Sign of the times...cont'd.

Portrait of a Village School Teacher - 1958

I don't care what the sophisticated art expert types say; I like socialist realism as an art form. I like Norman Rockwell too. Oh yeah, I took art history in high school and as an undergrad student too, so it's not like I haven't been exposed to the various genres by experts with Ph.Ds. But most modern art is just crap without any soul, beauty or meaning that I can discover. If you like it fine. But I don't and since I am an expert on what I like, that settles that.

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Bob Dylan is a pretty good painter as well as a poet and musician. Rolling Stone has 13 of his paintings on display here. The theme is Brazil and they are quite good too, IMHO.

Why networks defeat hierarchies - Kevin Carson @ The Center for a Stateless Society

"So if you wonder why the MBAs at corporate seem to be literally unaware of any alternative to the Nardelli/Fiorina/'Chainsaw Al' model of downsizing everybody and giving themselves a bonus, the answer is: they probably are. Their own power has made them stupid."

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The bittersweet retirement of UAW president Ron Gettlefinger - Detroit News
One of the last private sector union giants is on the ropes. It's hard to be a militant unionist when your whole industry is going down the toilet.
SCO loses final appeal; but will they now finally go away? - Ars Technica
Probably not, but we can always hope.
An x-ray version of Picasso's Guernica on display in Rome (via BoingBoing)
Leonard Nimoy says "star trek fans can be scary" - LA Times
I'll bet.
Colton Harris-Moore shuns $50,000 bonus and offer of free legal representation to turn himself in - CBS TV