Last night there was an in Juarez, Mexico, so severe that parts of the area are closed down. Drug gang warfare has made life dangerous for everyone along our border.A "major gunbattle" between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.Three police officers were injured and one armed suspect was killed, federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said.First reports of gunshots came in...…Last night there was an in Juarez, Mexico, so severe that parts of the area are closed down. Drug gang warfare has made life dangerous for everyone along our border.A "major gunbattle" between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.Three police officers were injured and one armed suspect was killed, federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said.First reports of gunshots came in...WW…

 Bather Arranging Her HairAugust heat has one wonderful effect, that of sending us looking for things to do in cool indoors, like visit the National Gallery of Art in D.C.Today I’d like to see more of the dreamlike paintings Renoir gifted us with.   Though by present standards, they’re a little romantic, these are always wonderful worlds filled with light and fanciful prettiness.Renoir joined for awhile in the impressionist movement, and developed much of its with the later painters in that style.The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life,...… Bather Arranging Her HairAugust heat has one wonderful effect, that of sending us looking for things to do in cool indoors, like visit the National Gallery of Art in D.C.Today I’d like to see more of the dreamlike paintings Renoir gifted us with.   Though by present standards, they’re a little romantic, these are always wonderful worlds filled with light and fanciful prettiness.Renoir joined for awhile in the impressionist movement, and developed much of its with the later painters in that style.The works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life,...WW…

The present wingnut outcry about the administration’s use of preemption to work against Arizona’s discriminatory use of law enforcement should be the subject of cartoonists. In the administration from Hell – though that’s not fair to Hell, where reputedly you only get punished for actual sins – the attempt to bring Federal Law to override state laws was an attempt to weaken individual rights to bring suit against pharmaceutical firms that did them harm.In that instance, the previous Department of Injustice sought to get the Supreme Court to rule that the weakened Federal statutes should...…The present wingnut outcry about the administration’s use of preemption to work against Arizona’s discriminatory use of law enforcement should be the subject of cartoonists. In the administration from Hell – though that’s not fair to Hell, where reputedly you only get punished for actual sins – the attempt to bring Federal Law to override state laws was an attempt to weaken individual rights to bring suit against pharmaceutical firms that did them harm.In that instance, the previous Department of Injustice sought to get the Supreme Court to rule that the weakened Federal statutes should...WW…

CommunityMy FDLIn the central square of the walled city of Dubrovnik, a clock tower dominates.   It’s a wonderful clock tower, part of Sponza Palace, and has been rebuilt a few times after destructive earthquakes and wars rumbled through.Long a feature there are the historic strikers, nicknamed Maro and Baro, built in 1477/8 by Michelozzo di Bartoleomeo, whose assistant quite  probably was  il Greco.The two actual figures have been removed so that they could be preserved as artworks, and replicas now faithfully strike the hours on the central building in Dubrovnik, while...…CommunityMy FDLIn the central square of the walled city of Dubrovnik, a clock tower dominates.   It’s a wonderful clock tower, part of Sponza Palace, and has been rebuilt a few times after destructive earthquakes and wars rumbled through.Long a feature there are the historic strikers, nicknamed Maro and Baro, built in 1477/8 by Michelozzo di Bartoleomeo, whose assistant quite  probably was  il Greco.The two actual figures have been removed so that they could be preserved as artworks, and replicas now faithfully strike the hours on the central building in Dubrovnik, while...WW…