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Frequently Beastly Drunk

June 9, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Well, I’ll be dimmed, who’d have thought that things like this would be happening on the open sea? In my brief 5 years on the main, I swear things like this never happened! SONOMA DEMOCRAT 19 November 1857 The P.M.S.S. Company. Give it to ’em.— The following from the Morning Call, gives a rather deplorable … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: abusive, beastly drunk, California, courtezans, deplorable morals, pregnant with profligacy, revolting indecencies, Steamer John L Stephens

Climate Denier’s Materials Package

June 8, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In a heartbreaking article in the Washington Post about Secretary DeVos’ stand on climate change, the author, Valerie Strauss, adds a letter written by Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democratic Senator where the Senator writes of the efforts of the Heartland Institute, a climate denial “think tank” to promote a climate denial information packet sent to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: climate change, Department of Education, Education, Heartland Institute, Paris climate agreement

Us and Them

June 7, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The history and basis for discrimination is highlighted in a Science News article about a new exhibit at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.

Posted in: Science, Thinking about Tagged: essentialism, Immigration, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, prejudice, racism, science, UNESCO

Infrastructure under Trump?

June 7, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In this NYT article about the risks of public and private infrastructure projects, this quote about Blackstone, which announced a $40 billion dollar infrastructure fund: Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone’s chairman and chief executive, is leading a White House business advisory group, which lists infrastructure work as one of its topics for discussion. Conflict of interest … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Trump Tagged: Blackstone Group, debt, Public-private partnerships, toll roads

The World That Trump and Ailes Built

June 6, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Jill Lapore hits the nail on the head in her comment in the June 5, 2017 New Yorker “The Strategy of Truth.” Trump and Ailes

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Archibald MacLeish, Briton Hadden, Edmond Taylor, Fact Checking, Fox News, Henry Luce, Mein Kampf, Office of War Information, Propaganda, Roger Ailes, Trump

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture

June 6, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I revere the written word, but I’m bookmarking the audio of Dylan’s Nobel lecture because hearing it adds so much more than reading it ever would due to his incredible voice, the inflections and the music. The print version of the lecture is found here.

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize

FTC Archives Rules of the Road

June 2, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

At THIS web page, our government has kept a “Rules of the Road” for advertisers online since December 2000. This is well aged advice, and seems to have stood the test of time, or has it?

Posted in: Thinking about Tagged: Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Y2K

White Orchids

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Content, Thinking about Tagged: Photography

Small Faces

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A few “heads” I made between 2004 and 2009:

Posted in: Content, Faits Divers Tagged: Connie, DDS, Paint, Plaster, Self-Portrait, Small Faces, Smiley G., Varnish, Weather Man Blue, Weather Man Red

Farmer Cemetery

May 25, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Content, Faits Divers, Thinking about Tagged: Douglas County, Farmer Cemetery, Washington State
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