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The Barre Flies visit Wheeldon’s Alice, and, as always, demonstrate quite individual flight paths. Go to TheBarreFlies.com.

That’s what’s been sprayed on the façade of a low-rise apartment building near me. I hope it stays up for a long time.

15 good ideas–and what do you know? Not a single one involves blowing civilians to smithereens! David Swanson at Worldbeyondwar.org enumerates.

Their mindless rank-closing-around-the-President drivel is even more pathetic than Obama’s channeling of GWB. I mean, are we really hearing this?? The Guardian says they said these things, so I guess they did. Are they animatronics? “He has the legal authority. … Continue reading →

Joh Queally at CommonDreams details the “scathing” response by people who know what they’re talking about to Obama’s perpetuation of 24/7 war.  I’m afraid tht it’s only a matter of  time before the neocons get the war with Iran that … Continue reading →

I thought I’d better give Violette Verdy’s full title at Indiana University, given that I knew how decorated she is: And so I contacted Robin and she supplied it: IT IS: Violette Verdy Distinguished Professor of Ballet Kathy Ziliak Anderson Chair … Continue reading →

* Except if you saw it in 1967. Violette Verdy’s uncannily efficient assistant Robin sent at my request a DVD of silent footage of Verdy’s performance in Emeralds. I’d heard about it and wanted to research the original cast. Verdy … Continue reading →

It might as well be a decade ago: virtually the same U.S. foreign policy nightmare is now unfolding. The White House today primes us for another open-ended-unto eternity military conflict in the Middle East. And they are priming us with … Continue reading →

Obama continues his campaign to throw the Senate to the GOP, ordering 350 more troops to Iraq and intensifying the bombing, while frothing-at-the-mouth Dems like Bill Nelson add to the apocalyptic fun. And  people who actually know what they’re talking … Continue reading →

It used to be a staple of Connecticut and New York county lanes: great big naturalized clumps of orange day lillies. In the 1980s they started disappearing. The culprit: deer, but really humans. Massive development eliminated deer habitat and their panicked reaction was to … Continue reading →