Author: DXO
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Robert Christy, Artist
Robert Christy, Artist Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s more paintings from my friend Robert Christy. Faithful, beautiful pleine aire paintings of scenes in Southern California, Sendona, Arizona, Las Vegas, Chicago, Wisconsin. Gorgeous. Here’s his artist statement from the Robert Christy, Artist website: I have been a full-time artist for 20 years. I’ve lived…
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U.S. Checkpoints Raise Ire in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 6 – When an Italian journalist was driven up Baghdad’s airport road toward an American military checkpoint on Friday night, she was driving into a situation fraught with hazards thousands of Iraqis face every day.
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BTK: No Show, No Call
In today’s NYT, we’ve got a deeper story about Witchita’s BTK Killer, who was finally caught last week. Couple lessons: 1. It’s the sticklers, the true believers, and the inflexibly “correct” that we have to worry about: “He looked for absolutely everything, and he must have enforced every rule there ever was – just because…
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John Noble Wilford
I have a degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Now that’s not exactly a phrase that I have an occasion to utter very often in my daily life as an internet consultant & failed poet, but it is a part of my identity that informs everything else. One of the great…
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Metra Reversible Seats
Flips Back & Forth Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Yesterday I took the Metra. I was reminded how well-designed their reversible seats are. Sturdy, thick, simple device for flipping the seat over and facing the other direction if you feel like moving forward, with the train, seeing what’s up ahead; or if you feel…