Upon Taking the Photographs Out of the Envelope and Looking Again

Twenty years later

That blue sky

Twenty years

That blue

Sky

Still

So

Terribly

Blue

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Nurturing the Love of Wilderness

There is nothing quite so sublime as your first fresh kill. You look down at the lifeless beast and chills of exaltation course through your body.

Oh to be an innocent little girl again, frolicking among nature’s bounty!
Regarding the Inhumane

“The notion that acts of cruelty are inhumane is absurd and has no scientific basis. Indeed, the disposition to inflict suffering may be one of the more defining characteristics of human kind.”

(Animal Behaviorist D.B. Lattimore from her essay, "Primate Behavior and Self-Deception")
Our Terrible Hardships

A visitor to planet earth might need but a glimpse of our values and priorities before determining that we are criminally insane. Consider this brilliant video short which offers an arch and moving revelation of our broken consciousness.
It’s a Big Club
– and You Ain’t in It

After 71 years in this place, social critic and chronicler George Carlin has moved on to the next thing. One small example of his fury and vision can be seen is his take on American education and opportunity in this excerpt from his Who Really Controls America.
Eat and Grow Strong

We May Be Needing You Later.
Inside the Shoebox

Haunting animation of one soldier’s story.

Colby Buzzell is the soldier. The story is from his book My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Artwork by Christopher Koelle.
Print the Legend

“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

(Maxwell Scott, newspaperman, from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence)
Our Artists

Oh So Happy

Remember! You Too Can Be Happy!
Gay Boy

Let’s conduct an experiment. You and a million other young men are playing Halo 3, a popular first-person shooter video game. Only you have chosen to use “xxxGayBoyxxx” as your gamer tag. What could possibly be the response?

Another admirable investigation into primate behavior in America.
Fantastic News!

Sure, terrible things go on in this world, but look at the bright side — 3.5 billion people live in poverty! Capitalist and all around idiot Kevin O’Leary leads the cheers.
This Island Fantasy

“A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal passages, cremate the millions.”

(E.B. White, 1948, This is New York)
Some of the Nonsense
was Evil

Kurt Vonnegut on Sea Pirates and the brave history of America from his Breakfast of Champions.
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