August 2011 – Steve Brodner

KILL KEYSTONE

September 1, 2011August 30, 2011 by Steve

Today’s art by Alex Fine: Fashion Police? Dr. James Hansen, of Columbia, Goddard and NASA, arrested Monday at the protest. LATEST: OVER 700 ARRESTS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. UPDATES HERE. Here’s what I think is a great art mosh, some artists creating our own anti-pipeline protest here online. Artists Paul Rogers … Read more

ROME SKETCHBOOK

August 29, 2011 by Steve

A few weeks ago Cynthia and I had the chance to visit Rome. Here are some pages from the sketchbook.

On the train from Leonardo daVinci Airport at about 7 AM a lady shows it’s never too early in the day to moisturize. Her husband read the paper.

Gorilla My Dreams

August 29, 2011 by Steve

For David Denby’s review in this week’s New Yorker. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where the chimps go ape over James Franco’s experimental work on Alzheimers and wind up trashing San Francisco like Tea Partiers in DC. Freida Pinto needs a minute to process this.

SHOW ME YOUR EVIDENCE!!!!!

August 19, 2011 by Steve

The SEC is supposed to be the cops of Wall St. Since the huge Meltdown of 2008 there have been no successful prosecutions of the CEOs who got us to where we are. And now we see what has happened to the evidence. According to Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone, the SEC has … Read more

THE ORACLE OF OMAHA

August 17, 2011 by Steve

The other day billionaire Warren Buffett put the screws to the GOP orthodoxy and said, plainly, in the NY Times, that he and his fellow billionaires should, by rights, share in the sacrifice especially in a time of trouble. He reported knowing not one colleague not investing because of higher taxes. In other words, the … Read more