Biking on the beach

I stopped to take a picture

Beer

I think that I shall never hear
A poem more lovelier than beer
The stuff on tap most every place
with snowy cap and golden base
I actually remember that from Mad Magazine before I even drank beer.

Breakfast

yogurt,walnuts,cherries,watermelon,cantelope,raisins and honey
Oh,yeah,blueberries and pineapple

Cat

Saw this guy while riding my bike on the beach.
He stopped, let me take the picture and moved on.

Ocean Mist-now available

Alleged Gay Bridge

To be fair,it changes colors every 10 seconds or so. The other colors don't ask
and don't tell...but they're still not all that comfortable with it.

On Sale at Publix

RBG

So...now that I'm unemployed I have lot's of time to play with the produce I find in the refrigerator.

My Bedroom

Getting a little crowded in here.Gotta get rid of a lot of stuff or rent a room somewhere.Click photo to view larger

According to Rush Limbaugh

I keep getting E-mails and comments from the legions of Limbaugh acolytes who
seriously believe that the people in the list above are the vanguard of the socialist movement in the U.S.
One collection of posters currently making the rounds in cyberspace portrays Obama
as both a socialist and a fascist. There is apparently no contradiction in terms there for these social scientists. Mixed metaphors-no problema. Trillion dollar bailouts
for wealthy capitalists-a clever disguise for the hidden socialist agenda.Arrgghhh!

Exponential Math Video

Highly recommended for the innumerate and mathematically challenged.
Part 1 of 8. Watch them all on you tube.

On the way home

Well...because it's really bright,brilliant even.

No leaks

Shot in chest high water off Hollywood Beach.
Canon G9 with DC21waterproof housing
Yeah...it doesn't leak.

Colors on Indiana Street

Harley with training wheels

I might be wrong but they sure look like training wheels to me.

Oscar Levant

Lowrider Website

This is the still in construction Lowrider website. click on the title above to go there.
Two headshots by Danielle/Scott.

Jack and I

I'm the guy on the right.

Lowriders

These guys build lowriders and restore classic cars. The photos are for their website.

necklaces

Shot these for a friend's girlfriend to sell on E-bay.
Back in the early seventies I used to sell this kind of beaded jewelry at art fairs around the country.I was living with my friends Wynn and Jesse in Baton Rouge and on weekends we'd split up and travel to whatever shows were within a days drive.I would shoot photos similar to this to submit to the juried shows.

Exposure test

I kind of like this.I think I'll use it for the jacket cover of my novel.
Well... If I had a novel, I'd use it.

The Boatyard

We took the boat to the boatyard on Monday for the biannual out of the water Coast Guard inspection.

Fish

I spotted this fish on the way to the boatyard somewhere along the New River near downtown Ft. Lauderdale.

Warning

click on picture to view larger

Hollywood Beach Parking Garage

Downtown Hollywood

Yikes,it's depressing. Fortunately there's no tall buildings to jump out of.

A parrot,a blue bird, a yellow bird and a butterfly

click to view larger

Laundry Day

Our importance in the Universe

Top:the view from 8 million miles away
Bottom:enlarged view
So...before you begin to take yourself too seriously...
See March 27,2008-Pale Blue Dot

The World's Biggest Microscope

If you pause the video once it starts playing you can then click on the watch full video button and choose individual chapters.Try chapter 8,The LHC MUsic Video

It's That Time Of Year Again

I know,not til Dec.21. I'm just so excited,I could not wait. I can just smell the chestnuts burning on the Yule log or something like that...

Really Big Lizard

Iguanaburgers? Lemon crusted iguana with Mango chutney? Gotta be something.

Detail- Hollywood Beach

There must be some great lesson to be learned from this video

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

You can read the story of how this video came about at http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/about.shtml

color-Hollywood Beach

Now that the election is over, I can stop obsessing over the Bush administration and concentrate on more important things like bright colored buildings in late afternoon sun.

Tennis Bums of Jefferson Park

Tina Fey Nails It Again

It seems that the most incisive political commentary is done by comedians.

Tina Fey on SNL

I love Tina Fey

Republicans and military men on John McCain

McCain's First Choice

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Here we go again

Republicans,Neocons,Conservatives,whatever they call themselves, consider the public to be ignorant and construct their attacks accordingly.It's worked for them so well in the past...why change?

Why Even Bother,They don't show up in Court anyway.

How Times Have Changed

How short our memories! Three articles of impeachment were approved by the House Judiciary Committee on July 27, 1974; Nixon resigned less than two weeks later. But what were those charges, and how do they relate to George W. Bush today? Among the charges were these:

-- Without lawful cause or excuse [Richard M. Nixon] “failed to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House…and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas…thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested in the Constitution in the House of Representatives.”

-- “Endeavouring to cause prospective defendants…to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony.”

-- “Endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency.”

Ray McGovern points this out at...

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern08202008.html

US 'escalates covert Iran missions'

Ex-CIA Ray McGovern on Obama's 'new world'

Sy Hersh at Campus Progress journalism conference

What were the proposals that were not rejected? Shouldn't we be concerned that the Vice president is holding meetings to find ways to start more wars?

Fox " Journalism"

These guys are pathetic.But they're smarter than their audience and that's really scary

How To Look Presidential by George Bush

"My name's George Bush...People call me George Bush."

101 Photoshop Tips

Paris Hilton for President

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Spacetime Wheel

click above for a look at four dimensional spacetime flattened to two dimensions. Look at this for several hours while trying to figure out what it means and come to the conclusion-"I'm no Einstein."

Slide

Last Day of Vacation

I took this self portrait on the last day before I change couches and go back to work. The couch at work is green.

Mr. Deity Episode 1: Mr. Deity and the Evil

Who wins?

Memo to Obama, McCain: No one wins in a war
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Howard Zinn
July 17, 2008

BARACK OBAMA and John McCain continue to argue about war. McCain says to keep the troops in Iraq until we "win" and supports sending more troops to Afghanistan. Obama says to withdraw some (not all) troops from Iraq and send them to fight and "win" in Afghanistan.

For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children?

Did we "win" by going to war in Korea? The result was a stalemate, leaving things as they were before with a dictatorship in South Korea and a dictatorship in North Korea. Still, more than 2 million people - mostly civilians - died, the United States dropped napalm on children, and 50,000 American soldiers lost their lives.

Did we "win" in Vietnam? We were forced to withdraw, but only after 2 million Vietnamese died, again mostly civilians, again leaving children burned or armless or legless, and 58,000 American soldiers dead.

Did we win in the first Gulf War? Not really. Yes, we pushed Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, with only a few hundred US casualties, but perhaps 100,000 Iraqis died. And the consequences were deadly for the United States: Saddam was still in power, which led the United States to enforce economic sanctions. That move led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, according to UN officials, and set the stage for another war.

In Afghanistan, the United States declared "victory" over the Taliban. Now the Taliban is back, and attacks are increasing. The recent US military death count in Afghanistan exceeds that in Iraq. What makes Obama think that sending more troops to Afghanistan will produce "victory"? And if it did, in an immediate military sense, how long would that last, and at what cost to human life on both sides?

The resurgence of fighting in Afghanistan is a good moment to reflect on the beginning of US involvement there. There should be sobering thoughts to those who say that attacking Iraq was wrong, but attacking Afghanistan was right.

Go back to Sept. 11, 2001. Hijackers direct jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing close to 3,000 A terrorist act, inexcusable by any moral code. The nation is aroused. President Bush orders the invasion and bombing of Afghanistan, and the American public is swept into approval by a wave of fear and anger. Bush announces a "war on terror."

Except for terrorists, we are all against terror. So a war on terror sounded right. But there was a problem, which most Americans did not consider in the heat of the moment: President Bush, despite his confident bravado, had no idea how to make war against terror.

Yes, Al Qaeda - a relatively small but ruthless group of fanatics - was apparently responsible for the attacks. And, yes, there was evidence that Osama bin Laden and others were based in Afghanistan. But the United States did not know exactly where they were, so it invaded and bombed the whole country. That made many people feel righteous. "We had to do something," you heard people say.

Yes, we had to do something. But not thoughtlessly, not recklessly. Would we approve of a police chief, knowing there was a vicious criminal somewhere in a neighborhood, ordering that the entire neighborhood be bombed? There was soon a civilian death toll in Afghanistan of more than 3,000 - exceeding the number of deaths in the Sept. 11 attacks. Hundreds of Afghans were driven from their homes and turned into wandering refugees.

Two months after the invasion of Afghanistan, a Boston Globe story described a 10-year-old in a hospital bed: "He lost his eyes and hands to the bomb that hit his house after Sunday dinner." The doctor attending him said: "The United States must be thinking he is Osama. If he is not Osama, then why would they do this?"

We should be asking the presidential candidates: Is our war in Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself terrorism?

Howard Zinn is author of "A People's History of the United States."
© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Waterboarding 101

Imagine what this is like when the guy with the jug is not your friend.

Arrested Development-Pilot

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