Month: June 2005

  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Body Counts

    The body count our government doesn’t want us to remember I started to laugh today at David Brooks’s piece in the NY Times. But then the feeling turned more to nausea. According to Brooks, we shouldn’t run our Iraq policy based on polls that say most Americans think we should pull out. I couldn’t agree…

  • Laax, Switzerland

    Jeff Wechter writes: These pictures were taken in Switzerland on March 10, 2005. The Crap Bar was at a ski area called Laax. Crap was everywhere. www.laax.com. The other was taken in a small town near Flims called Sogogn. Author(s) and Location: Jeff Wechter

  • Gathered Here

    Your mission this coming Saturday afternoon: without upstaging the happy couple. It behooves you to be both fashionable and appropriate, because the mother of the bride might cast you a disapproving glance if you are anything less. So grab your pastel neckties, dust off some chic but not overly sexy footwear, and wiggle into those strapless gowns. Provided…

  • Dead Sea, Israel

    Two pictures were taken at sea level on the decent to the Dead Sea in Israel. We thought it appropriate to read about conservative politics in The Rake while visiting the places where it all started. The other pictures are at the River Jordan where John the Baptist did his work. Note in particular the…

  • Mailly de Chateau, France

    Took the Rake to France with me, just for giggles. Spent a week on the Yonne Canal floating on a barge with two other couples, drinking cases of cremant, (the local name for champagne) and speaking French very poorly. This photo was taken from a 16th Century bridge in a town called Mailly de Chateau.…

  • Pacific Northwest by Midwest

    One hundred and fifty years ago, when a Methodist pastor stumbled into what became Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, he thought he’d found the Garden of Eden. Dotted with apple trees and surrounded by lush green bluffs, no other place, he argued, conformed so closely to the biblical description of Eden. Even now, despite upstream polluters that…