Mahatma Gandhi’s “Seven Deadly Sins” sound more like the Mission Statement for the leaders of the transnational corporations that dominate our society!
1. Wealth Without Work
2. Pleasure Without Conscience
3. Knowledge Without Character
4. Commerce Without Morality
5. Science Without Humanity
6. Religion Without Sacrifice
7. Politics Without Principle
Maybe I’ve just not been paying attention, but in this age of micro-blogging, I’m surprised that Paul Klee’s 1922 The Twittering Machine hasn’t gotten more play.
No, that’s not a green grocer chanting… that’s friend of the blog MK, in an earlier incarnation as high school TV production teacher. This photo’s for him:
(For the record, that’s a billboard takeover in the UK by mob ster.)
Yeah, I saw it on The Daily What. Didn’t you?
File this one under “E” for “EPIC WIN”! Cameron Booth created this idealized map of the United States Interstate Highway System, after the style of H. C. Beck’s original London Underground maps.
uh, cool.
so can i, like, print it out on something…
like maybe,
a real wall?
“Expresso, Excetera!”
I can’t decide if I like either of these…
Makes me wonder what that dusty old Supreme Court ruling, Loving v Virginia, really means:
Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State’s citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
Could the voters of Virginia have voted in 1968 to amend their state constitution, to reinstate their ban on interracial marriage?
For those of you who can’t be here to share it in person, this was the view from the top of the tower in Mt. Auburn Cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
