ecstaticist

Check out my friend Jason Swain’s new online fine art photography gallery. He is an excellent shooter and post processor.

I will be converting this blog into a photoblog in the near future. My miscellaneous ramblings will still be here, but relegated to a secondary role. Probably better for everyone that way Anyhow, watch for the launch of the Ecstatic Imaging blog soon!

Obama’s first major gaffe…it is true, but it certainly doesn’t help him. Unless, of course, he’s looking for a way to explain his upcoming loss in Penn. in advance.

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

It is the second paragraph, spoken to an audience in San Francisco, that will get him into trouble. He just lost a lot of voters who might have been inching toward him in the poor, white underclass…