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All in All, It's Been a Very Bad Week for the World and America What was George W. Bush doing when the Anti Ballistic Missile treaty was being signed back on 26 May 1972? Well, we can make a fair guess. He was just out of Yale and figuring out what to do with his life. At that moment Brezhnev and Nixon signed the treaty it's a bet that George's gaze was flicking between a sports game, a pretty girl and an open refrigerator. He probably didn't take much notice of the events in Moscow, but at some stage he may have grasped the treaty's underlying doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction because there was a certain dreadful simplicity in the idea, which even the juvenile George W. Bush would have found arresting. Thirty years later Bush comes to the White House, with no substantial achievements to his name or experience of international affairs, and announces that the ABM treaty is no longer appropriate to the modern world and the US is going to pursue its dream of a missile defence system. The reaction around the globe to his speech contained a common element and that was indignation that the fragile structures and trust of the nuclear stand-off had been ended by a man with neither the intellect nor humility which this issue requires. Slim Shady and his chainsaw were now in charge of world peace. thanks to wood s lot
Morris Graves, NW native and last of the 'Mystic Painters,' dies at 90 At 90, Graves was the final survivor of a group of four dubbed the "Mystic Painters of the Northwest" in a 1953 Life magazine feature. Along with Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson and Kenneth Callahan, Graves epitomized not necessarily a style of painting but a philosophical outlook that combined Eastern religious beliefs and a deep appreciation of the cycles of the natural world. As a young architecture student in 1963, my world was opened by the discovery of these 4 mystic painters. Sometime in the early 90s I went to a Morris Graves show and was shocked to discover that, not only was Morris Graves still alive, but he was doing his best work. He was painting flower still lifes. Where his early work pushed his eastern philosophy, his later work did not. And by not pushing it, these later paintings became all the more powerful statements of his mysticism.
The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Check out the entire poem by Ferlinghetti. A little page with larger views of these images.
Federal scientists at odds with Bush add fuel to dispute over power
What the national scientists' study found:
What the Bush administration has said: Duh!
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