28 September 2011

destroying america

i really can't understand this talk of killing off the post office --- change it, yes, but eliminate it entirely? cheap and generally reliable, but now a crisis has been manufactured by congress --- just like the state has done with MARTA in restricting how it uses half of its income, a different "they" has done even worse with the USPS and is now closing in for the kill. In both cases, "fiscal responsibility" and all are the purported reasons --- bullshit ---

Union leaders and consumer advocates . . . insist this is all a "manufactured crisis" to drive down wages and break the unions.... Both audits suggest the government has been using post office revenues as a federal pension piggy bank for decades. Were it not for all that lost money, the agency would be in the black.

26 September 2011

mammon

what an asshole --- completely and utterly amoral --- "governments do not rule the world -- goldman sachs rules the world" ---

24 September 2011

saturday night

the sound of music midtown in the distance and a whole lot going on up and down p'tree --- and absolutely perfect weather


23 September 2011

fall!!!



legal murder

many of us are not proud of what the state did last night ---

22 September 2011

ma

she turned 90 today and we gave her a little birthday party --- a bunch of her old friends showed, her sister, some nieces, and great grandbabies, the latter of which were totally out of control --- 





20 September 2011

19 September 2011

another bastion falls


happy hour


lost another one

the old post oak on the east side of p'tree between fifth and sixth is gone --- it was fairly gnarly, but it had been there for a hundred years

17 September 2011

14 September 2011

the charleston lighthouse

built in 1962, the charleston lighthouse on sullivan's island was the coast guard's last lighthouse --- since it was built as an automated light, access was not as easy as the older brick or iron towers that had to be climbed every day ---- the elevator isn't working and even if it were the last 30 feet or so is by ladders --- so i didn't see the top

13 September 2011

11 September 2011

09 September 2011

fall's coming

blue sky came back yesterday evening and today has been perfect --- temperatures in the 70s, low humidity--- the best

a vortex of ignorance

A real concern I have, and I think many, many people in Cobb County have with this whole idea of light rail coming in here is this backdoor way of trying to get MARTA into Cobb and then bringing all the crime that currently lives in Fulton.

hear, hear

this was the best line from the president last night:

In fact, this larger notion that the only thing we can do to restore prosperity is just dismantle government, refund everybody’s money, and let everyone write their own rules, and tell everyone they’re on their own -- that’s not who we are. That’s not the story of America.

05 September 2011

lee!


didn't get the amount of rain they predicted, but any rain is good

finished mann's 1493: uncovering the new world columbus created, which puts the whole globalization thing in a new light --- it was easily as good as his 1491: new revelations of the americas before columbus ---- also read bartolomé de las casas' thoroughly depressing a brief account of the destruction of the indies or, a faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled mMassacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, at the time of its first discovery by them, published in 1552 --- we need to rethink columbus day

04 September 2011

dragon*con

 what a mess! from the old spice guy to i don't know what all --- more images here ---







02 September 2011

serenbe

 excellent food and all



01 September 2011

plants and frogs

gotta love the botanical garden at night --- the chorus of frogs in the conservatory rocks