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Oh, just go with the penguins!

Oh, just go with the penguins!

Marty’s photo of the day #2243: Most mornings I have no idea what I’m going to post until I start opening the photo files on my hard drive. Sometimes I find a photo that inspires me. Sometimes I find a photo that I had completely forgotten I even took. Sometimes I see a previously rejected […]

Stop calling Trump a bird brain!

Stop calling Trump a bird brain!

Marty’s photo of the day #2241: “Now that Donald Trump has tweeted, ‘Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded,’ can we all now agree that calling the man a ‘bird brain’ is a horrible insult to creatures like myself? Now […]

What happened when Trump met Putin?

What happened when Trump met Putin?

The media made a big deal about Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin lasting for 2 hours and 16 minutes, despite being scheduled for only 35 minutes. We may never know what happened behind closed doors. That’s bad. Conversely, no one can prove me wrong, when I guess what happened: Trump: “My handlers say I […]

The Cult of Republicanism

The Cult of Republicanism

A cult is a group of people that shuts out conflicting information and rejects facts in favor of an alternative reality. It’s time to call today’s Republican Party what it is: a cult. The Republican Party hasn’t always been a cult, but you can trace its conversion to one to the late 1980s and the […]

Photo-shy impalas

Photo-shy impalas

Marty’s photo of the day #2236: I saw tons of impala in Zimbabwe, but never did get a good photo of them. It was as if they knew the limitations of my lens and then backed off 20 feet from there. This photo was about as good as it got.

Leaving Iquitos

Leaving Iquitos

Marty’s photo of the day #2234: I took this photo as Deb and I departed Iquitos, Peru to commence a 70 mile-long journey down the Amazon River to a research station. Iquitos has a population of 300,000 people, and there are no roads in or out of the city. The only way to get to […]