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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

— Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964

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See more of Dave's photography in Dave's Photo Pages.

Schuler Funeral
Schuler funeral
Jefferson Invitational
Ovation	WestSide Delegation
Photos of Jefferson Show Choirs and the Schuler funeral are now online at Fotki.com Please download them free of charge or order prints. (Dave receives no profit from print orders)

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Picture of Dave Welcome to Dave's Place. Dave's Place is a personal web site covering a variety of topics that I find interesting.

Dave's Place is now built on WebLogic Portal technolology from BEA Systems using their free scale-limited license. This site is hosted at GoDaddy.com on a Linux Virtual Dedicated Server.

View Dave's presentations on digital photography.

Color Management
Digital Photography for Beginners
Histograms
Panoramas

The DaVinci Code

Dave's Book Reviews

The DaVinci Code

by Dan Brown

I am not in the habit of writing reviews of fiction. (Don't be alarmed, I know that The DaVinci Code is a work of fiction.) The only other fiction review on the site is Hugo's classic Les Miserables. The DaVinci Code has become such a cultural phenomenon that I felt it deserved a review.

The DaVinci Code is a church-conspiracy-thriller that builds on the thesis developed in Holy Blood Holy Grail . The idea is that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child. The apostles out of jealousy, wrote Mary largely out of the Gospel record. The grail then is not a cup but the offspring of Mary and Jesus and the bloodline is traced to modern times through the Merovingian Kings of France.

The book if taken as fact is blasphemous but Brown is a compelling writer, I could hardly put it down.

Continue reading Dave's review of The DaVinci Code

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