted in Dakota on March 19, 2009 08:12 PM
View larger image As you know, all of us here at Dakota are deeply concerned about your development as an informed citizen Thus we worried that you might have missed Obama's inspiring speech at the Lincoln Banquet due to...
Posted in Dakota on February 14, 2009 10:22 AM
View larger image Here's the question, if a person purchases or otherwise acquires stolen goods, are they responsible for relinquishing those goods when the theft is discovered so that they may be returned to their rightful owner? Has the...
Posted in Dakota on January 26, 2009 01:39 PM
View larger image The headline on Dan Eggen's Washington Post piece reads "'My Heart and My Values Didn't Change' In Bush, Loyalists See a Good and Steadfast Man Who Has Gotten a Bad Rap". Poor Baby In a saavy...
Posted in Dakota on December 12, 2008 04:38 PM
bad cold brings blog to screeching halt lame excuse poor little pumpkin Photo note: metaphorophoto for current condition of sinus and nasal passages View larger image...
Posted in Dakota on December 10, 2008 07:50 AM
View larger image As Obama assembles his team he is also setting a precedent. It seems that he expects those who join his administration to be, and to have been honest and forthcoming. He expects as much of himself....
Posted in Dakota on December 2, 2008 09:08 PM
View larger image Wearing a turkey hat does not lend itself to writing a blog exchanged today for a thinking cap Photo note: Poorly exposed, surreptitious metaphorophoto - an explanation of sorts for a long absence - notice the...
Posted in Dakota on December 1, 2008 11:20 AM
View larger image All of us here at Dakota have been busy realigning. The energy switch in the ether has been palpable. You know, the switch from thinking about what you want , rather than what you don't want....
Posted in Dakota on November 13, 2008 07:32 PM
all of us here at Dakota cannot believe the flood of relief and hope we feel today we weep with joy consciousness emerged the coup averted the power of love has triumphed over the love of power Hallelujah Photo...
Posted in Dakota on November 5, 2008 08:49 AM
View larger image Just in case you haven't heard, there's gonna be all kinds of big trouble voting nationwide --- in Georgia, in North Carolina, in Colorado, in Ohio, in West Virginia and among students . There's a history...
Posted in Dakota on October 27, 2008 03:44 PM
View larger image We thought we'd add a few pertinent facts to the pile of McCain-Palin transgressions, before their campaign goes up in flames. Ladies first. The Village Voice sent Wayne Barrett to Alaska to do a little moose...
Posted in Dakota on October 15, 2008 11:16 AM
View larger image Now that the Republicans have devastated the economy, robbed us of our life savings, eradicated our Constitution, disemboweled every government agency (and restaffed them with ideological idiots), devastated the environment, established a police state, ruined relations...
Posted in Dakota on September 29, 2008 09:31 AM
View larger image Charles Gibson, the interviewer, asked her if she didn’t hesitate and question whether she was experienced enough. “I didn’t hesitate, no,” she said. He asked if that didn’t that take some hubris. “I answered him yes,”...
Posted in Dakota on September 14, 2008 06:47 PM
View larger image While we were distracted by The New Revelations of Mrs. Pee (key word: oxycontin), Slick Dick slipped into Condi's pants, and bulldozed what little is left of her unspeakable legacy like it was a Palestinian settlement....
Posted in Dakota on September 9, 2008 07:17 AM
View larger image closer We are still possessed by Sarah Palin, and it's no laughing matter. All of us here at Dakota are decidedly shrill on the subject of Sarah. None of us wants to have a beer with...
Posted in Dakota on September 8, 2008 03:41 PM
View image An excellent letter to the editor of the Boston Globe entitled "Palin Family's Private Life Is A Public Issue" We have been instructed repeatedly over the past few days that Sarah Palin's family and private life are...
Posted in Dakota on September 2, 2008 07:06 PM
View larger image What's a fundamentalist in the spotlight to do when her sixteen year old's abstinence training fails and a little bundle of political inconvenience is on the way. Solve the problem the old fashioned way. What more...
Posted in Dakota on September 1, 2008 05:43 AM
we fear you missed Dennis Kucinich waking up America at the DNC we hope Nancy was paying attention this time the media wasn't Photo note: Flags and double triangles -- notice the light penetrating the field of stars on...
Posted in Dakota on August 27, 2008 09:54 PM
We're taking it easy this week getting back in the groove counting on the snappy minds of others to do Dakota work and they have those anthropologists who took on YouTube and made a film which when viewed will...
Posted in Dakota on August 21, 2008 08:20 PM
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Posted in Dakota on August 19, 2008 06:35 PM
View larger image Okay, time to stop being duped and put on our thinking caps around here, because the criminals we elected (and didn't) in 2000 are at it again, and folks are dropping like flies (not just in...
Posted in Dakota on August 1, 2008 04:46 PM
View larger image Since we're all in a flap about gas prices (why, pray tell, has the extra $35 most of us will pay this summer for gas caused such apoplexy, when our underwear should have been in gordian...
Posted in Dakota on July 22, 2008 06:45 PM
View larger image One of the few things we have in common with John McCain, our jowls not withstanding, is our abject ignorance about the economy. With the thought of plumping up a few atrophied brain cells. we have...
Posted in Dakota on July 11, 2008 12:01 PM
View larger image Senator Jesse Helms has done this nation a favor by kicking the bucket in the first place, and, in the second place, by having his funeral land precisely on July 8, thereby postponing the FISA vote...
Posted in Dakota on July 8, 2008 03:31 PM
View larger image There's a new term floating around out there, which we're sure you would never want applied to you-- It is: "the low information voter" In order to avoid becoming one, you had best read about the...
Posted in Dakota on July 1, 2008 06:43 PM
View larger image Nancy Pelosi's ongoing, vehement resistance to presidential impeachment seems to have issued every criminal in this administration a challenge to see just how far he or she can go without getting his or her testicles tied...
Posted in Dakota on June 17, 2008 06:03 PM
View larger image Ready for yet another state funeral? Will we have a coffin pulled by horses, another corpse at the Rotunda. or simply in the lobby of the NBC News Building? All of us here at Dakota feel...
Posted in Dakota on June 15, 2008 10:18 PM
View larger image So..... what happened about "What Happened", former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new Bushbuster confirming everything all of us here at Dakota have known for years? What's really interesting is the flap it's caused, and...
Posted in Dakota on May 29, 2008 08:34 PM
You may have heard the term counterinsurgency doctrine tossed around , partly because General Petraeus is such a big fan. To elucidate : "The counterinsurgency doctrine emphasizes the use of minimal force, with the intent of winning the hearts...
Posted in Dakota on May 6, 2008 07:21 AM
View larger image All of us here at Dakota simply cannot understand why Mark Penn was asked to resign from the Clinton Campaign just because his firm lobbied for a free trade agreement with Columbia, even though that conflicts...
Posted in Dakota on April 8, 2008 06:44 AM
View image For those of you who have overdosed on Kristin Ashley Alexandra Dupre's cleavage, musical gifts and childhood home photos, we would like to offer something more substantive. Forensic economist, Greg Palast, uncovers the more elusive story behind...
Posted in Dakota on March 21, 2008 06:51 AM
View larger image up close Okay folks - maybe you just stopped by to see how the big baby with the green hair is feeling. Update: she now thinks her hair is too red. Let us just say you...
Posted in Dakota on March 18, 2008 06:12 PM
View larger image up close All of us here at Dakota have decided to give Red Wing at The Seminal the last word about the Spitzer scandal that will ever appear on this blog. What in god's name was...
Posted in Dakota on March 12, 2008 03:15 PM
View larger image All of us here at Dakota were dismayed to learn that the US Terrorist Watch List now exceeds 900,000 names. Scroll down to see who made the No-Fly List, and then send your membership dues to...
Posted in Dakota on March 9, 2008 06:49 PM
View larger image Since we seem to have elected two Presidents with undiagnosed neurological conditions (both Republican, you will note). -- the sainted Reagan (Alzheimer's) and that little devil George W. Bush (Korsakoff's)--- it would seem judicious to ask...
Posted in Dakota on March 7, 2008 06:38 PM
View larger image Just in case you missed George McGovern's piece Sunday in the Washington Post, we have, a the risk of copyright violation, duplicated it here in its entirety. McGovern is now 85 years old and has a...
Posted in Dakota on January 6, 2008 10:24 PM
View larger image It was quite a press conference yesterday. Pretty Perky Pompous Presumptuous Pernicious Dana Perino, was displaced at the podium by the President himself. He had a big news doody to drop, which he usually does of...
Posted in Dakota on December 5, 2007 06:29 AM
View larger image Even though it took us eight years to awaken, the media tactics of the right are becoming clear to all of us here at Dakota, so we thought we'd pass them along, since this week's news...
Posted in Dakota on December 1, 2007 08:15 AM
View larger image I think it is evident to most of us that George W. Bush is a liar. Our esteemed President has told whoppers about issues great and small throughout his tenure, but this lie unearthed by Craig...
Posted in Dakota on November 18, 2007 07:59 AM
today the wise ones asked me how I used the blaze the fire the heat of rage I have at the sight of all of what is happening and what has happened and what is going to happen and...
Posted in Dakota on November 8, 2007 06:36 PM
View larger image Some of us here at Dakota have taken an intense dislike to Pretty Perky Press Secretary Perino . Perhaps it's easier to tolerate a villain who looks like one. Dana Perino makes us want to shake...
Posted in Dakota on October 8, 2007 11:16 PM
View image Senator Robert Byrd had a few pointed words to say to his colleagues about their shocking support of the Kyl-Lieberman amendment on Iran: It is deeply troubling to see the U.S. Senate joining the chest-pounding and saber-rattling...
Posted in Dakota on October 5, 2007 04:55 PM
View image All the good citizens here at Dakota have been harping recently about the plastic waste problem and, if nothing else, resisting the guile of the corporatocracy by weaning ourselves from the water bottle . If you didn't...
Posted in Dakota on September 24, 2007 03:40 PM
View larger image Just in case you're not quite up to speed, our stalwart President has nominated retired conservative federal judge, Michael B.Mukasey, to replace the lying Alberto Gonzales. He is a conservative who evidently feels that it's his...
Posted in Dakota on September 17, 2007 10:05 AM
View larger image Just before I left on vacation, I snagged this video clip of Dennis Kucinich nailing the slippery Donald Rumsfeld during testomony before the House Armed Services Committee. Impressive. According to an ABC poll, Kucinich actually came...
Posted in Dakota on August 28, 2007 06:53 PM
View larger image Did you hear about the newest fascistic fact emanating from the White House? Keep your yap shut if you don't want your assets frozen. From Walter Pincus at the Washington Post: President Bush issued an executive...
Posted in Dakota on July 23, 2007 12:52 PM
View larger image Here's a little something worth noting, a piece of info that will knock your socks off --- 84% of sunscreen products are harmful to your health. "Skin Deep" the Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic Safety Database has...
Posted in Dakota on July 19, 2007 07:55 PM
View larger image In the interest of building better citizens all of us here at Dakota have to insist that you watch Bill Moyers excellent (and balanced) video (in two parts) on the issue of impeachment. As John Nichols...
Posted in Dakota on July 16, 2007 12:32 PM
View larger image Harriet didn't show up for her appearance before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday which lead to an edifying discussion between those who did. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo thinks Harriet committed a felony, but, as...
Posted in Dakota on July 12, 2007 09:01 PM
View larger image The editors at The Washington Post, god bless their fickle little hearts, have finally sanctioned some excellent investigative reporting in a four part series exposing Dick Cheney and his evil, lawless transgressions as vice president. Here...
Posted in Dakota on June 25, 2007 09:15 PM
View larger image The gliders sailed the salt marsh this weekend providing a perfect shot for Memorial Day and the American flag collection as well as a metaphorophoto overarching the bridge almost in alignment whatever that means View larger...
Posted in Dakota on May 28, 2007 07:37 AM
View larger image for everyone who has difficulty reading technical material the statistics laid bare Photo note: Strategic placement of the sticker on the flaccid arrow of the no left turn sign makes for worthy metaphorophotography...
Posted in Dakota on May 21, 2007 07:58 PM
View larger image see the frog Okay guys, I know this will be a challenge because it's Sunday morning and you have Frank Rich and the entire wedding section to read too, but you probably won't stumble upon this...
Posted in Dakota on May 20, 2007 06:56 AM
View image Gee whiz, it seems that various long term malevolent plots are coming to light. Although most have been surreptitiously created, we are beginning to put the pieces together, so that we can see the outlines more clearly....
Posted in Dakota on April 23, 2007 09:30 PM
View image From a commenter on Firedoglake: Explaining his role in the botched firing of federal prosecutors, Gonzales uttered the phrase “I don’t recall” and its variants (”I have no recollection,” “I have no memory”) 64 times. Along the...
Posted in Dakota on April 20, 2007 10:38 AM
View larger image What kind of guy faced with 33 dead gives a rallying cry to the gun vote instead? Photo note: Empty containers against a brick wall about to tip over -- a hopeful metaphorophoto-- shot on location...
Posted in Dakota on April 17, 2007 06:25 AM
View larger image Joseph T. Wells, CPA, founder and chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, has a number of savvy techniques for identifying a liar, which he has published in an article entitled "A Fish Story --...
Posted in Dakota on April 14, 2007 04:55 PM
View larger image I'm sure Don Imus is shocked by the burgeoning response to what he would consider just a run-at-the-mouth remark. After all, talk shows like his abound, racist, sexist insults fly. and the vitriolic Ann Coulter (no...
Posted in Dakota on April 12, 2007 06:29 AM
View larger image As you can see, the subject is beauty disguised. The metaphorophoto above is a shot of one of the many Giordano billboards in Hong Kong celebrating the Year of the Pig. The pig noses on the...
Posted in Dakota on April 10, 2007 06:43 AM
View larger image Two movies and a bit of commentary to make certain that you are all up to speed on the latest travesties of our administration and the press coverage of same. Comic Bill Maher explaining something that's...
Posted in Dakota on March 25, 2007 09:38 AM
View larger image This is practically the only picture that I took in China that I like. The juxstaposition between old and new, the robotic tower with the ubiquitous blue and white advertisement that's painted on country walls and...
Posted in Dakota on March 22, 2007 08:15 AM
View image Wouldn't you know that just as I'm about to leave for a visit to matriarchal societies in Yunnan Province, the damn spammers have besieged me with offers of sex, drugs and ringtones - 84 of their disgusting...
Posted in Dakota on February 22, 2007 06:39 AM
View image I was given norovirus for Valentine's Day. Believe me, it took the romance out of everything. I figured a metaphorophoto was was good idea. The projectile vomiting pictures are best saved for an entry about George Bush....
Posted in Dakota on February 15, 2007 09:46 AM
View larger image I hope you haven't missed the story of Karl Szmolinsky, the East German who has taken up raising rabbits in his old age ---really really big rabbits. Their portraits are quite impressive. I have a hard...
Posted in Dakota on January 12, 2007 10:09 AM
View larger image Keith Olbermann did a lovely pre-speech summary last night. And then we listened to our President, standing up in the library, rather than sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, which was a bad sign...
Posted in Dakota on January 11, 2007 01:21 PM
View larger image Our smug President did have something up his sleeve --- here it comes, folks -- a distraction from the alleviation of human suffering worldwide, contamination of the earth, an unforgiveable act of aggression against another trumped-up...
Posted in Dakota on January 9, 2007 06:50 AM
View larger image Another internet story for those of you who hold a day job which prevents you from getting up to speed in the world of the world wide web. This is the story of the making of...
Posted in Dakota on January 5, 2007 05:12 PM
View larger image view the panorama For those of you who are not YouTube afficionados, but would like to partake of some of the activities, here's an example of a video romp. It all begins with Noah, who, poor...
Posted in Dakota on December 30, 2006 05:06 PM
View larger image Since I am pressed for time this morning, I am providing a couple of succulent essays about the state of sexuality today -- repression, limits, origins, overkill, objectification and ennui. Do begin with the delightful Merrill...
Posted in Dakota on December 14, 2006 08:04 PM
View image Jonathan Alter wrote in Newsweek: In government, the tone set at the top can be as powerful as the mightiest army. It reverberates through everything. The history of the American presidency is the story of the character...
Posted in Dakota on December 12, 2006 06:45 AM
View larger image Now that the leaked report has come full faucet, wiser persons than I had much to say about it , so I'll just pass you right along to them. Most relevant was Russ Feinglold speaking to...
Posted in Dakota on December 7, 2006 06:34 AM
View larger image focus in the field I was blessed with unstructured time this afternoon which allowed me to fiddle around in the cacophany of the world wide web. It was directed fiddling, which is often more productive than...
Posted in Dakota on December 5, 2006 02:53 PM
View larger image Since the car parked behind me today happened to belong to a PrAna person, and I haven't been in any condition to look for messages from the universe lately, I decided to take a shot. Prana...
Posted in Dakota on November 30, 2006 09:49 PM
in larger context When will the psychological concept of projection become as well understood as the Freudian slip? If that ever comes to pass, smart people will stop attributing their most shameful internal impulses to others, especially in public,...
Posted in Dakota on November 3, 2006 01:07 PM
View larger image This is a metaphorophoto. You can understand it as a picture of what I'd like to do with my head and neck in my afflicted state, or a product of listening to the radio much of...
Posted in Dakota on October 26, 2006 04:34 PM
View larger image view more aesthetic less prophetic image I know we're all quite sick of hearing about Mark Foley. Turns out that the poor guy was not just a victim of the Catholic patriarchy, but Karl Rove got...
Posted in Dakota on October 12, 2006 03:46 PM
View image To the uninitiated, it is often astonishing to discover that sexual predators as a group are not easily recognized by their goulishness. In fact, they are generally quite appealing -- especially the unfortunates who must look for...
Posted in Dakota on October 4, 2006 05:44 PM
View larger image I am sorry to report that NPR News this morning had NOTHING, not a peep, on our shocking Congressional Sex Scandal, or any revelations about Condi's disinterest in George Tenet's urgent, early warnings two months before...
Posted in Dakota on October 3, 2006 09:46 PM
View larger image View larger image If you're anything like me, you know that Hugo Chavez, in his speech to the United Nations the other day, called George W. Bush "the devil", and referred to the sulfurous gases he...
Posted in Dakota on September 28, 2006 08:16 PM
View larger image An interesting internet ethical dilemma has cropped up. You may have missed it if you don't hang around in certain circles. I question why it took an idea like this so long to surface on the...
Posted in Dakota on September 12, 2006 06:37 PM
View larger image Enough of natural beauty, and exotic sundae toppings that set the heart aflutter. A serious, nay, learned, discussion is in order on the subject of deceit and self deception. A most relevant topic, as ABC airs...
Posted in Dakota on September 6, 2006 06:55 PM
View larger image more intimate fish portrait I had best explain this photo. There are two fish bowls (actually three, but, if I had included the third, the angle would have been less artful). The aforementioned bowls rest on...
Posted in Dakota on August 16, 2006 01:40 PM
Throwing up a few entries before departure like the chickenhawk flag for the bird brained quite a sassy metaphorophoto Photo note: One more for the desecrated American flag collection Lots to click while I'm on vacation for a fortnight...
Posted in Dakota on July 28, 2006 07:19 PM
View larger image The Fourth of July provides a plethora of photo ops for the amateur, particularly one interested in metaphorophotographically documenting the distortion and/or bastardization of the symbol of democracy. Let's see, who has had his hand in...
Posted in Dakota on July 5, 2006 09:17 AM
View larger image Recently there was a fatal automobile accident in our town. It happened on quiet serpentine road that winds through the woods into the center from the highway -- a head on collision in which a Corolla...
Posted in Dakota on June 29, 2006 08:12 PM
View larger image Check this out. On 9/10/01 Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon couldn't find 2.3 trillion dollars. It cannot be accounted for. Factoid: Bad news out of the Bush Administration is ALWAYS delivered on Friday, where it...
Posted in Dakota on June 22, 2006 09:48 AM
View larger image Our esteemed leader is, once again, kowtowing to his discriminating (not in the tasteful sense) voter base -- the folks that think fascism is a family value. He's out there whipping up fear and loathing toward...
Posted in Dakota on June 5, 2006 10:37 PM
View larger image I awoke this morning to an interview with David Brion Davis, historian, Yale professor emeritus, and author of "Inhuman Bondage: the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World". His book credits much of the...
Posted in Dakota on June 3, 2006 06:40 AM
View larger image and friend Ah, a stone maiden -- Everytime I leave town on an expedition of any sort, I lose my impetus to write this blog. I freeze, stop thinking altogether, and go back to DoodooDedooLand. Then...
Posted in Dakota on May 31, 2006 06:21 AM
view larger image up close up close with voice and vision in orange Jean Rohe, the graduation speaker at the New School, (where John McCain campaigned all over their ceremony), was recruited by angels, probably born to and raised...
Posted in Dakota on May 21, 2006 06:27 AM
View image Yesterday I received a self addressed package in the mail. It was returned less than a week after I mailed it. My portfolio was rejected.--- summarily. The worst of it was that the gallery didn't even keep...
Posted in Dakota on May 19, 2006 06:17 AM
View image I guess this is old news, but worth repeating for those of you who had to write a big check to the IRS last week. Dick did not. It seems that our sterling vice president has profited...
Posted in Dakota on April 26, 2006 01:15 PM
View larger image Ah... Patriot's Day -- the third holiday in a row. Thank goodness, there's no need to cook or set the table for this one. In fact it's quite the opposite here in Massachusetts. This the holiday...
Posted in Dakota on April 17, 2006 08:49 AM
View larger image This winter I attended the opening of a wonderful photo exhibit at a downtown gallery for the wife of a friend, who is a professor of photography. I may have even written about it. One wall...
Posted in Dakota on April 14, 2006 10:33 AM
have a chair take a seat reflect on the road behind you and the patterns in the path before you set in concrete but oh so mutable with a small change in perspective a flick of the wrist a...
Posted in Dakota on April 9, 2006 08:40 AM
View image I have just spent the last fifteen minutes looking for the euphemism used for masturbation in the Catholic confessional. I think it is concubicity, but google tells me I'm wrong, by telling me nothing. Addendum : The...
Posted in Dakota on April 8, 2006 06:00 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day from all of the aspects of myself including the astral Photo note: Yet another metaphorophoto/metamorphophoto. The toy store had green cellophane glued over the window, thus the strange hue. This is the second time this...
Posted in Dakota on March 17, 2006 06:16 AM
View larger image Metaphorophotographically speaking, this shot speaks to the diminishing relevance of the newspaper these days. Not only is it overshadowed, it's all wrapped up in green plastic. Plastic for ecologically unsound, toxic-- green plastic for hypocrisy. Reality...
Posted in Dakota on March 5, 2006 06:35 AM
View larger image She started her part with, "I never expected to be here. If everything had gone as planned, my son would have been burying me--- many years from now. " Because he was, technically, a Jew, the...
Posted in Dakota on February 24, 2006 06:45 PM
View larger image Dan Froomkin over at washington post.com in his wonderful blog/column "White House Briefing" pointed out a National Catholic Reporter editorial, in which an outsider attended the Bush speech at Kansas State, listened to his words carefully,...
Posted in Dakota on February 10, 2006 08:18 PM
View larger image This morning, I was going to publish an entry I had prepared featuring a group that is currently out of favor, but, as I listened to discussion about renewal of the Patriot Act, I felt worried...
Posted in Dakota on February 10, 2006 05:52 AM
View larger image Last night, on my way to my Abraham-Hicks Discussion and Manifestation Group, I picked up my dear and close personal friend, only to find a full-sized ping pong table redecorating her living room -- and part...
Posted in Dakota on February 6, 2006 06:52 AM
View image. I don't have too many god pictures in my archives. I figure when I take one, I probably ought to publish it, because it may mean something. But then again, it may not. This one looks like...
Posted in Dakota on January 29, 2006 06:49 AM
View image As you can see, although I'm all dressed up, and almost over the plague, its residual effect has left me a bit hollow-eyed. I know I'm not over it, because I am still reading about what I...
Posted in Dakota on January 12, 2006 07:13 AM
View image Didn't I just vow to fork off in a more positive direction? Wouldn't you know that I would stumble upon this combo metaphorophoto-metamorphophoto, the moment I made the vow. I shot it this summer during my brief...
Posted in Dakota on January 6, 2006 07:00 PM
View larger image Here's Paul Krugman, whom you can no longer read on line at the New York Times, what a shame. I hope I don't get busted for publishing his column in its entirety, but it was such...
Posted in Dakota on December 30, 2005 04:01 PM
View larger image I awoke this morning from an apocalyptic dream to the harpist Debra Henson-Conant admitting that she thinks about the apocalypse alot, "I just can't help it!", telling stories and singing Christmas carols to the riffs of...
Posted in Dakota on December 24, 2005 06:43 AM
View image The same story was published by the York (PA) Daily Record and the New York Times (by the time you read this, you'll probably have to pay for it, so you'll just have to trust me) --...
Posted in Dakota on December 22, 2005 06:13 AM
View larger image Lets see, the fascist dictatorship has had an excellent week. Despite concerted efforts by John McCain, our preminent torture victim, the administration essentially won the right to torture, since anyone charged with torture now can be...
Posted in Dakota on December 17, 2005 07:49 AM
View image George W. Bush is finally telling the truth. Of course, he felt he could be himself in front of GOP leadership who had gathered in the Offal Office to discuss renewing The Patriot Act. Two notable quotes...
Posted in Dakota on December 11, 2005 07:21 AM
View larger image Just when we didn't need any more reasons to want to immigrate to Canada, Helen Branswell, flu reporter extraordinaire, writes about a new Canadian ethics report outlining the difficult decisions that will have to be considered...
Posted in Dakota on December 9, 2005 06:11 AM
View larger image I am sparing you my own, less than profound, musings this morning, because I so very much want everyone to read this clickie in its entirety. It happens to be long. It is always astonishing to...
Posted in Dakota on November 28, 2005 06:40 AM
View larger image Even though I haven't been beating you over the head with avian flu awareness facts for the past few days (though I have been known to brush lightly upon the subject ), I can no longer...
Posted in Dakota on November 22, 2005 07:29 PM
View image Everyone (except the rather large contingent who wish I would shut up about avian flu) will be excited to hear that The Commonwealth of Masachusetts Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan has arrived. This is ia welcome addition to...
Posted in Dakota on November 8, 2005 10:13 PM
View larger image A simple pre Halloween greeting to all of you! If we were so inspired, we could consider the shot from a metaphorophotographic viewpoint, as well. Three pumpkins sit prominently on a stand at the lowest level...
Posted in Dakota on October 29, 2005 06:39 AM
View larger image I found my Halloween costume in a shop window the other day -- trouble is, it's a little small. You cannot see the American flag sewn across its heart, since I opted instead, for metaphorophotographic reasons,...
Posted in Dakota on October 16, 2005 07:02 AM
j View image . Gilbert Cranberg, former editor of the Des Moines Register's opinion page, was interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR yesterday about the essay on journalistic ethics he wrote for the Columbia Journalism Review. I tried to transcribe...
Posted in Dakota on October 8, 2005 06:16 PM
View image Yesterday I went to visit a real life artist photographer. His studio is right around the corner from my office, and a mutual friend suggested I meet him. He has a printer the size of a harpsichord,...
Posted in Dakota on October 2, 2005 06:57 AM
someone we know not who left our precious patriotic symbol out in inclement weather and now just look what happened Photo note: Never one to pass up an opportunity, this was the best I could do under the circumstances...
Posted in Dakota on September 30, 2005 07:48 PM
Viewlarger image Early this summer I had the sniffles, and had to spend five hours in a car with a dear and close 92 year old, driving to a celebration. It was then, trying not to expose her to...
Posted in Dakota on September 17, 2005 07:25 AM
View larger image Okay folks, ready to play the metaphorophoto, metaphysiphoto (metafizzyphoto) game? Here's a shining example I took on Saturday, which is not as pretty as I would like it to be -- sometimes, that's how it is....
Posted in Dakota on September 13, 2005 08:41 PM
View image This morning, I heard a conservative interviewed on NPR, proudly say that John Roberts' views on affirmitive action are very clear, (with a smirk in his voice), they are just not in agreement with the liberal left....
Posted in Dakota on September 6, 2005 06:26 AM
View larger image It is a little known fact that THE most popular search term on this blog is the misspelling of chihuahua. That is, in spite of my unusually erudite subject selectiion, over 130 folks a day find...
Posted in Dakota on August 28, 2005 11:20 PM
View image Uh oh, it looks like Jane Roberts is not in favor of Roe v. Wade and we know how controlling those trial lawyer wives can be, just look at Hillary. Jane is very active in an organization...
Posted in Dakota on July 26, 2005 06:24 AM
View larger image Before and after metaphorophotos to illustrate my progress in the foot department. Please do not misconstrue this as complaining; think of it as a Chi Flow Progress Report. I have come to believe that the seizure...
Posted in Dakota on July 22, 2005 06:56 PM
View larger image This is a body/spirit(s) shot. Whether the spirits are coming or going isn't clear, but, since I took the picture, I am going to assume that it is about my wish to embody my whole self,...
Posted in Dakota on July 13, 2005 06:26 AM
to blame for Plame Rove wove spin to win high treason no reason bad crime this time make it stick to the prick mastermind behind so much evil upheaval Treasongate Photo note: A metaphorophoto, with little yellow flowers softening...
Posted in Dakota on July 11, 2005 09:01 PM
View larger image Short Review of "Bewitched" Nicole's Nose is Nice Photo note: Taken with a flash while exiting the movie. A metaphorophoto and a fine addition to the garbage series....
Posted in Dakota on July 10, 2005 10:05 PM
View larger image On the third of July I spent ten minutes circling a puddle near the sewer camera in hand in order to capture just the right reflection of clapboard Two days later I realized that I captured...
Posted in Dakota on July 6, 2005 07:39 PM
Ah...h..hh the patriots were out in full force this week. We begin this photo essay with a flag in double triangle, surrounded by many triangles, for those of us who are into symbolism even though we were not able...
Posted in Dakota on July 5, 2005 06:00 PM
View larger image I hear we have a new pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger aka "God's Rottweiler" aka Benedict XIV, has been duly selected. We have needed a new pope for quite some time, since the issues confronting the institution...
Posted in Dakota on April 20, 2005 09:30 AM
View larger image final foto of the foot festival featuring fanciful front door foreshadowing future forsythia Photo note: A metaphorophoto - looking past the clawed feet, into the reflected unknown, with the anticipation of blooming....
Posted in Dakota on April 14, 2005 07:36 PM
View larger image Ah, quite a day in the life the emerging spirit. It began with my ladies' group. I reported the successful, however anguished, claiming of my inheritance for purposes of selfish indulgence , which was heralded with...
Posted in Dakota on March 28, 2005 10:15 PM
Do not mistake the metaphorophoto for commentary on property seen rather assume my mood is not a peeling Photo note: Yummy color View larger image...
Posted in Dakota on March 24, 2005 12:51 PM
Closed for the evening a colorful interlude eye sorbet before snow blankets my world again ten inches expected Snowscapes metaphorophotos for my mother's death and what is still muffled cold and white within me This wasn't really about a...
Posted in Dakota on February 25, 2005 05:54 AM
View larger image Ah, the same damn subject - hope you aren't getting tired of this. Here we see an excellent example of the newly identified category, metamorphophoto, in which the thangka or Buddha with snake/ wisdom overlays a...
Posted in Dakota on February 21, 2005 10:22 PM
View larger image While attending to a radiator, look what I missed, or rather, look what 's out there that I simply wasn't seeing. This is both a metaphorophoto, and a metamorphophoto, particular categories in photosymbolism (that I just...
Posted in Dakota on February 20, 2005 09:37 AM