Four analog/digital drawings by Jack Brummet

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George W. Bush goes out with a bang at his last G-8 Summit

Somehow we missed this when it happened -- At his last G-8 summit in 2008, President George W. Bush's delivered a jaw-dropping farewell to two other leaders.  "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter," he said to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, punching the air and grinning widely. The two leaders looked on, stunned and in shock.

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Independence Day: Shucking the Devil British Overlords, and celebrating with Fireworks and Firewater

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I hope some of my British friends can explain this curious dessert from England that I saw in my local grocery store this week. I suspect it has appeared in some Monty Python and Benny Hill bits at some time or other...

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Random photos from our trip to the Methow

click to enlarge - my latest niece, Olivia Jane Sanchez

Olivia's brother Otis Valentino - click to enlarge

Cowboy sculpture in downtown Winthrop - click to enlarge

Cool water rolling around a rocky sandbar in the Methow River - click to enlarge

Taxidermy lined up atop the feeezer cases at the Twisp Grocery Store - click to enlarge

More taxidermy at the Twisp Grocery Store - click to enlarge

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Dean Ericksen with Old Glory

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Throwing The Bums Out Does Not Mean Replacing Them With Teabaggers

by Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor

As we vote in the mid-terms, or to fill Congressional replacement seats left by the deceased, those politicians caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man, and the recently indicted or convicted, we need to remember that throwing the bums out, while often an excellent idea, is less of a good idea when you replace them with one issue bozos, tea-party cranks, and charlatans and mountebanks masquerading as reformers and agents of change.

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digital art: The River

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Poem: But You Can't

But You Can’t
by Jack Brummet

You can withdraw it
Marginalize it
Forget it

Hide it
Lie about it
Or deny it three times before the cock crows.

You can snigger about it
Weep about it
Shout about it

Hide it under a bush (oh no)
Sing the blues about it
Or sweep it under the rug.

You can get an ulcer over it
Jump off the Aurora Bridge over it
Lose your family over it

Lose your shorts over it
Lose your mind over it
Or pretend it never happened.

You can dream about it
Run away from it
Rationalize it

Psychoanalyze it
Or drink it away
But you can't take back love.
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Notions, potions, and lotions

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Faces 102: Stories

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Jack Brummet Drawing: Faces No. 86 - The Grand Jury

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