BurningbirdI am not a Walker Evans expert, but from my recent readings about him, I sensed there were three significant events in his life that shaped the man, and subsequently, the photographs we’ve come to cherish. One of the events I briefly mentioned in the last Walker Evans writing, and that was his search for […]
2023 update: In 2023, I find I disagree with this, completely. I do think that corporations hiring known bigots reflects poorly on the corporation. Earlier Second Update Andrew Sullivan in The Hounding of a Heretic: Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts […]
How can you tell if armor is any good? You field test it. You shoot stuff at it. You shoot a lot of stuff at it. Think Progress created a one-page timeline of GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act. After looking at the extraordinary degree the GOP went to undermine and/or kill the ACA, I came […]
I have spent considerable time building a list of negative incidents associated with circus elephants in the United States since 1800. Thanks to Google’s newspaper archive, I’m discovering several more to add to what is already a large list. Of course, sometimes the incidents happen in real time. Three circus elephants got loose and damaged two […]
In comments to a story at Food Safety News, (Report: ‘Bycatch’ Blamed for Nine Dirty Ocean Fisheries Off U.S. Shores), about the distressing amount of bycatch associated with several fisheries, a commenter to the story wrote: Even if bycatch could be ended, which it won’t be, fishing would still remain a horrific agony for the […]