Today's New York Times—
"…there were fresh questions about whether the intelligence overhaul that created the post of national intelligence director was fatally flawed, and whether Mr. Obama would move gradually to further weaken the authorities granted to the director and give additional power to individual spy agencies like the . Mr. Blair and each of his predecessors have lamented openly that the intelligence director does not have enough power to deliver the intended shock therapy to America’s byzantine spying apparatus." |
Catch-22 in Doonesbury today—
From Log24 on Jan. 5, 2010—
Artifice of Eternity—
A Medal
In memory of Byzantine scholar Ihor Sevcenko,
who died at 87 on St. Stephen's Day, 2009–
Thie above image results from a Byzantine
meditation based on a detail in the previous post—
"This might be a good time to
call it a day." –Today's Doonesbury
"TOMORROW ALWAYS BELONGS TO US"
Title of an exhibition by young Nordic artists
in Sweden during the summer of 2008.
The exhibition included, notably, Josefine Lyche.