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This blog contains my art and writing that addresses important social and political issues. The blog covers hunger, human and civil rights, women's issues, poverty, war, alcoholism, and numerous other issues.
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Amazing Grace Bible Burning Baptist Church
Should someone tell them that the KJV is a translation allegedly taken from the original texts (which were not written in English)? Nawww, let ‘em be. “We are burning books that we believe to be Satanic,” Pastor Grizzard said. “I believe ...
Art Imitating Life?
Where are the strong female characters in American cinema? The film Amelia (biographical film about Amelia Earhart) opened this weekend to less than enthusiastic reviews. Despite a strong cast, the film is described as “wooden.” American movie-...
Left Versus Right: Anti-Art
For the past few years I have been watching a growing sentiment that political art is not "art." I hesitate to call this sentiment a "movement" per se, but the idea is spreading. The idea that anything political is not true art ...
The Art of Politics
. Nothing causes me more frustration than to hear someone proclaim that politics and religion have no place in art. I will resist the urge to roll my eyes and then dismiss such proclamations as the drivel of the ignorant, since such persons have pe...
Addie Shot A Man
. For those who do not understand the context of this story, it took place many many years ago in the late 1890s in rural Eastern Kentucky. I do not even know if the story is true. I relate it as it was related to me. Anyone who would read this st...
Noisy Machines
Open Letter to My Friends & to RedBubble
The Revival of the Southern Strategy
. William John Bennett served as United States Secretary of Education under Ronald Regan from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. He is ...
Art Action Union Web Canvas
Participating ArtistsHelen Bascom - USABaz Ashworth - JapanPeter J. Hodgson -SantaKaoss - UKMarie Monroe - AustBianca Beetson - AustVictoria Morphy - AustWarchildBender - AfghanistanShanghaiwu - AustLupe Ficara - FranceSpiderGoAtaL - AustTulay - Turk...
The Joke Is Over
So, I’ve seen a few versions of this on RedBubble recently (and you thought art and politics don’t mix?). The image that has been posted all over Los Angeles, California made its way to Washington D.C. and the Sec...
Hands Off: A Domestic Violence Awareness Project
Congratulations to the Students of DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois USA for creating a moving and important short documentary. Show your support for their work by viewing and commenting on their video on YouTube then, pass the video link to some...
Blame it on the Black Man
Barack Hussein Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. When Roe v. Wade , 410 U.S. 113 was decided on 22 January 1973 he was not yet age 12 years. My guess is he probably had no influence on the Court’s d...
Graffiti As Art?
I've always been fascinated by graffiti. I have seen some beautiful art in graffiti. But the messages people leave in public restrooms is a special kind of graffiti. It is like a message in a bottle. The intended recipient may receive the message. B...
Constitutional Right to Privacy?
Unfortunately some of you self proclaimed constitutional scholars don’t know as much as you think you do. For example, did you know that there is no mention of the privacy rights in the Constitution? HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDAND ORIGIN OF THE RIGHT ...
$4.99 Syndrome
There are those that no matter how solid the evidence, no matter how qualified the speaker, will deny any information that does not agree with their notion of how the world works. I call this the $4.99 Syndrome. Essentially the $4.99 Syndrome is t...
Recent Work
There lonely places even in crowded cities.Jeffersonville, Indiana USA March 2009 I am always amazed at the cluttered landscape.New Albany, Indiana USA April 2009One glaring truth about my society is there are places no one cares about.Jeffersonvill...
Fixing the Problem by Declaring War?
Any time that America faces a problem, the government declares “war” on it. We have declared war on: crimepovertydrugsterrorismsexpornographyimmigration What we never seem to realize is that we are declaring a domestic “war” on the pe...
A Global Effort
In 2007 I found this little fellow, his mother and his two brothers abandoned and living in a pile of refuse near my home. They were all so frightened it took days to coax them out. Every day I left food for them, and after a while they started to t...
Long & Winding Road
Freedom is a journey. We have come so far, yet the journey is far from over. Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, and before the hopeful eyes of a Nation and the world."Now is the time to make real the pro...
Anti- Intellectualism and the Assault on Free Thought
What has happened to intellectualism and art? Perhaps I am too sensitive, but over the years I have watched the decline of intellectualism and art appreciation in the United States. In the past decade there seems to have been an all out assault on t...
Copyright Infringement on the Internet
Copyright infringement is a serious problem on the internet. It seems that some people believe if an image or writing is published on the internet, then it must be in the public domain. That makes just about as much sense as claiming that a book av...
The Art of Self Expression
Self expression is an art. Feelings and intentions often fall prey to misinterpretation. The trite expression, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is cause of great consternation for me. There are images and concepts that are universally held a...
