Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Jargon Overload . George Orwell wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” To which I’ll add my own statement. ‘Nowhere in the US Constitution is there a right to not be offended.’ One of my … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Culture War? . “A culture war is something only the other side fights. The side you are on is only talking sense.” — Robert Shrimsley Are we really in the middle of a culture war in the USA, and much of the rest of the world, right now? … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Civil War-Part Two . As I write in September of the end of the second decade of the Twenty-first Century, there is much talk in the media of a second civil war. How this will turn out is anybody’s guess right now, but if the unrest descends into war, … Read more
Text by Pat Breslin, Copyright 2020 Inside The Partisan Brain . Difference of Opinion Coke versus Pepsi. Ford versus Chevy. Conservative versus Liberal. The first set of choices matters little in the grand scheme of things except for those who manufacture, market, sell, and drink carbonated beverages. The second set of choices is more … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 Learning to See and Equipment Meditations . Many people, when they get into photography, become “equipment freaks,”. buying lens after lens in a quest for better photographs. I know, I was one myself. Those people keep the camera companies in business. I didn’t understand that … Read more