Ddjango's Blog (23)

I want to see the evidence.



I am grown totally frustrated and impatient with the cult of Obama, with the cult of the President in all. Please don't speak to me of "it's only three months, give him time". The administration has had ample time to show their course and it is clear that the course has not changed from the velocity by which we have proceeded for fifty years or more: a course of attempted conquest, imperialism, genocide, destructive… Continue

There is probably no more influential icon/meme of how Americans - and millions of people around the world - viewed this country in the twentieth century than that created by Walt Disney.



Disneyland popped up near Anaheim in the 1950s. A stylized Main Street of shops and attractions vaguely resembling the early 1900s. The Magic Kingdom: Cinderella, Snow White and her cute dwarfs, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and the rest. Frontierland, celebrating the growth of the country without… Continue

If you're lookin' to get silly

You better go back to from where you came

Because the cops don't need you

And man they expect the same

~ "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", Bob Dylan



Ah, yes - Spring! A time to finally be outdoors without six layers of itchy protection. Trees budding. Blackened snow almost gone from city streets. Gas mileage improving by turning down/off the car heater. A daffy or three peeking through the mulch. Hormones… Continue