bfwebster on April 15th, 2009

Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs:
And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that Denver’s [...]

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bfwebster on March 28th, 2009

Happy Earth Hour, everyone!
I may leave these on all night! Naah.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on February 28th, 2009

I ran across this photo of VP Joe Biden over at the Wall Street Journal Photo Journal and felt it cried out for captions:

My first thought was: “So, whaddya think? Sauteed? Roasted?”  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on December 21st, 2008

From Jules Crittenden:

Heh.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on December 16th, 2008

No, I’m not talking about the current economic meltdown. It turns out that Bavaria has some interesting Christmas customs:

The gallery of Bavarian Christmas photos explains:
The troll-like Perchten or Krampus emerge when it gets dark. The gnarled and gruesome figures stomp through the Christmas markets of Bavaria, scaring children and sometimes even give women a spanking.
Cool! [...]

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bfwebster on November 13th, 2008

[Thanks to Ace of Spades for the link!]
Over the past decade or so, astronomers have discovered over 300 extra-solar planets, that is, planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. However, these discoveries have largely been indirect, due to the planet transiting the star it orbits, or variations in the radial velocity of the star.
But now [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 30th, 2008

For the past two days I have been in the far north of Scotland, in a county called Caithness. It is as far north as you can go on the island of Britain without a boat.
Caithness is the land of my Henderson ancestors, and in particular the area around a village called Dunbeath.
First and [...]

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bfwebster on October 1st, 2008

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it [...]

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bfwebster on September 15th, 2008

As I noted earlier, I actually like the underlit photograph of John McCain that moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg secretly shot while taking his photograph for the cover of The Atlantic.
S. Weasel has now done her own photoshop of the underlit image:

It sort of says, “Vote for me or die.” Heh.
And here’s an earlier photoshop from [...]

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bfwebster on July 12th, 2008

Here’s the real thing:

Hat tip to Kevin Williamson at the National Review Media blog. ..bruce w..

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