The yard is ...

A mass of spring beauty (Claytonia virginica):

Paul Krugman ...

MAKES a compelling argument for investigating both torture and the "march to war" and, where appropriate, prosecutions of those held accountable. (I've wondered, ever since the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, why Republicans in particular think we're a better country when we act with the same immoral and venal lawlessness as our adversaries.)

A not-so-recent monotype ...

"spring mist" (image 18" by 22")

Here's something ...

FOR the local school board — and it's tax-hating critics. As my late father-in-law would say when his daughters would complain about school, "Well, let's just stay home and be ignorant." Maybe that's what too many parts of the country has been doing?

Spring's a-bloomin' ...

This is ...

A great line from Frank Rich's Sunday column: "It is justice, not a storm, that is gathering." I so hope he is right.

WE hunger for the natural, writes Paul Bloom in the New York Times Magazine.

DO we suppose that the folks who held "tea-bag parties" in Quincy and Hannibal knew what they were actually doing?