Salon's own lunatic Libertarian, Glenn Greenwald, has crossed a line.

In a Twitter exchange, he said that President Obama's supporters would literally excuse the President committing rape.

Here's the Twitter screencap:

First, I'd have to believe President Obama would in fact do such… Read full post »

A late winter sunset - from last year.  I could have let the skyline go black too, though I prefer the separation caused by preservation of detail in the trees. Read full post »

Sometimes, on a walk, something catches my eye.  This guy did. Read full post »

She clung to a tree, and she also sat in a window. Read full post »

Out & about one day with a friend... Read full post »

Sometimes I just like to go for a walk.  Some of those times, I take a camera along.  The problem then becomes one of deciding what to put a rectangle around.

 I was on a back trail in one of my favorite walking parks, late in… Read full post »

Another one from the series.

This one is a fountain in Rice Park, in downtown St. Paul.  It's set up to deliver conical sprays, which I rarely see.  (Maybe I need to get out more?) Read full post »

Another from my series of high speed moving water, at a shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second.

 This one is of multiple streams from a fountain.  I particularly like the way they break at the peak of their arching.

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 We can't experience 1/4000 of a second directly.  We're simply not wired for that.  Not you, not me, no one.

That's why high shutter speeds are nice.  Streams of water look very different when time is divided that way.

This will be an occasional serie… Read full post »