Category: Doodles
Ball point pen on envelpoe. While it's liberating to draw on trash, (see above) occasionally there's a drawing I wish I had saved. About two months ago I saw an article in the paper about a little known (at least to me) Albany bureaucrat. The article (as I recall) revolved around a wrongful firing suit against said bureaucrat. The plaintiff claimed that he was fired on the basis of race, he was white, the defendant black. The defense was that said bureaucrat is blind and had no idea the plaintiff was white. Sort of interesting...but not so much that I remembered his name. He did have an interesting face. So, I drew him in the news paper and summarily through it in the recycling bin at the end of the day....A few weeks later, then Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer is caught in a prostitution/money laundering scandal. He has to step down and a little known bureaucrat, David Paterson, r ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint. I can see myself going out for a beer with John McCain, and it's been said that many americans want that in a president. If you think it doesn't matter, you're either underestimating americans love of beer or overestimating their thought process in choosing a leader. Americans regularly choose a candidate based on race, gender, heritage, or even sex appeal... campaigns know it, and they're not above courting any demographic. The most forced example was Hilary's campaign having a photo-op kegger on the plane with the press and Senator Clinton drinking beer out of a large red plastic cup. Haaa!....I think the Joe-Sixpack vote goes to McCain. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on morning newsprint. I love Jon Stewart's line 'Normally when you see a black man or a woman president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.' Until now, casting the role has been a tool to immediately tell the audience it's the future and move on to the plot. Are screen writers and casting agents waiting to see who wins in November before filling the role of a fictitious future president? I wish I could have voted for 24's David Palmer. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on morning newsprint. McCain said today, "General Petraeus and I and Osama bin Laden are in agreement." (that Iraq is the central battleground).... I know he wants to distance himself from President Bush, but he may want to rethink aligning himself with Osama if he wants to win in November. Ball point pen on the morning newsprint. ...
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