a shameful waste of madhouse time

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IMG_0188 2_edit/Musee D’Orsay, originally uploaded by monkeyking.

i thought about taking pictures of the art, like everyone else,
but i think that’s kind of lame. If you’re in a temple of art, the best
thing you can [...]

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Original link here

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Original article about Yellow River here.

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Just saw this on Sina. In the city of Ya’An in Sichuan has “fired” three township level party
secretaries and given serious warnings to several other cadres. This was over irregularities
in how the relief efforts were coordinated and handled; for example, how things were
distributed, the speed and efficiency with the work was done, etc. The article [...]

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The title piqued my interest: a thief in Jiaxing had been living in the area above the ceiling of a hotpot restaurant, in an area that was almost 600 square meters and was also above a fast food restaurant and a noodle shop. Thus if he ever wanted to steal things, he had his pick [...]

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The Ministry of Education in China is getting around to revising its code of ethics of teachers, and this time around they are thinking about including “protecting students,” a move no doubt in part spurred by the memory of teachers protecting students during the Wenchuan earthquake. Some who have argued against such a move say [...]

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pompidou centre, paris, originally uploaded by monkeyking.

The cafe looked really nice, but I didnt even bother checking the prices on the menu because i was pretty sure that I could not afford it. But I [...]

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smoking man in front of Hotel De Ville, originally uploaded by monkeyking.

Picture i took yesterday afternoon

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This French website of ideas and culture has, thankfully, an English section* and in it an essay enttiled “Democratic Universalism as a Historical Problem”. In that I
found the following passage:
Hamilton thus spoke of the �vices of democracy� and criticized its propensity towards excess. The terms �deathly illness,� �confusion,� and �license� were regularly associated with �democracy.� [...]

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Ochlocracy (Greek: ?????????? or okhlokrat�a; Latin: ochlocratia) is government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of constitutional authorities. In English, the word mobocracy is sometimes used as a synonym. As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it’s akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning “the easily moveable crowd,” from which the term [...]

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