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Op-Ed: Renoir's Beauty Remains, Continues to Leave Impressionist Marks

In the last years of his life, Renoir had arthritis so bad that a brush had to be strapped to his hand so that he could paint. When asked why he continued to work in such conditions he replied, "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
Posted Mar 14, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 17 comments

Op-Ed: Protecting students from literature in Illinois

The small, but ethnically diverse, town of Deerfield, Illinois, has recently been propelled into the the spotlight by news that seniors of the local high school are being required to read an award-winning play by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Posted Mar 11, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 132 comments

Op-Ed: Art and Religion in the Public Square

Two recent cases have once again focused the spotlight on two very different but closely related controversies: the one having to do with the place of religion in public buildings and the other with the role of art in those very same buildings.
Posted Mar 9, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 109 comments

Op-Ed: Goliath loses again, Israel retreats

After yet another humiliating defeat, the once mighty Israeli forces have retreated from Gaza under a whithering bombardment of international condemnation, their mission ending once again in failure.
Posted Mar 4, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 32 comments

Op-Ed: The Art of Delusion

George W. Bush has become synonymous with intelligence failures. He was wrong about WMD and Al Queata in Iraq and a host of other vital topics but nothing sums up his failure of intelligence quite so well as his taste in art.
Posted Mar 1, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 11 comments

Israel cuts off chlorine to purify Palestinian water

Although "group punishment" is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, the Israelis have cut off supplies of chlorine to Gaza which are desperately needed to help purify the water supply of the 1.5 million residents.
Posted Feb 27, 2008 by  lensman67 in World | 31 comments

Op-Ed: London Calling, Fat Jesus poster banned

Still smarting from their ignominious retreat on the Lucas Cranach poster, the guardians of public morals at the London Transit Authority have banned yet another poster for being "offensive." This time it's an ad for a new play called "Fat Jesus."
Posted Feb 26, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 37 comments

Op-Ed: Naked or nude, the tube caves on sexy poster

Officials at the London Transport Authority have beat an ignominious retreat in the face of world wide ridicule and agreed to put up posters depicting a 16th century nude painting intended to advertise an art show at the Royal Academy
Posted Feb 26, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 7 comments

Op Ed: Guantanimo: What part of innocent is unclear?

So far of the 775 prisoners held without rights in Guantanamo the US Government has admitted that the 420 of them were innocent people wrongfully detained. How do we know that they were innocent? Because they were released without charge!
Posted Feb 24, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 32 comments

New York Times links McCain with lobbyist in sex scandal

The New York Times has just released a story suggesting a romantic link between Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman back during the Senator's first run for the White House in 2000.
Posted Feb 20, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 32 comments

Op-Ed: Where's the beef? Perhaps you ate it

The recall last Sunday of 143 million pounds of tainted beef has once again turned a spotlight on the topic of why we have Federal regulations on food safety and what happens when anti-government ideologues have charge of the government.
Posted Feb 18, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 15 comments

Rio's famous Jesus struck by lightening

The largest statue of Jesus in the world, which stands atop the 2,296 foot tall Corocovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, was struck by lightening last Sunday. .
Posted Feb 18, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 14 comments

Op Ed: Dr. Rossiter's message: "I know you are but what am I?"

Several years after a Federally funded study found that conservatism was a mental disorder a Right Wing psychiatrist has released a book, timed for the election cycle, claiming the same things about Liberals. Are we to believe that this is a coincidence?
Posted Feb 17, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 90 comments

Naked or nude it's still too sexy for the tube

Officials at the London Transport Authority, which runs the subway system, have refused to display a poster depicting a 16th century nude painting intended to advertise an art show at the Royal Academy because they said it was too overtly sexual.
Posted Feb 16, 2008 by  lensman67 in Arts | 108 comments

Op-Ed: The Shame of Guantanamo

Since its opening, the Guantanamo concentration camp has been a shame and humiliation to the US, sparking widespread hatred of America and prompting many countries that were once our allies to refuse cooperate in the "war on terror."
Posted Feb 15, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 31 comments

Rape just ain't like it use to be.

Tennessee State Senator Doug Henry waxed nostalgic over good old- fashioned rape during a recent debate over attempts to amend the state constitution to say that it does not guarantee the right to abortion or require funding for abortion.
Posted Feb 14, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 13 comments

Op-Ed: For Republican Congressmen, the new battle cry is 'run away!'

An ever rising number of senior Republican Congress-persons are deciding not to run again next November. Growing public hostility towards Republican "values" coupled with a decline in campaign contributions has prompted many to get out while they can.
Posted Jan 31, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 33 comments

Israeli report concludes war in Lebannon a big failure

The report of a special team of investigators, appointed by the Israeli government, to look into that country's 2006 war in Lebanon has concluded that that conflict was a "large and serious failure" for the country's once famous armed forces.
Posted Jan 30, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics

Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction From Cancer

The Tasmanian Devil, the small furry creature from Australia, not the cartoon character, is in danger of being driven to extinction by a transmissible form of cancer that appears to be spread by facial tumors.
Posted Jan 29, 2008 by  lensman67 in Environment | 7 comments

Op-Ed: Dead Man Walking - Bush Makes His Last State of the Union Address

Last night marked the first of the lasts for the waning presidency of George Bush--his last State of the Union speech. The announcer called "The President of the United States" as Bush started for the podium. He might as well have said "Dead man walking."
Posted Jan 29, 2008 by  lensman67 in Politics | 26 comments
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