Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

"Anybody over 5 feet six inches tall is a weed."
that's a quote from some English author, don't remember exactly who. W.H. Auden, maybe.

One of my gigs these days is teaching photography at a high school.
A couple of weeks ago I tried to get a reasonable discussion going (partly for my own education) by making a list of pros & cons for MySpace versus pros & cons for our own class web page.
On the con side for MySpace one kid said ...

Keep the faith, baby.
Tyrants always over-reach themselves eventually.
Techno geeks don't always work for the system. Many of them resent outside intrusion as surely as Kentucky moonshiners hate the revnooers. They'll find ways to hack around Big Bubba. (And a lot of them work for our local Internet ...

I've been saying for years now:
Bush built those North Korean nukes with his big fat mouth,
Clinton had it handled, then Bush came along with scary rhetoric, and away it all went.

Americans are so ignorant, kept so, of international anything, and so convinced of our righteousness (it's what we want ...

It's a real antidote to hear Condi's cousin Connie Rice on the Tavis Smiley show.

Yeah, the intent to exploit peoples' erotic urges for profit is a major criteria on the list of criteria to be used to make the judgement on whether a particular work is pornographic.
Subjectively, for me it is a verb, as in:
"I feel like I've just been porned."

We're more forced into this ...