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beach work. a favorite saying is work smarter not harder. the plan, should circumstances and time permit is to buy the beach cottage. get up, put the clothes in the wash. have a little breakfast. then with ample supplies and wet, but clean clothes head out to the waiting chairs. a brief stop at the clothes line to hang the laundry then enjoy the surf while the clothes dry. that’s working smart. might even work in a blog post at lunch.

This according to both TV and the net is the biggest story of the day, Revealing Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise

Beth Kseniak, a spokeswoman for both Vanity Fair magazine and Ms. Leibovitz said, “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”

Whatever. It seems Ms. Cyrus feeling the wrath of the Puritan Squad is back tracking and apologizing. I sincerely wish her luck with much ado about not much. I hate having my photo taken, but if Annie Leibovitz was the photographer I’d make an exception. This story on the other hand is getting no coverage on the morning news, Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World

“Food is traveling because transport has become so cheap in a world of globalization,” said Frederic Hague, head of Norway’s environmental group Bellona. “If it was just a matter of processing fish cheaper in China, I’d be happy with it traveling there. The problem is pollution.”

Complicated issue with no pictures of cute young actresses so just skip it. Maybe this John McCain’s Serious Foreign Policy ?

Is there anyone outside of Lieberman and John Bolton who thinks that what we need are more cartoon-like imperial threats to the world about how we’re going to pummel and smash everyone if they don’t step into line? Is that mentality going to reduce complex religious and geostrategic threats or severely worsen them? McCain’s foreign policy approach actually seems to be a less restrained and less complex rendition of Bush’s “Bring-em-on” swagger that has really worked miracles in Iraq. Whatever adjectives might describe McCain’s barren, cliched tough guy decrees, Serious — or “moderate” — isn’t it.

We can’t have CBS, ABC or whoever take a long hard look at the wacky ramblings of some guy that could be the nest president; that wouldn’t attract the stiff necked finger swagging hypocrites that actually watch the commercials and go out and buy a piece of crap Chevy Suburban to adhere their bumper stickers proclaiming how righteous they are. I’m not a pacifist. There are situations that require taking names and kicking ass. Though I have what has become an outmoded idea that when you’re out gunning for the bad guys you don’t kill a lot of innocent people in the process,

Man gets shot that’s got a gun, there’s room for reasonable doubt. Man gets shot that hasn’t got a gun, what would you call it? But, you knew that already otherwise you wouldn’t have set things up the way you did. - Rio Bravo (1959)

The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)