(Author’s Note: The following is a working draft.)

Preface

“The beginning is the most important part of the work” Plato

I submit for the purposes of this article that the founding of the Americas was accomplished by those immigrants who walked across the then/… Read full post »

Call me Libby.  Like many before me, I am an immigrant.  Conceived in France, I am the offspring of an artist who named me after the Roman goddess of Liberty, but I prefer my less formal and more Americanized name of Libby.  I first came to America through the great portal… Read full post »

Murder by any other name…

Murder is the act of putting a person to death, intentionally and unlawfully with malice of aforethought.  Murder is the world’s oldest form of conflict resolution, and despite the advances in all aspects of the human condition since the earliest hominids w… Read full post »

Dear President Obama:

It is my most fervent hope that you will not only prayerfully reflect upon the following recommendation, but that you will act upon it by speaking to the American people in a prime time speech from the Oval Office well before the upcoming mid-term elections.

See this recommended… Read full post »

Remembering 9/11 in art, prose and poetry

Preface:

Perspective

America Responds

For nearly eight years, my uncle worked as one of the primary heavy equipment operators during the construction of the World Trade Center.  One morning, a cousin left for work, and at the same time, a… Read full post »

In forging the Constitution, the founding fathers left out the most obvious and most seminal inalienable right of our great Republic's defining document; namely, the right to consume – conspicuously!  As Americans, we define ourselves in many ways, but the most universal metrics are:… Read full post »

 I am about to relate a first-hand account of inappropriate sexual contact by a Roman Catholic priest.  The two incidents involved me personally and the same priest.  Now, before you continue on in the hope of reading some salacious or lurid tale, you should stop here because what I am… Read full post »

Our government is long overdue to stop its’ almost illogical and biased support of Israel.  Yes, we have a moral obligation as one of the world’s superpowers to protect the inalienable rights of all for peace and security, but as a nation, we consistently come down on the side of Isr… Read full post »

 Dear President Obama,

I listened attentively to your recent press conference regarding the oil crisis.  In particular, I keep hearing your words resonate in my mind that on the very first day of the crisis, you convened a high level meeting in the Oval Office.  In God’s name, wh… Read full post »

 

September 11, 2001:

Changed the World

From the September 11th Series

An iconic image of the unprovoked and cowardly attacks on the Unites State of America on September 11, 2001.  This was the first image I created almost immediately after the horrific events of September 1… Read full post »

In the not too distant future with the world’s human population exceeding 12 billion, a planet ravaged by the effects of global warming, arable land, clean drinking water, natural resources have all been severely diminished as the labor-force suffers from chronic under-emplo… Read full post »

Inspired by the whore of Babylon in the Book of Revelation (17:3–4), Albrecht Dürer’s 1498 woodcut, The Whore of Babylon and, William Blake’s 1809 pen and watercolour over pencil, The Whore of Babylon, Pablo Picasso’s 1937 canvas Guernica, my The Whore of Ba… Read full post »

What would Jesus do?

Are you as outraged as I am about the never ending revelations of priests and religious sexually molesting children over many decades and continuing today? 

Well, here is a sickening update, the Roman Catholic Church  feels that they were following the correct procedures… Read full post »