The Power of Cheese Compels You

Chickadee and Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch and Tufted Titmouse

The Power of Cheese Compels You

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Cacapon Mountain Streetscape

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 265 is Streetscapes. Carmi mentions an urban environment, but right now my local streets are in the woods. Here's a picture of a box turtle that Theda and I ran across on a rainy walk down the road outside the house.

These next few pictures are of deer I've seen well driving back to the house the last couple of days.



This picture doesn't qualify as streetscape. Would you believe a porchscape?

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Extraordinary Naivety and Arrogance

The Guardian has shown "extraordinary naivety and arrogance" over the publication of articles based on NSA documents leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, the former foreign secretary Jack Straw has said.

I'm not suggesting for a moment anybody in the Guardian gratuitously wants to risk anybody's life. But what I do think is that their sense of power of having these secrets and excitement – almost adolescent excitement – about these secrets has gone to their head.

"They're blinding themselves about the consequence and also showing an extraordinary naivety and arrogance in implying that they are in a position to judge whether or not particular secrets which they have published are not likely to damage the national interest, and they're not in any position at all to do that.

Extraordinary naivety and arrogance? You don't say, Jack.


P.S. For no particular reason, here's Lindsey and Miley.

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