Tuesday, October 25, 2005

82 Years Ago


CHEERS to eerie timing. On the same day that Fitzgerald's indictments might come down, we note that 82 years ago a Senate committee published its first report on the Teapot Dome scandal. Second-worst Republican president ever, Warren G. Harding's cronies were allowing private companies to lease government oil reserves from public land in Wyoming. As a result of the investigation, Interior Secretary Albert Fall became the first cabinet member to go to jail. And with any luck, that cell will soon be filled to capacity. --from Bill in Portland, Me.
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Karoda said...

Fitzgerald's announcement is due tomorrow and my imagination has been busy with the possibilities...makes me feel sooo diabolically hopeful!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly