Speed of Life

“All art has a political stance whether it’s on the surface or boiling underneath.” -Gregg Chadwick, Santa Monica- … https://t.co/Px2mJZJ4Kl pic.twitter.com/nSCiBi0Qr2 — Clark Hulings Fund (@clarkhulingsorg) July 4, 2017

  by Gregg Chadwick Richard Diebenkorn July 58.5" x 53.75" oil on canvas 1957 Private Collection Outside my window, fireworks are streaking across the evening sky. A group of young adults are gathered down below. Lightly boisterous after a day in the sun, checking their phones for the next event. "Don't get too close", they say as they light a small firework in the park across the street. The group runs. The miniature explosive was a dud. Smiles and backslaps as they walk down the street. Further in the distance a dull thump echoes down the way as a firework lifts off - exploding at its apogee. In the rolling Santa Monica fog, the explosion is now a muted glow on the horizon. When I was a kid, my family would drive to the local July 4th events. I remember when I was in High School watching the bicentennial festivities in 1976 from the Marine Corps headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. I gazed across the Potomac towards Washington DC at the F...

Dear @realDonaldTrump - We the People consider your childish video post to be a letter of resignation. #25thAmendmentNow — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) July 2, 2017

This is essentially what Mao Zedong said in China when he attacked elites & started the cultural revolution. How did that work out? https://t.co/ucyhuExXg3 — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 30, 2017 Some of us boycotted the relatively small inauguration of @realDonaldTrump . Just reminding everyone that we were right. https://t.co/qPRP3k9qlp — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 30, 2017

Thank you, Michael Bond. #PaddingtonBear pic.twitter.com/wDVOoReolF — Flavia Fazenda (@FlaviaFazenda) June 28, 2017 Michael Bond at home in 2014. He said of Paddington Bear: ‘He’s never put down or deflated. He has the naivety of a child and the sophistication of an adult.’ Photograph Courtesy: Geoff Pugh/Rex/Shutterstock Much more on Michael Bond and Paddington in The Guardian.

by Gregg Chadwick As the husband of a cancer survivor I ask those who support Trumpcare- "How can you help pass legislation that you know will kill people? Where is your compassion? Where is your humanity?" Yesterday, the American Medical Association released a letter  expressing fierce opposition to the GOP Senate's current proposed healthcare legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act passed during President Obama's first term. The AMA writes,"Medicine has long operated under the precept of Primum non nocere , or “first, do no harm.” The draft legislation violates that standard on many levels." Written in a series of secret closed meetings, the GOP cabal's Better Care Reconciliation Act , or more accurately Trumpcare , is worse than imagined. According to the latest Congressional Budget Office estimations the bill will strip millions of Americans of their health insurance  - increasing the number of people without health insurance by...