Photo of the Week 10

This week's installment of my weekly selection of my favorite photo from my Flickr account comes not from my D60 (I'm working on it!) but, rather, from a trip last year to Maine. This features some of the white pines of Acadia National Park.

Line of the Week 3

This line comes from Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens in his dissenting opinion in reference to the case Bush v. Gore:

"[The majority opinion] can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land … Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."

Bureaucracy at Work!

I found a list of SCDMV's various specialty plate. Among the whose-idea-was-that?!?!? plates:

"First in Golf"




"Georgia Tech Foundation" (Yes, GEORGIA Tech).

"NASCAR" (Plus 5 for individual drivers)

"Secular Humanists of the Low Country"

"Shag"

"Sons of the Confederacy"

"Square Dance"

"Working for the Wild Turkey"

There are other stupid plates too... Trust me.

SC Senate: The Pride.

Er, scratch that whole pride idea. This comes to you from SC Senator Kevin Bryant (R - Anderson). This post, as you might imagine, was deleted incredibly quickly. Nice job, Bryant. Nice job.

Photo of the Week 9

This photo is brought to you by my Flickr account. It was taken at an overlook along the Pinnacle Pass Trail at Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area, in the upstate region of SC. Next week, hopefully, I'll have some photos from the D60.

Line of the Week 2

Yesterday (Friday) was my birthday. Since then I've been in a photographic mood, as I now call an amazing Nikon D60 my own. This line comes from Step Across This Line, a collection of short stories, speeches and articles by Salman Rushdie. This particular story, about his being photographed by Avedon, is called "On Being Photographed."

"What the photographer gained, the subject lost; cameras, like fear, ate the soul.
"If you believe the language—and the language never lies, though liars often have the sweetest tongues—then the camera is a weapon: a photograph is a shot, and a session is a shoot, and a portrait may therefore be the trophy the hunter brings home from his shikar. A stuffed head for his wall."

Sanford

I'm so proud of my governor. Yes, he may have vetoed a bill that would require AEDs in all public schools, and, yes, he vetoed an increase in the cigarette tax, which, as it stands today, is one of the lowest in the country. But if there's one thing he CAN do, he can show us that McCain is no different from Bush. Take a look. (Sorry, Mark, you aren't going to be a veep candidate any longer.)