AmeriSoc da Vibrant does some Californication

This, as the Bleus Still Get Their Choo Choo to Versailles

AmeriSoc Abandons its Young to the Dust

The march of Socialism has ever arrived at exactly the same Desolation
the fall.

The Alchemy of AmeriSoc: Turning Gold into Dung

After all, as The Prince was assured, it is about Power, not any Good done with that power, but raw,pure, Power, which should be the aim of the Prince.

The Dems have taken this Moral deep into their hearts.

Pepe Likes D'em Ricain Eagles Dead

The Apt Analogy

Obamascurantism on the rise

SIckening.

Dreamsong from Planet Pepe

Le Pew sets out that "radiant future" AmeriSoc will build in this country, and it's just California burning.

A Convergence of the SinoYank Pepeanisms?

Fortuna is Kayla.

Bad Bush Energy Needs a Wise Wand

Phylomaena to the rescue

JJ, Tejas Philosophe

That Texas sun been doin' ya some Wizenin', Boy.

The Ultimate Pyrrhic Victory

Bad bet, Mr. Chef.

Kayla is waiting

Governor Moonbeam rulz on Planet Pepe

Even European courts have rejected the idea that the human right to marry includes the right to same-sex marriage. In 2003, the European Court of Justice ruled, “Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects only traditional marriage between two persons of opposite biological sex.” The European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations Human Rights Committee have issued similar rulings. Ah, not good enough for Pepe, who wallows in a haze of pink champagne on ice.

Birth of the California Cool...

Hey political junkies, check out architectural history in the American West for a second. Here's how the article defines "cool": an emphasis on restraint and detachment.

By that definition, FCP'ers are definitely not Cali "cool." See pic of Lou Reed for California Cool in action.

Lately, thanks to my Mongolian comrade, I've taken in a bit of art history by way of Hermann Broch (at least as he saw the late-19th century Impressionist painters such as van gogh). Broch was hard on Vienna, a sentiment lost on me when I visited the city in the autumn of 2000. Broch's reasons, though, were later understandable.

Another recommend would be Virginia & Lee McAlester, "A Field Guide to American Houses" (Knopf Publishing), where certain architectural trends are itemized and placed, for the reader, in their historical context.

And I recently received "Learning From Las Vegas" (MIT Press) by Yale architect Robert Venturi. As far as I can tell (I've only had time to read the introduction; more this weekend), Venturi swooped into Las Vegas in early '70s with a small team of graduate students, they collected data on Sin City for a couple weeks, and then churned out this book in an effort to guide Vegas (and other architects in any locale) away from, for example, putting huge neon signs atop replicas of the arch de
triumph (or something like that).

And as of late, the city of L.A. is trying to figure out how to best preserve Bukowski's abode.

I haven't had this much architectural history since my Age of Augustus grad seminar a couple years back.

Aahhh, Stanford

California, here I come

Romney led McCain 40 percent to 32 percent in California, where the margin of error was 3.3 percentage points. A win in California, the most populous state, could help puncture McCain's growing momentum in the Republican nomination fight. Nah, says JJ, it's all over, just roll over, Mitt.

Your tax $ at work chez Panisse

— $975,000 for the University of California at Berkeley, for the Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which may include establishing an endowment, and for cataloguing the papers of Congressman Robert Matsui.
— $750,000 for the Berkeley/Albana ferry service.
— $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, for a school lunch initiative to integrate lessons about wellness, sustainability and nutrition into the academic curriculum.

JJ's favorite Birkenstocker

In a Burkean mood, Alan Alda will wax poetic on the mysteries of Math.

Surfer Einstein

More at wiki.

Dianne Feinstein's Bush

Wow, I thought a photo such as this was about as likely as a photo of Pepe and AA walking hand-in-hand down Bourbon Street.