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• Nude Portrait of Canadian Prime Minister Sparks Controversy

  May 22, 2012 at 12:35am

  Okay, so I looked her up and her other portraits are not so horrid. Either she purposefully made this one horrid, or she’s projecting photographs and tracing those on to the canvas in a sort of do-it-yourself paint-by-number way. She seems to have cut and pasted that one and her eye is so bad that she couldn’t even get the proportions right let alone properly connect an arm to a shoulder. She seems to know how to handle the paint, but MFA or not… I don’t believe she can draw worth beans.

• Nude Portrait of Canadian Prime Minister Sparks Controversy

  May 22, 2012 at 12:26am

  Wow, that is is excruciatingly bad ‘art’. I might be impressed if the ‘artist’ were 9 or 10 years old, but… wow. Is she actually making a living as an artist or is she just another bad amateur? Anyone know? Seriously, my 9 year old niece can draw better than that.

• What Turned Filmmaker David Mamet From ‘Brain Dead Liberal’ to Conservative?

  May 9, 2012 at 11:39pm

  In reply to Longslide7.

  Perhaps that particular slip is a sign that Firefly may have been one of the inspirations that lead to his conversion? Anyone whose mine digs up the term “Brown Coats” before “Brown Shirts”, even if used incorrectly, is okay in my book.

• 1-in-10-Million White Buffalo Found Mutilated on Texas Ranch

  May 5, 2012 at 11:23am

  Absolutely despicable! What do you bet that hide is on the way to some rich collector in China or some place like that. Sadly, with the parents both dead too, what are the chances another one will come along any time soon? If one does, the natives will probably have to keep it to themselves. SAD.

• ‘Red Deer Cave’ People May Be New Human Species

  March 15, 2012 at 11:28pm

  In reply to BobtheMoron.

  No, the error is in the artwork. The beard covers up what is different. Look at the picture of the skill; THAT is radically different from a modern human skull. Most monkey skulls look more like a modern human skull than that one. The zigomatic arches (cheek bones) and mandible (lower jaw) are absolutely bizarre. Heck… a dog‘s zigomatic arches look more like ours than this guy’s do.

• ‘Red Deer Cave’ People May Be New Human Species

  March 15, 2012 at 11:06pm

  In reply to rasbo.

  The assumption that Adam and Eve had only three sons comes only from ignorance. The Works of Josephus state that they had, I believe 57 children with Cain, Abel and Seth being the last three.

  That said, people who continue to deny evolution when it can be seen in some species even within our lifetime… need to get their heads out of the sand and find a way to bring their faith in compliance with obvious science, or at least come to terms with what we don’t know. How much of the story of Adam and Eve is metaphor and how much is literal? I don’t know. I believe they were real people and that much of the story is literal. But, really, to fail to accept that the Bible is full of metaphor leaves one in a position where… either their faith is vulnerable, or they must avoid thinking too deeply.

• ‘Journal of Medical Ethics’ Stands by Publication of ‘After-Birth Abortions’ Article

  February 28, 2012 at 10:30pm

  In reply to ColoradoMaverick.

  I suspect that we all know people who think like this, but they (at some level, realizing it’s sick logic) aren’t fools enough to say it aloud.

• ‘Journal of Medical Ethics’ Stands by Publication of ‘After-Birth Abortions’ Article

  February 28, 2012 at 10:26pm

  Yeah, it was the line about it being practiced in the Netherlands that most shook me. (I would have thought China a better example to bring up.) So I looked it up. http://www.chninternational.com/chninfo3.htm

• The ‘Top 5’ Most Loved and Hated States

  February 27, 2012 at 11:56pm

  In reply to sundance_sp.

  I don’t think California can take credit for producing Ronald Reagan, at least not all the credit. I think he was from some small town in Illinois, and I know my grandfather worked with him in radio back in the … 30′s probably, and that would have been in Iowa or Nebraska.

• The ‘Top 5’ Most Loved and Hated States

  February 27, 2012 at 11:53pm

  In reply to kellyfan14.

  Yep, it’s the people who get frustrated with how difficult it is to buy booze.