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Murder Scene Photographs-# 15 Triple murders are newsworthy in 2006 even in say, New York City or Los Angeles. This was a small-town city in...

Art and the Murder Case Photograph Series, Take Two* We make one addition to our definition of art. Art must be an artifact, it must be the ...

Tony Blair to Resign The British Prime Minister had announced last year that he would not seek another term so today's announcement was ...

Killer Ice! Killer Ice! FIRST there were flatulent bovines, THEN there was the leaking Amazon, NOW (dramatic pause with Al Gore screaming in...

Murder Case Photographs-#14, Then and Now There was a little dyslexia around here in 1956 even among the most elite businessmen. Apparently...

Today's announcement of the major oil find in the Gulf of Mexico was at the top of all of the news in all of the media outlets, most im...

Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin Was Killed Today ...when he unknowlingly snorkled over and cornered a "bull" stingray whi...

Murder Case Photographs- #13 "Sally's Do Drop Inn." "Do Drop"-"Dew Drop," get it? The "Do Drop Inn...

CNN: "New GOP Buzzword: Fascism" There has been a change in official language in describing la cosa nostra with Islam. As was post...

Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation. In one of The Teaching Company's philosophy tapes on Emmanuel Kant the lecturer says tha...

The Word Museum ...is a book of extinct words. Its author is Jeffrey Kacirk, who should win the Pulitzer Prize. I at least never knew that t...

  Michael Chow's house, profiled in the current issue of Vogue is one of the greatest private residences ever built. The "indoor co...

Murder Case Photographs- #12 "Only 508 days to go till retirement."

Murder Case Photographs- #11 This poor soul. One never gets too jaded not to feel sorrow at seeing a photograph of a murdered person. Ahh, m...

Djibouti Beckons* "Area: 23,200 sq km Population: 721,000 Life expectancy [special boxed section; they want you to know this] : men 51 ...

An Islamic Attack on August 22? That's the question that Bernard Lewis, dean of scholars on Islam, asks us to think about and prepare fo...

Murder Case Photographs: #9 1953 The live lineup is the standard, and fairest, way of ensuring an accurate identification of a subject by a ...

Murder Case Photographs: #8 1958 I remember this case. The Clerk's file contained a confession, I remember. It was the murder of a gay y...

Murder Case Photographs: #7 1953 Some of the photographs here were chosen because of their personification of one of the human characteristi...

Murder Case Photographs: #6 1955 Dodge City in the 1880's? Some other frontier town? Sort of. This city has always been on the edge and ...

President Bush on "Islamic Fascists." The change in rhetoric noted here in English Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech in Los A...

Art and the "Murder Case Photographs" Series The prevailing definition of art is based on the artist's intent. If (s)he int...

Murder Case Photographs: #5 1958 How'd you like to be married to this woman? Her husband didn't either. And vice-versa. He abused he...

Murder Case Photographs #4 1953 "Legal identification" of the victim is an element of the crime of murder. It must be proven at tr...

Murder Case Photographs: #4 (Close-up)

Tony Blair's Speech in Los Angeles British Prime Minister Blair was clear in defining the dichotomy that exists in the world today. It i...

Murder Case Photographs: #3 1959. Where's the dead guy? OOOhhh, that smart detective points us the right way. Otherwise we'd never h...

Murder Case Photographs: #2 1955. Black and white, dark and light, violence and safety. All the usual dichotomy suspects are present here. N...

Murder Case Photographs: #1 1957 A few years ago the state Supreme Court ordered that a shift worn by a rape victim and introduced int...