Good Grief, Happy Halloween

The Thinker

Auguste Rodin's The Thinker. In shadow at San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum.

Disappoint Mints

A week before potentially seismic mid-term election results for the Obama administration's grandiose plans to "transform America" if not the universe, the "greatness" obituaries are popping up in more than just the usual places.

From Charles Krauthammer in the National Review - "Barack Obama, Bewildered Bystander":

"His principal job, after all, is to administer the government and to get the right people to do it. (That’s why we typically send governors rather than senators to the White House.) That’s called management. Obama had never managed anything before running for the biggest management job on earth. It shows."

More surprising is Jeff Shesol's article "Obama and the End of Greatness" in The New Yorker:

"So, for all our disappointment over the fact that Obama’s Presidency has been—in the parlance of the political scientists—more transactional than transformational, we should probably stop knocking him for not being Lincoln (even if it was Obama himself who encouraged the comparison)."

The Phone Call

The Phone Call.

What can I say?

I Feel Good

Tea for the Tillerman

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

O Canada, thud!

Ok, you'd be a little rusty after a long summer too.

What happened to Saturday morning cartoons?

I say, I say, can it really be so?

What happened to Saturday morning cartoons?

Butterflies!

Butterflies of North America.