Willy Loman

Seem to be having strange xmas memories this year. Might be the drugs. This over the counter stuff seems to have all sorts of side affects. One such affected xmas memory involved selling greeting cards for the Rust Craft greeting card company. They gave me Eastern Ontario as a territory and a six month old,1972 Gran Torino, 2-door, hard top, as my company car.  The Torino had no ass end and probably the worst car you could choose for winter driving, along the eastern end of the 401, which was posted at 75 miles an hour in some stretches back then. Other than the time I tipped it in a snow bank outside of Napanee, it was awesome to drive.I listened to the Canada-Russia series in that car. We are getting closer to the xmas part. Rust Craft was basically a printing company that licensed artwork from Rust Craft UK and sold the resulting greeting cards to department stores and every mom and pop, general store, in every small, Canadian town, which is what my territory

The victor is the American spirit. The spirit of a society that cheered the killing, harming and displacement of a million people in a country that they falsely and knowingly labelled as evil. A society that condones the continuing indiscriminateness of drone attacks on populated areas, killing hundreds of innocent women and children in its name. A country where a kindergarden teacher owns an arsenal of automatic weapons. Yes, the American spirit that planned for the new American century. The bring it on, we're number one, mission accomplished, you're doing a good job Brownie, God bless fucking America spirit was the victor yesterday. The USA, USA, USA, that issues carry permits in forty nine of fifty states was the victor yesterday. The spoils were the lives of its innocent children. If you were an alien that arrived from another planet or for that matter someone living in the middle east under the shadow of drones and you read the two stories about the

Apparently Steve of all things Harper, has a  Harper's Photo of the Day  site, that was started January 2010. President Obama's team started the  White House Photo of the Day site on January 9, 2009 while he was still President elect. Sadly, one of the worst cases of Presidential Photo envy , that I have witnessed.