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Entries Tagged as 'American'

Did You Ride Your Bike Today?

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Editorial, Images, Politics and Social Issues

Our unbridled thirst for oil made this disaster all but inevitable. When will we realize that we are petroleum addicts?

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Thank You For Your Service

November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Editorial, Politics and Social Issues, photography

In 1968, at the age of 18, I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Four years later I was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. I did not serve in combat but I did serve overseas. I am proud to have been a Marine.
Occasionally I meet people who, upon learning I was a [...]

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Mutterings and Musings

August 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics and Social Issues

I frequent a coffee shop near the Michigan state capitol. Each day some mix of legislators, lawyers, lobbyists, law students, and state workers gather here.
As I sit reading and drinking coffee, I overhear some of their conversation. Puffery, earnest pleading, non-committal blather, misdirection, misperception, lies and the occasional truth—I hear it all. This is the [...]

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Lit by the Sun

January 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Shaw’s Diner
As the sun rose I found much to photograph, anything that stood up so the light would strike it—an almost audible clamor—at sunrise—houses, barns, fences and telephone poles, clusters of trees and dwellings, and like a sail at sea the occasional gleam of a grain elevator. I saw it but did not fully sense that [...]

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