Photo of message on the pavement in Wellington, NZ, 2020

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Photo credit: Ballofstring, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“The mark of intellectual honesty …”

“The mark of intellectual honesty is the solicitation of opposing points of view.”

— Tom Clancy, in The Sum of All Fears, 1991

 

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Tom Clancy at Burns Library, Boston College. Taken by Gary Wayne Gilbert. Gary Wayne Gilbert, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“White River at Sharon,” Edward Hopper, 1937

Watercolor.

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Re: “WandaVision.”

I think we finally figured out who Agnes was as a little girl …

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Photo of graffiti in Island Bay, NZ, during the COVID-19 lockdown, 2020.

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Photo credit: Ballofstring, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

There is no filter here.

This is Fair View Cemetery in Roanoke, Virginia, on a dour and trippy day.  The winglike appearance in the sunlight is kinda neat.

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Variant cover to “Batgirl” #45, Terry and Rachel Dodson, 2020

Cover B.  DC Comics.

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Please call your state’s senators to help the people of Texas.

A dear friend of mine wrote the message below.  People in the Lone Star State are desperate.

(Damn it, Texans, I am so sorry for what you’re going through.)

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Engraving depicting The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Date and artist unknown.

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WHAT IS “DEPECHE MODE?”

I’ll take college nostalgia for $500, Alex.

(I’m told that this was from tonight’s episode.)

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