On trial in 1971: [caption id="attachment_1797" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="(Canadian Press Photo)"][/caption] Upon his release in 1982 : [caption id="attachment_1798" align="alignwrap" width="600" caption="(Canadian Press Photo by Halifax photographer Albert Lee.)"][/caption] With his mother, Caroline Marshall, following double-lung transplant in 2003: [caption id="attachment_1799" align="alignwrap" width="600" caption="(Canadian Press photo)"][/caption]...

06 August, 2009

New York artist Mairia Kalman gets a jump on American Independence Day with a visit to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father whose brilliant contributions to democracy are honored mostly in the breech. The New York Times published her multimedia account today.  Hat tip: Sarah Cooper-Ellis. If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello...

26 June, 2009

[caption id="attachment_1057" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Steven Bierfeldt: Flush, iPhone-carrying, libertarian security risk"][/caption] Last March,  Steven Bierfeldt, a 25-year-old libertarian who works for US Congressman Ron Paul, tried to board a plane at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, when a security x-ray machine turned up a metal box in his carry-on baggage containing $4700 in cash, proceeds from the sale of tee-shirts and literature at a Ron Paul event the previous day. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials hauled Bierfeldt out of the lineup and detained him for half an hour, demanding to know the source of the (perfectly legal) money, along with a raft of...

20 June, 2009