Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . The 60’s . In the summer of 1966 I moved to Washington, DC, to take a job I’d been offered at the Smithsonian Institution as a biological illustrator. I’d been making detailed paintings and pen and ink drawings of insects, birds, and animals since grade school. I … Read more
Text by Katie Kerl, Copyright 2020 . Thriving Through Anarchy . October 1st, 2020. I have been in Corona Virus lockdown since March 16th. Although, our government only shut down selected states as a deadly airborne virus plagued our nation. To this day with nothing changed only isolation ended, we are willingly or forcibly … Read more
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 … 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 … 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 … Read more