Displaying 61 To 90 Of 1,116 Comments Here ya go: » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 20, 2011 @ 5:14 am I guess anything is a little nicer if you say it with a smile. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 17, 2011 @ 12:56 pm Perfect! » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 17, 2011 @ 12:53 pm bito – Coincidentally, I just read a piece about them this morning, on a blog called “Badger Democracy:” Sounds fishy alright. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 17, 2011 @ 12:51 pm That’s a good quote, from whomever said it. Ignorance IS the most abundant fuel. I’ve heard it expressed this way: The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits. Speaking of ignorance, isn’t this the funniest poster for a failed politician? » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 17, 2011 @ 6:12 am I listen to a lot of podcasts. It’s a good replacement for television, because I can hear news and information and such on my iPod during my working day. TV wastes one’s time, but podcasts allow me to keep my hands busy, doing work and making art while keeping up with current events. One of the podcasts I like to listen to is called “Wake Up AMerica.” It’s these three middle-aged women who get together to talk politics and stuff. It’s very informal and personable-sounding. When I listen to it, it feels like I’m sitting at a breakfast table having coffee with liberal friends and having a friendly chat. Anyway, they remarked on their latest podcast that they needed a new logo, and so I cobbled together one for them. They said that they didn’t want to get into a copyright issue because of the South Park art that they used. You can see that here: I posted a message on their blog about it, and I hope they get back to me. Here is what I came up with: » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 13, 2011 @ 1:12 pm Feh. The picture didn’t appear (my fault.) Here it is:[img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5926494224_7717510b7f_b.jpg[/img] » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 13, 2011 @ 12:57 pm Off topic…. Ancient visitors. http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5926494224_7717510b7f_b.jpg Now don’t get me wrong; I don’t actually believe in this sort of thing. I just painted this as a bit of fun. Also as an excuse to use up my purple and orange paints, which I usually don’t have much use for. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 13, 2011 @ 12:56 pm whatsthatsound – What a great picture. You captured a good expression… I like it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 13, 2011 @ 12:54 pm I see! Drambuie IS good. I only drink it once a year. Every New Year’s Eve, I buy some good Scotch and some Drambuie and make Rusty Nails. That’s my own special treat. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 12, 2011 @ 4:31 pm Yeah. But now that I think about it, “Pretty Death Accessory” would be a good name for a band… Like a Goth-Metal sort of outfit. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 12, 2011 @ 12:19 pm WTS – The only time I’ve tried sake was when a friend of mine showed up at a party with a bottle tucked away in his armpit. He explained that sake was supposed to be served warm. Nobody at that party wanted any of it after that explanation (and the fact that he pulled the bottle out of his armpit,) so my friend drank it all himself. That was many years ago. Since then, I’ve watched lots of samurai movies, and that has renewed my interest in saki. I may try it sometime. I may try your own special cocktail as well, Mr. WTS. Benedictine Liqueur is mostly brandy, isn’t it? » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 12, 2011 @ 12:15 pm I didn’t even know handguns came in raspberry-pink. No less dangerous though. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 12, 2011 @ 4:43 am I can see that. Rippling water and rippling glass… you know, I read somewhere that glass is actually a liquid. It just has a high melting point. You can find old houses that have been standing for a hundred years or so, and if they still have glass in the windows, a measurement with calipers shows that the glass near the bottom of the windows is noticeably thicker than at the top. It’s a melting liquid, but it’s melting very very slowly. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 11, 2011 @ 5:12 pm You must be right about the weight. That never occurred to me; his work LOOKS so light and full of air and all… My wife was particularly interested to see his work because like you, she does some glass work herself. She likes to make her own glass beads, starting with different glass rods and melting them with a blowtorch to produce all kinds of neat mixed glass effects. It’s cool-looking stuff. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 11, 2011 @ 5:08 pm Completely off-topic… I sketched my cat Howard watching the birds outside. We have a different birdfeeder now, one that has smaller perches so that the squirrels can’t snarf up all the food for themselves. The downside is that only the smaller birds can feed from it, so we’ve attracted lots of finches, chickadees and titmouses (or is it “titmice?”) Howard the cat doesn’t mind the lack of variety. He likes to watch all birds. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 11, 2011 @ 5:01 pm KT- Chihuly had a show here in Atlanta at the Botanical Gardens a few years ago. My wife & I went to see that. His artwork really fit in nicely with the flower gardens and fountains and all. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 11, 2011 @ 4:52 pm Nope. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 7, 2011 @ 5:35 pm That’s true. When I feel cynical, I can’t help but wish that having a bumper-sticker mentality was a handicap instead of an advantage in our present political climate. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 7, 2011 @ 2:24 pm First of all, congratulations to Spain. They’re setting a good example. As for Bachmann, and all the other “drill here, drill now” advocates… It seems as though they believe that the energy companies are nationalized. Like the Bachmann speech you quoted says, “We have 25 poercent…,” “We have got more oil…,” “We’ve got it…” Just who is this “we” that she keeps talking about? “We,” the American people? No, that can’t be it, because the oil companies are private multinational companies who lease land from the U.S. so they can drill for oil to sell on the global market. So why does Bachmann refer to them as “we?” I think the Republicans who talk this way should be immediately challenged along these lines. Whenever Bachmann says “We’ve have got more oil,” she should be immediately asked, “So you favor nationalizing the oil companies, do you? That’s a VERY Leftist idea.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 7, 2011 @ 7:13 am Weekend Music Thread – American Independence Here’s an old Irish emigration song called “The Green Fields of America,” played by Chris Ricker on the cello: » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 4, 2011 @ 6:01 am This makes me smile. The music here is a real mix of things, just like the American people. You can even hear the Roy Orbison riff at about 2:00. Very optimistic video! » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 4, 2011 @ 5:50 am The Star Spangled Banner by Jimi Hendrix: » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 4, 2011 @ 5:33 am Leonard Cohen says that democracy is coming to the U.S.A….
» Posted By Buddy McCue On July 2, 2011 @ 7:08 am The Age Of Reason As An Argument To The Age Of Fear Khirad and KT – Also, there is my favorite book, Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions,” in which the character Kilgore Trout writes a story about a chimpanzee becoming the President of The United States: (Actually, I have to admit that I was reminded of this when George W. was in office…) » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 6, 2011 @ 4:29 pm KilgoreTrout – I would also like to see a renewed interest in these ideas. Unfortunately, the study material seems awfully dry and boring to the mainstream public. Reading about this stuff will remind many of being back in school, where the main lesson seemed to be this: Learning is No Fun. (sometimes extra reading was even given as punishment!) I wish the ideas of the Enlightenment could be popularized somehow, maybe in the form of cartoons or something. I thought Carl Sagan did a great job of popularizing science in his Cosmos series. Many of us still remember the old Schoolhouse Rock cartoons. Now that I think of it, it was the Schoolhouse Rock cartoon “No More Kings” that first got me started thinking about politics and U.S. History. It seems a little bit silly and simplistic now (not to mention insulting to the British,) but I think they were on the right track in producing this stuff. They made this material fun. Also, whenever I want to quote the Preamble to the Constitution, all I have to do is remember the song which I memorized as a child: » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 6, 2011 @ 6:18 am choicelady – Thank you for talking about the progressive faith community. Many conservatives can’t even imagine that there is such a thing. Sometimes on the Huffington Post, a conservative would express surprise whenever any progressive mentioned faith… sometimes it was feigned surprise, but often it seemed to be real. To many on the Right, we liberals are all a bunch of “Godless heathens.” Of course, that isn’t true. Most of the religious people around where I grew up were Baptists, which has a lot in common with Calvinism. One of the tenets of the Calvinist faith is that personal wealth is a sign of the blessing of God. THAT idea translates directly into modern conservative thought. If you see a person who is rich and successful, they must have been blessed. They “must have been living right,” as they say around here. Bottom line: they DESERVE it. The same is thought to be true of the poor. If they are suffering, then they must also deserve their fate. Everything is earned. Everyone gets what they deserve. I can see the comfort in such a belief. The opposite idea: that we live in a chaotic world, an unfair world where evil often flourishes and the good often die young… that’s a nightmarish world. That’s the worst thing anybody can think of. No WONDER so many people refuse to believe in that! Even people who are not religious, but instead consider themselves “spiritual,” will say “What goes around comes around,” or they will speak of karma. The way I see it, the world is a big and complicated place. Sometimes people get what they deserve, and sometimes they don’t. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. I forget who said that, but it rings true to me. » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 6, 2011 @ 6:04 am KT – I think that the conservatives on the Far Right disagree with Enlightenment ideals in a very fundamental way. I think that the better they were made to understand them, the more they would despise the concepts. I don’t claim to be any kind of scholar, but to me, the basic notion to take away was this: the real world is a thing that lies outside of ourselves, and it is discernible to anyone who can see and understand evidence, and has the capacity of reason. And THAT notion is counter to conservative thought as I’ve always known it. I was raised in the working class South. It’s very much a pre-Enlightenment world. When I first read about these ideas that led to the founding of this country, I was kind of shocked. When I first read “The Declaration of the Rights of Man” I was shocked. In the social structure I’ve always known, truth comes from Authority. If you want to know what the truth is, you find the man in charge, and you ask him. You can hear this if you listen to the Rush Limbaugh show. It often seems as though callers call in to confirm that they’re seeing the world the “right” way. It’s important to all “be on the same page,” so to speak. How true an idea is depends on the status of the person who speaks that idea. An idea itself has no intrinsic value, and cannot be judged on its own merits. That is a pre-Enlightenment idea that is larger than the South; it is pervasive in corporate culture. In any large company, the worth of an idea wholly depends on one’s place on the “totem pole” within that company. The boss’s nephew is always going to have more valuable ideas than the mailroom employee, for example. How can Enlightenment ideals have any meaning in today’s world, when those ideals are so contrary to the worldview of so many people? » Posted By Buddy McCue On July 5, 2011 @ 1:48 pm SueInC – I can see it. Even Lee Atwater had a moment of remorse when his time had come. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 30, 2011 @ 3:57 pm The Radical Chic Pay Lip Service to the Poor Enough of the “circular firing squad,” that’s what I say! Damn! The Right sure doesn’t have that problem! They have long been the experts at message discipline, and few on the Right have been guilty of breaking Reagan’s famous 11th Commandment (although Newt Gingrich WAS an entertaining (and refreshing) exception.) Now, I’m all for independent thought and freethinking, but attacking our own? Good folks like Katrina Vanden Heuvel? Man, I can’t go for that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 28, 2011 @ 4:40 pmComments Posted By Buddy McCue
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