photo: pier and bicycle, the bikini is sixty, reefs may disappear by 2045
July 4, 2007 at 8:05 am | In culture, environmental, history, news, photography | No Comments
pier and bicycle. or the perfect parking spot. this photo says a lot about how i spent summers when i was in my teens. just imagine some swim fins and a snorkel attached. at one point i think i was growing gills. maybe when i retire i’ll get another chance to try.
The Right To Bare Tummies A brief history of the bikini
Independence Day is a time to celebrate the freedoms Americans hold dear, including, of course, the right to expose large amounts of flesh from sea to shining sea. With that in mind, we offer up a two-piece celebration of the two-piece..
Purely in the interest of being up on history I had to read that story. I wish I could say that I was an expert, but I was inexplicably caught up by the social taboo against staring. Like most of my friends I became an expert at the quick polite look in between watching the waves and seagulls. Face to face conversations with someone in a bikini involved a lot of eye to eye and eye to forehead contact. Difficult to comprehend in the days of the thong bikini the culture shock of the original bikini 60 years ago.
Pollution, Ships Harm Fla. Coral Reefs
Coral reefs around the world are being destroyed by commercial fishing, development, pollution and warming waters, prompting some scientists to warn that up to half of these marine ecosystems could disappear by 2045.
gathering storm, another chapter in the conservative culture of crime
July 4, 2007 at 7:34 am | In culture, legal, news, photography, politics, progressive | No Comments
Just another obstruction of justice
Yesterday, George Bush attempted to prevent that chain of events from continuing any further. He commuted Scooter Libby’s 30-month sentence. Rather than serving time in jail, Libby will remain free, with a fine and probation as the only remaining punishments for lying and obstructing a criminal investigation. But the real effect of Bush’s actions is to prevent Libby from revealing the truth about Bush’s - and vice president Cheney’s - own actions in the leak. By commuting Libby’s sentence, Bush protected himself and his vice president from potential criminal exposure for their actions in the CIA Leak. As such, Libby’s commutation is nothing short of another obstruction of justice.
To put Libby’s treachery and Bush’s commuting of his sentence in perspective Cato took at look at some sentencing for far less serious crimes, Commute These Sentences, Mr. President
Mandy Martinson — 15 years for helping her boyfriend count his drug-dealing money.
Weldon Angelos — 55 years for minor marijuana and gun charges, causing the George W. Bush-appointed judge Paul Cassell, previously best known for pressing the courts to overturn the Miranda decision, to call the mandatory sentence in this case “unjust, cruel, and even irrational.”
Anthea Harris — 15 years when members of her husband’s drug ring received sentence reductions to testify against her, although she had not been directly involved in the business.
It is my understanding that Libby’s misguided supporters have raised over $5 million dollars for his defense so that little $250,000 fine means nothing. There are two Americas, the special one where Libby is a member in good standing of the Conservative Culture of Crime with friends in high places. Then there is the other America where the rest of us live and if we lie to a grand jury and expose the classified identities of CIA agents we get an iron bars vacation.
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