Cassius Marcellus Coolidge

If I could paint and if I could see color I would aspire to paint like Cassius Marcellus Coolidge  did. I really enjoy his work.

This is a detail from a painting he did of a Friday night at Meadehouse. Words fail me.

Others have tried to copy him. Tried to be contemporary. They can never approach his genius.

Those are my dogs goofing off on a quiet Sunday Night.

I am grateful for all I have.

Thomas Hart Benton

If I could paint and if I could see color I would aspire to paint like Thomas Hart Benton did. I really enjoy his work.

This is a detail from a painting he did of his son and his son's dog Jake. Words fail me.

But lacking any literary or artistic ability I take pictures of my dogs:

Those are my dogs being goofballs in the grapevine.

I am grateful for all I have.

"I will not be used to send Suge Knight to prison"

"Witness balks on stand in murder case again rap mogul Suge Knight"

Cle "Boan" Sloan, one of two men Knight is accused of deliberately running over in his pickup truck at a hamburger stand in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, took the witness stand at a preliminary hearing in the case.

Prosecutors say it was with Sloan whom Knight traded punches through the window of his vehicle before putting the truck into reverse, knocking Sloan and another man, Terry Carter, to the ground, and then pulling forward to run over both men.

Carter, 55, later died. Sloan, 51, suffered a badly mangled left foot and head injuries.

Knight, 49, is charged with murder, attempted murder and two counts of felony hit-and-run in the Jan. 29 fracas, which followed an argument on the set of a commercial for the film "Straight Outta Compton."

Asked by Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Barnes if he could identify Knight as she pointed to him in the courtroom, Sloan said, "That doesn't look like Mr. Knight."

Wearing an orange jail uniform and handcuffs for Monday's proceeding, Knight appeared slightly thinner since his last court hearing, with a touch of gray in his beard.

Glenn Greenwald will testify before Congress

via video-link with American Civil Liberties Union and the Cato Institute.

This testimony or hearing or whatever is organized by the same coalition that tried to pass an amendment to reign in the scope of NSA surveillance, and failed.

There have already been hearings about this. Mediate notes one the hearings Congress organized on the NSA programs last June was titled "How Disclosed NSA Programs Protect Americans, and Why Disclosure Aids Our Adversaries."

Another Congressional hearing was titled "How NSA Surveillance Lead to Healthier Gums and Brighter Teeth and Disclosure Advances Fowl Breath."

So they thought maybe we had just get our licks in.

It will be interesting to see what Glenn Grenwald says.

Josh Feldman Mediaite.