I do not breathe your politics

"Comment is free but facts are sacred." (C.P. Scott)
Friday, March 31, 2006

Yeah. What she said.

From Flickr's homepage earlier: Flower closeups are just like portraits; the process involves the same challenges with a smaller scale. As you can probably guess, I particularly like photographing flowers. It tickles me that someone like O'Keefe would say this though.

posted by Michael at 3/31/2006 03:05:00 AM 1 comments  

Friday, March 10, 2006

First Flickr photos

I've really wanted to put together my own gallery for ages - I have the basic design done, I seem to have essentially written the software, but I lack the time to put it all together. In the meantime, I have finally caved in and put together a few photos on a Flickr gallery.

posted by Michael at 3/10/2006 03:23:00 AM 0 comments  

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Things related and not

If anything describes the magnitude of the hellhole we (the USA and Britain) have dropped the middle east into, this phrase is it:
"Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
If you followed the build-up of war as keenly and angrily as I did, you may remember this phrase cropping up in a few of the more critical analyses of the US march into war. It was allegedly from notes by Secretary of Defence (and potential psychopath) Donald "I stand for eight hours a day" Rumsfeld, on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, urging his staff to find reasons to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time. This, along with another quote concerning Saddam Hussein,
"Hard to get a good case"
was omitted from the coverage of many less brave news outlets, and by the 9/11 Commission. However, a blogger submitted a freedom of information request for a staffer's notes, and got them. So now even right wingers like Andrew Sullivan know that on the afternoon of that day, the Rumsfeld/Cheney/Wolfowitz cabal was already trying to pull unrelated elements into their response to the attack, to go after Iraq. We can all agree, it's not just a hellhole, it's an unjustified hellhole. Progress of a sort, I guess.

posted by Michael at 3/02/2006 03:16:00 AM 0 comments