Friday, December 17, 2004

Make Your Own Joke Here Found via slapnose who found it somewhere here. 9:02:36 PM     |

Guernica Some of the best works of art, be they visual, written, musical, or whatever, contain a message, and those works of art forcefully convey that message in a way you can never forget. Forcefully doesn't mean loud.  Doesn't mean profane.  Doesn't mean controversial.  It just means a message wrapped up in raw emotion transfered from inside the artist into whoever makes the effort to receive it. Picasso's painting Guernica is one of the best examples I can think of when it comes to a forceful message (in this case, the horrors of war) delivered in an unforgetable image.  Capturing the mass murder of a small Spanish village almost seventy years ago by the Nazis, Guernica is still a disturbing reminder of man's inhumanity to man. All that said, one of the "characters" of Guernica has been digitaized and realized in a 3-D animation of not only Guernica, but other famous works of modern art.  From Van Gogh to Dali to Escher,  Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz's short film called Guernica will at the very least take your mind and twist it around a bit. Good art does that, too. 6:22:39 PM     |

Medals Of Dishonor Ken Bode writes a pretty damning editorial about how the Pentagon and Bush are handling the war in Iraq.  Included in the piece is this about Bush awarding Presidential Medals of Freedom to three of the most prominent proponents of the war: President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to three of the central architects of the Iraq war. One went to retired CIA Director George "Slam Dunk" Tenet, who tried but failed to produce intelligence proving that Saddam had WMD, and produced very little about al-Qaida before 9/11. Another went to Gen. Tommy Franks, who planned for the invasion but failed to plan at all for any insurgency. Then Franks took early retirement while his war was still going on. What general does that? The final medal was awarded to L. Paul Bremer, who helped feed the insurgency by disbanding the entire Iraqi army, thereby creating hundreds of thousands of armed, unemployed troops who hated the U.S. Well done! But wait, if these folks "earned" Medals of Freedom based upon those credentials, shouldn't Saddam at least get a medal for hosting the shindig? 5:26:54 PM     |

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