Title: the sad red earth

People of Earth 1

Published on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:39:21

An interview with Pamunkey Indian Chief Kevin Brown. (The first in a new series.) Spanish soldiers made often brutal explorations into the southeastern area of North America, including Virginia, all throughout the sixteenth century. The English themselves attempted a colony at Roanoke long before succeeding at Jamestown, where the colonists came in contact with the read more..

Iguazu Falls

Published on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:30:48

This is my adventure to Iguazu, between Argentina and Brazil. The night shot is from the full moon walk out to Devils throat from the Argentina side. It is all a sight to be seen. The helicopter ride from the Brazil side is a must. What a thrill. If one has a chance of this read more..

You Talkin’ to Me?

Published on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:07:52

On Banning the Burka I’ve been meaning for some days to touch on a subject Norm Geras raised recently at Normblog – the wearing of the burka by Muslim women and the appropriateness, in all due consideration of civil and religious liberties, of a nation banning the practice in public, as the French are debating. I read more..

Some Random Buenos Aires

Published on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:18:13

In Recoleta Cemetery, burial place of Eva Peron and many notables, among the mausolea. Photography by Julia Dean AJA read more..

How We Lived on It (12)

Published on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:54:38

Our presence in Buenos Aires suggests a stirring return to How We Lived on It (7), and its tribute to the Tango. Number 12 is in a not dissimilar vein. Photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue Model & Muse: Renée Perle Music from the film The Moderns, by Alan Rudolph, score (The Moderns: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Mark Isham, and read more..

On the Road

Published on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:47:19

Julia and I will be traveling in Argentina & Uruguay over the next two weeks – we just landed in Buenos Aires yesterday – so posting will be a little erratic. I will try to keep it up, though, and interesting. Since I’m with a pack of voracious photographers, I’m going to flatter them with read more..

Culture Matters

Published on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:34:59

The late comedian Sam Kinison had a classic, foul-mouthed routine about common sense advice to the regular victims of famine in certain remote areas of the world – something to the effect of YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE STARVING? YOU LIVE IN A DESERT! THERE’S NO FOOD THERE! NOTHING GROWS THERE! NOTHING IS GOING TO GROW read more..

Indian Country Betting on the Future

Published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:00:55

Indian Gaming, like reservations, is a complex subject. I address it now because of the coming premiere at the Sundance Film Festival of Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s documentary on Jack Abramoff and his lobbyistg scamming of everyone, including, as always, his own clients – various Indian Tribes read more..

That’s What They Think, Thursday 1/28/2010

Published on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:30:34

Jeff Weintraub, Comments and Controversies – Pass the Damn Bill He’s been saying it all week long: Democrats, don’t be punks. Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times – Serpico on Serpico For film aficionados and New Yorkers of a certain age: Frank Serpico today. How a whole life can turn on one series of events. Jeffrey Goldberg – The read more..

The Convergence of the Twain – A Mind Game’s Post

Published on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:30:51

And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. Thomas Hardy, “The Convergence of the Twain” Judeosphere has only been back to blogging a few weeks, but he is quickly making his mark again with very sharp and important posts. A couple of days ago he posted on Ernest read more..

Indians Caught in the Middle

Published on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:30:57

It is generally observed by those who believe that Native Americans receive far too much sympathy for the effect on their cultures of the European arrival in the Western Hemisphere – as if it served as the argumentative coup de grâce – that Indian Tribes throughout the Western Hemisphere warred with each long before and read more..

Mind Games: The Movie

Published on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:30:17

Well, not really. It’s actually “mind games, the photographs,” but that doesn’t provide the same hook. Mind Games, the movie, by the way, would be the September 30, 2000 France2 video of Muhammad al Durah, a Palestinian boy in the arms of his father, purportedly being shot by Israeli soldiers – an event that was read more..

That’s What They Think, Monday 1/25/2010

Published on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:30:54

Judeosphere - Human Rights Watch’s Conflict of Interests There are none so blind. HRW continues its descent. See, also, here. Adam Holland – Ron Paul lets his freak flag fly: says CIA coup has occurred. Paul’s pot reveals another crack – for the those who just haven’t yet been able to see him in the kichen. Bill Roggio, The read more..

How We Lived on It (11) – Six Feet Under Finale

Published on Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:30:57

Final six minutes. The finales of so many great television series disappoint. This is one of the few that did not. Song: “Breathe Me” by Sia. read more..

Next, Corporate Marriage

Published on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:43:58

My post about the just rendered Supreme Court decision on campaign spending limitations, Corporations Are People Too, has received some comments that require response enough to deserve a post. Basically, the argument is that, no, really, corporations are people too, and liberals are frauds for arguing otherwise. I have already acknowledged that the law has, in read more..

Eating Poetry* (VIII) – Our Other History

Published on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:30:17

From The Great World by David Malouf: He was speaking of poetry itself, of the hidden part it played in their lives… How it spoke up, not always in the plainest terms, since that wasn’t always possible, but in precise ones just the same, for what is deeply felt and might otherwise go unrecorded: all those read more..

Corporations Are People Too

Published on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:40:07

Yesterday a five-judge liberal conservative activist majority conservatively radically respected overturned a century of multiple Supreme Court precedents and with respect contempt for the original intent of the framers, more fully than ever declared that corporations are people deserving of “special rights” – the right to buy elections. (You don’t have enough money to buy read more..

Mind Games: a Demonstration

Published on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:35:07

Robin Shephard, in his analysis of a BBC documentary on Jerusalem, offers us an example of bias and distortion at work. “Under international law,” [Jane Corbin] tells us earnestly, “East Jerusalem is occupied territory; its status shouldn’t be changed.” Well, good to know that we haven’t wasted much time before she introduces her very own, and quite read more..

That’s What They Think, Friday 1/22/2010

Published on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:30:08

Hendrik Hertzberg – One Year: Beware of Sudden Downdrafts What he said. And I said yesterday, only mo better. Obama, healthcare, what’s going on and down. Daniel Indiviglio – Goldman Shareholder Revolts With Lawsuit Where the anger should be. Rob Capriccioso, Indian Country Today – Elouise Cobell, woman warrior The woman behind an Indian victory. William Major and Bryan Sinche, The read more..

Democrats Are Punks.

Published on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:26:18

I’m not a fire breather. I’m really not. Really. I’m not. I thought Moveon.org had something to do with Monica Lewinsky getting over it already. The Daily Kos? Can I find that on the newsstands? (The what?) But Democrats are punks. Really. They are. In Politics and Shame I argued how the Democrats had voted in large numbers for Reagan’s read more..