Potter's Weal

The final results from the Maryland Board of Elections, 

from Rachel Maddow:

now, want to guess why?? (besides the fact that the presidents couldn’t do arithmetic in the first place)??

Fishing on the Creek with your best dog on an early fall morning?

Looking beyond Prince Georges County, there’s a glimmer of good news for political reformers in Anne Arundel County District 6, where River Keeper Chris Trumbauer put together a grassroots campaign of county residents who appear to have unseated the well-liked incumbent, liquor store owner Chuck Ferrar. 

Good news for people who think that a county with a strong nautical tradition and  530 miles of shoreline should be governed by other than developer lawyers and liquor store owners.

Attended another meet-and-greet for Chris Trumbauer in Kingport the other night.

I’m even more impressed than before.

Bottom line for me is that any place that has over 500 MILES of SHORELINE needs to have someone that understands marine and coastal issues on our County Council.

Please . . . .

August 8th:

August 13th!

This photo — used on the 12 July cover of the new Christian Science Monitor magazine — is one of the ugliest pictures (not featuring creatures in distress) I’ve seen, since the Kuwaiti oil field vandalism by Iraq prior to the first Gulf War.

[I was too lazy to try to track down the source photo. . . ]

Got ambition and looked it up !

and here’s the cover treatment

PS — I don’t think we learned squat from the spill. I learned all I need to know about venality and stupidity a long time before BP or AIG or Enron etc etc etc. . . . . .