winter?

northern hemisphere

day after Christmas

air-conditioner kicked in

mighty weird

Pensée du jour

While reading today about the Lyon Biennial I ran into the sentence: As Robert Smithson succinctly put it in 1973: 'The opposite of waste is luxury.  Both waste and luxury tend to be useless.'  My thought of the day, which is certainly not very original, is that art is luxury and, succinctly put, it too tends to be useless.

Next jour addendum: As the wife of the Ranting Economist I should know that the word "use" (unqualified) is itself rather useless....

the thought continues

…In a culture where women are impotent, it is actually possible to imagine why they would turn to violence condoned within that culture if it means that they can finally make individual decisions and take personal action.  If killing the infidel is the only non-subservient act afforded to women in said culture, it is not hard to see how the choice might make sense…  

Twisted but imaginable.

thought running through my mind since yesterday

In what kind of a petri dish does a doctrine emerge that successfully encourages a mother to abandon her newborn baby in order to die as she kills and maims?  What kind of doctrine, while proclaiming its superiority, condones an attack on a center where the most vulnerable in society go to feel safe?  No amount of western humanist relativism and spouting off of “difference” can possibly accept such a doctrine as valid.  

Welcome to the Middle Ages with modern weaponry and the complicating factor of western belief in the sanctity of life (or something like it, most of the time)....

thought of the day

... the price of your second amendment,

 the benefits of which I have yet to figure out, 

is this shit...