INDEPENDENCE

"We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

WETLANDS AND WET FEET

Pescadero and the Pacific Ocean.

THE LIZARD OF OZ

I have a feeling that lizard has done this before.

It popped out of a hole and held this pose long enough for me to stop, fish the BlackBerry out of my backpack, take a picture, and then take another one up close (the one you see above).

HOOKED ON PHONICS WORKED FOR ME

"The Shield, a superhero dressed in red, white and blue made his debut in 1940. He was an FBI agent, whose secret identity was known only to J. Edgar Hoover, himself no stranger to dressing up in outlandish outfits."

-- The Supergirls: Fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of the comic book heroines, by Mike Madrid.

STUPID STUFF STUPID WHITE PEOPLE LIKE

GPS

The idiot driving the car in front of me today was going WAY TOO slow and when I able to finally pass him, I saw that he was watching one of those stupid GPS navigators attached to his windshield.

sigh

Why do people feel they need to put these in their cars? Do they not know how to read a map? I wonder what did they do before GPS came along?

I suppose they just kept driving until they hit somebody's pig.

Losers.

SAY WHAT?

Chairman of the Republican Party Michael Steele today referred to the 9-year war in Afghanistan as a mistake and as a "war of Obama's choosing."

WTF?

In case Mr. Steele has forgotten, let me remind him that the original objective of the war in Afghanistan was to capture Osama Bin Laden, the man behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City and Washington D.C.

I would like to also remind Mr. Steele that this so-called "war of Obama's choosing" was launched by George W. Bush, our previous President AND member of the political party you chair.

You, Mr. Steele, are an asshole.

SIMPLE ARITHMETIC

Richard Avedon + Twiggy = photographic brilliance

"SAVE THE SPEECHES FOR MALCOM X - I JUST WANNA GET LAID"

Heathers is the BEST high school movie EVER!

AND THE CURSE CONTINUES

For those interested, (CR)Apple has a job posting on their website for "Antenna Engineers."

The company has been unable to correct an issue where reception is lost when the phone is held in certain positions. That's funny, they're not able to fix this with their in-house staff?

Anyway, it's a problem they originally tried to blame on users by claiming they were holding the phone incorrectly.

HOLDING THE PHONE INCORRECTLY?

How do you hold a phone incorrectly? Would that be while chewing on a piece of foil and doing a handstand under an oak tree during an electrical storm? Also, two Class-Action suits have been filed, claiming that (CR)Apple knew about the antenna issue yet hid that problem from consumers.

(rubbing hands) MMMWWWWAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA

GALELLA'S MONA LISA

It's what celebrity photographer Ron Galella's calls this shot he took of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from the back of a cab along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

I have to agree, it's an iconic shot.