La Guernica

broderic on August 7, 2008

This is interesting, too. On this day, besides Hiroshima, the Spanish town of Guernica was devastated by German bombs. It’s another sad memory for mankind.

Hanging in the Rénia Sofia is Picasso’s La Guernica painted in response to the tragedy of that day. It’s perhaps the most visited painting in that museum.

When we visited last year (it’s been almost year?), there were crowds around it. The scene reminded me of seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. People were intensely studying it and contemplating the horrors of the day. They say it’s one of the more humanistic of paintings. You see it and you wonder how we could do such a thing. Man can be so unkind to his fellows.

It’ll be an everlasting testament to evil.

In Hiroshima, there still exists burnt out shell of the Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall. It signifies our yearning for peace. Can’t we all just get along?

Link of the Day [8.06.08]

broderic on August 6, 2008

At 8:15 AM sixty-three years ago, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. In an instant, 140,000 people were killed, and the fate of the world was changed. Who knows if the war in the Pacific could’ve been won without the bomb? Who knows what we had unleashed? It is a legacy that remains with us to this day. Should we have been the ones to use it? If not us, would they have used on us or our allies?

http://www.gensuikin.org/english/photo.html

Quote of the Day [8.06.08]

broderic on August 6, 2008

“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”

Sen Barack Obama (D-Illinois) describing the GOP on their ridiculing of his “properly inflated tires” tip

Link of the Day [8.05.08]

broderic on August 5, 2008

Stopped by the grocery store this morning to get some lunch. I had decided on instant ramen because I’m in the mood. Did you know that ramen is such a big thing in Japan that they have a museum dedicated to it? I wonder if the US has a hot dog museum? And where it is so that I can visit it.

http://www.bento.com/phgal3.html

Bringing the stupid

broderic on August 4, 2008

I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, the Republican party is too stupid to run the government. They are critiizing Obama over telling people that properly inflated tires and well tuned automobiles can help you save on gas. I wonder if Republicans are going to start driving down the road on four flat tires. What a bunch of dopes!

This idea of properly inflated tires is so controversial that tire and car manufactures, not to mention AAA, suggest that it is a good thing to keep them properly inflated. How fucking stupid are these morons!?