The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Boss Man is seriously peeved by this picture. There are others he seems to find equally offensive.

The fuss? The first one is his wife, who's the principal of this brand new school. He feels like the pictures don't represent what this is all about, and that the picture on the front page of the newspaper should have been of the building itself, with the busses in front and kids going in. He didn't buy my argument that pictures of school buildings are boring, and that these pictures were semi-interesting.

I like taking interesting pictures, ones that even if you're unfamiliar with the people in them are interesting to look at. I don't always (or even often) succeed, but I do try. Boss Man takes pictures for documentation, to record hard-and-fast facts, figures, and situations. I get the impression that he doesn't take many people pictures.

There's more I want to say on this, but I can't quite find the right words to use. It is a lack of imagination, or just a different sort of mind set? I can't figure him out.

The Political Compass is quite the interesting site. I stood...much where anyone who's paid much attention would imagine I stood, quite firmly in the dead center of the lower left quadrant:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

Where do you stand?

[EDIT] *snickers uncontrollably* If you look at the graph with major world leaders plotted on it at the end, I'm almost the dead opposite of Dubbya. I'm slightly farther down the anarcho scale than Ghandi, about where the Dalai Lama is. Except I'm slightly left of him as well. Oh, how things change in just a few short years. I thought people were supposed to get more conservative as they got older, not less.

[EDIT2] I really am interested in knowing where everyone stands on this. If you're uncomfortable sharing I'm at peace with that, or if you want to keep it private my email address is an open secret. I'm just really fascinated by this while concept.

I think I ended up farther left that I would have anticipated, because I tend to err on the liberal side of "none of your damn business" on issues where I waffle a bit.

"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."

"What law says they don't have to?"

"Catch-22"

[EDIT] The slow burn continues:

"The Department of Justice has asked the Government Printing Office "to instruct depository libraries to destroy" five publications the department has deemed "not appropriate for external use." Of the five publications, two are texts of federal laws.

They are to be removed from libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library, according to the American Library Association. All the documents concern either federal civil or criminal forfeiture procedure, including how to reclaim items that have been confiscated by the government during an investigation.

I don't know how you feel about living in a country where the citizens are not allowed to read the law, but I find it . . . surprising. "

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