August 29, 2008

A blind painter?

Filed under: Art — HDW @ 2:45 pm

This makes me want to quit painting. Not really, but Esref Armagan really makes you think, doesn’t he? I’m fascinated by how he can keep track of what he’s done.

In case the embedded video isn’t working here, go check out The Artist with no Eyes.

August 11, 2008

My current view on politics

Filed under: Politics — HDW @ 12:48 pm

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

August 7, 2008

Thoughts from across the pond

Filed under: Humor, Politics — HDW @ 2:23 pm

Sent to me via e-mail, source unknown.

An email from Ireland to the brethren in the States… a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:

We, in Ireland, can’t figure out why people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States. On one side, you have a pants wearing lawyer, married to a lawyer who can’t keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer who goes to the wrong church who is married to yet another lawyer who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run.

Now…On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate Mc terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship.

What in Lords name are ye lads thinking over there in the colonies?

Filed under both humor and politics… is that redundant?

August 6, 2008

Ezra Levant – Aquitted

Filed under: In other blogs..., In the News — HDW @ 9:06 pm

Punished first, acquitted later – Ezra Levant

But I’ve read the dismissal letter three times now, and each time it makes me more angry. Because I haven’t been given my freedom of the press. I’ve simply had the government censor approve what I said. That’s a completely different thing.

Follow the Money

Filed under: In the News — HDW @ 2:24 pm

This would be most of my problem with the Al Gore and his position on global warming.

Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat

I’m all for decreasing our need for oil (foreign or otherwise), and most anything else that would improve our environment. I’m a big fan of the great outdoors, and I want my children to see the same beautiful scenery I’ve seen. My problem with the global warming crowd is that most of the big names you associate with the political side of the movement are getting rich off of it. And they’re spending this money on things like a “new 100-foot houseboat that docks at the Hurricane Marina”. Grand total, probably somewhere between $500,000 to 1,000,000. If the most important thing we can do is to support Al Gore’s environmental causes, then why is his money going to something like this?

h/t Instapundit.com