Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Oddities
I am enough of a cockeyed optimist to think that in many important ways humanity is getting better all the time (I'll write about it one of these days). On the other hand, it's hard not to feel as if the world is a bit tilted on its axis at the moment. Some examples here.
•NASA launched a space shuttle despite some of the heat shields being faulty; they have "backup" plans; am I nuts or is that nuts?
•a mother hosted (hosted!?) sex parties for her children (read)
•there's going to be a face transplant (read) (face?) which will be blessedly merciful for some people but the edge of new excitement for the botox party crowd
•Bill Clinton, he of high morals, is now a golf-playing missionary (read)
•tatooed, adolescent acting-out Angelina Jolie is a good and kind woman
•soccer superstar Beckham accused a Japanese player of spitting on him, causing an international broohaha (read) . . . then again, soccer nuttiness is kind of normal, right?
•the prestigious Leopold Museum in Vienna invited people to view an exhibit entitled "The Naked Truth," a new exhibition of early 1900s erotic art in "just a swimsuit _ or nothing at all" and many in fact showed up stark naked; while JMBM thinks the human body is nifty even when imperfect, this seems downright 21st century and certainly right up there in the flagpole-sitting and telephone-booth cramming category
Labels: headlines, reflections
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