This is why I love my wife. . .

She is honorable and decent, and will jump at the chance of righting wrongs. She despises injustice and will fly in the face of it.

a l t . FRAMES

The Frame
Originally uploaded by grace*c*

As some of you know, I make picture frames. Well, they're not so much "frames" as they are little works of art enveloping a photograph. I use discarded, antique, and otherwise forgotten media. The one above was commissioned by Cory, and it's an old Erector set, circa 1929.

If you're interested, let me know and we'll talk business (and art).

JULIEANA WILL EAT YOUR FACE!!!!

OMFG KILLER MINNIE!

. . . At the Gay Bar . . .

Ethnic Cleansing, American-Style

Prince William County, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., is making it impossible for illegal immigrants to live there. Crackas and wanna-be crackas believe that Hispanics (they claim illegal ones, but the new rules are so vague it's impossible for a county cop to distinguish between a legal resident, an illegal, and a U.S. citizen except for the Hispanic-sounding surname) are leading to social ills in their precious, manicured county.

If this isn't "ethnic cleansing" a la Américain, then I don't know what is.

Check out the story here.

Just in case you're keeping score...

From the NY Times:

Childbirth: Position of Woman’s Body Could Ease Delivery
By ERIC NAGOURNEY
Published: October 16, 2007
"Women who go onto their hands and knees while in labor may be able to reduce the pain of childbirth, researchers say."



NEWSFLASH:
The Inuit and other native peoples had been doing it this way for thousands of years before "modern" medicine told them not to because it is "savage" and "inhuman."

Ancient Wisdom 1
Elitist Parochialism 0

It's the opening twirl that makes it.

Yet Another Example of How Patriarchy and War Go Hand-in-Hand

Silly Russians. They're even sillier than the Americans. Let's make big, big, big bombs! The Americans' Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) is meant to kill and destroy hundreds of soldiers and tanks at once (as if battlefields even exist anymore). The Russians' Dad of All Bombs is four times more powerful than the Americans'. According to a deputy chief in the Russian military, "it is meant to "protect the nation's security and confront international terrorism in any situation and any region." So when the Chechens take over another theater, instead of gassing everyone to death, the Russians can just blow up the entire town.

I honor those who died by reaming out those who lied.

Six years ago today, medieval assholes killed many people in the United States. This lead to a subsequent (largely vengeful) killing spree in which even more people - outside of the United States - died. And it led to one of the most counter-intuitive and mind-numbingly anti-intellectual foreign policy initiatives in the history of the modern world.

Goddamn, how I deplore fundamentalism.

By the way, I love Naomi Klein. I need to get her new book, which has a "trailer."

What is Iran?

My friend Walt passed this along. When you think of Iran, do you envision burqas and loud populists with chips on their shoulders? Too bad, that's the wrong answer.

Check out what Iran truly is, and the implications of war upon their society.