Gross-of-Sharron: Nevada’s Delicate Flower of Teabagging

Personalized Glitter Graphics Gee.  Wonder why U.S. Senate GOP candidate Sharron Angle flees in terror from reporters? Cuz when it comes to, say, a teenager giving birth to her rapist uncle’s baby…”God has a plan.”  Sharron is convinced: Bill Manders: Is there any reason at all for an abortion? Sharon Angle: Not in my book. [...]

The Gatun Locks on the Panama Canal

A glance at the map begins to give you an idea of the extraordinary engineering feat accomplished with the construction of the Panama Canal.  Damming the Chagres River created what was in 1913 the world’s largest man-made lake.  Gatun Lake sees Panama and its Canal through the dry season between January and March.   The [...]

Kayaking the Panama Canal

Costa Rica is a nation of hippies compared to Panama.  The contrast is hysterical.  Where Costa Rica prides itself on literacy, conservation, being a non-military state, and wresting power from the United Fruit Company, Panama boasts mostly about how goddamn awesome the nation is for its Canal.  The country backs up its bragging with the [...]

Central American Critters

Costa Rican Pink Torch Ginger Besides a glorious array of vegetation, Central America dazzled us with its wildlife.  The first animal we saw a sloth.  I don’t know if it was a two or three toed sloth, but a mama and a baby rested in a tree above our heads. Maybe this is a two-toed [...]

Like Anything for Chocolate…

Theobroma means “food of the gods.”  That’s why Alexa and I showed up.  The goddesses were hungry for more heavenly fare. (No slight intended to Freedom’s lobster tail and filet mignon.)  The Cacao tree is an evergreen producing beans all year round. The flowers are pollinated by bees, butterflies, and moths.  Three young beans are [...]

Falling in Love with Costa Rica

I’d live in Costa Rica.  It’s absolutely beautiful.  The country receives 18 feet of rain a year, but the sun shined for us.  Wherever there isn’t a planation, house, or road, there’s rainforest.  Alexa and I visited a Cacao plantation that promised homemade chocolate whipped up right in the great outdoors. Costa Rica boasts 97% [...]

Cruising to Central America

I’m finally in the mood to post pictures from my daughter’s and my trip to Central America.  I’ve never eaten so much in my life.  The nice hazy effect on this shot happened because I brought the camera from AC to 95° temperatures in about 1000% percent humidity.  Thanks to the tropics, I now know [...]

Barton Calls Takebacks!

Myspace Glitter Graphics Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) lost his mind his frickin’ mind and PUBLICLY APOLOGIZED to BP’s CEO at a congressional hearing.   Barton called President Obama’s 20 billion dollar fund, money set aside by BP for economic victims and recovery on the Gulf Coast, “a tragedy in the first proportion that a private [...]

Rep. Cao to BP Exec: You May Die with Honor

During the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Florida) invited BP chairman Lamar McKay to resign for the company’s miserable, repeated failures in the Gulf of Mexico.  But Vietnamese-American Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao (R-Louisiana) who represents Gretna (near New Orleans), tapped his roots in suggesting Stearns next career move: Mr. Stearns asked Mr. [...]

More Pre-BP Photos of the Gulf

Don’t have a lot of time, but here are some pictures from June 3, 2010: