Not that there's really any place to go - most businesses and the federal government are closed today.

Paul Ryan And His Irish Amnesia

A great debate raged in London: Would it be wrong to feed the starving Irish with free food, thereby setting up a "culture of dependency"? Certainly England's man in charge of easing the famine, Sir Charles Trevelyan, thought so. "Dependence on charity," he declared, "is not to be made an agreeable mode of life."

And there I ran into Paul Ryan. His great-great-grandfather had fled to America. But the Republican congressman was very much in evidence, wagging his finger at the famished. His oft-stated "culture of dependency" is a safety net that becomes a lazy-day hammock. But it was also England's excuse for lethal negligence.
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The Irish historian John Kelly, who wrote a book on the great famine, was the first to pick up on these echoes of the past during the 2012 presidential campaign. "Ryan's high-profile economic philosophy," he wrote then, "is the very same one that hurt, not helped, his forebears during the famine -- and hurt them badly."
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What infuriated Mitchel was that the Irish were starving to death at the very time that rich stores of grain and fat livestock owned by absentee landlords were being shipped out of the country. The food was produced by Irish hands on Irish lands but would not go into Irish mouths, for fear that such "charity" would upset the free market, and make people lazy.
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You can't make these kinds of heartless remarks unless you think the poor deserve their fate -- that they have a character flaw, born of public assistance. And there hovers another awful haunt of Irish history. In 2012, Ryan said that the network of programs for the American poor made people not want to work.
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Where have I heard that before? Ah, yes -- 19th-century England. The Irish national character, Trevelyan confided to a fellow aristocrat, was "defective." The hungry millions were "a selfish, perverse, and turbulent" people, said the man in charge of relieving their plight.

Or a .308.

From a formal art theory pov the Judd cube is a culmination of modernism. Take all that is purely human out of the equation out and what is left is the divine.  I think Rothko expressed this in a way that many can understand. Duchamp did it too earlier with his readymades when he bought the product of blue collar workers and re-assigned it making the "hand" of the artist the thought of the artist.

The bullet holes in the cube could be read as a fracturing or humanizing of high modernism. it is the equation of a gun with humanity - our desire to, and use of instruments to eliminate or stop other animal lives and pits that against a static chemical and mathematical model.

That leads into a psychological interpretation of the work which is also very interesting. Not summarily dismissing the board member's view point, the meaning of the work as viewed is one of destruction which is both a universal and human motivator and necessary process. Destruction is also transformative.

Paul Ryan And His Irish Amnesia

I posted excerpts from the op-ed here but I'm afraid that it got lost in the discussion of the St. Pat. parade.

He was her commander, he was senior rater, he could have destroyed her career with a blink.  So your commander lets you know he wants your extra service to your country, you have two choices.  You give him/her what they want, or you expose them and a huge career destroying he said she said ensues with no real charges able to be proven.

Commanders get off all the time with the affair bull$hit and it is usually exactly that at the core of the initial formation of "the relationship".....bull$hit.  The core of the relationship is fear and intimidation. And the victim will often invent feelings that don't exist and plaster that over the core in an attempt to survive what is happening to them and carry on with their stressful daily duties.  

Kristin Nevedal chairs the Emerald Growers Association, the triangle's marijuana trade group. The coauthor of an ecofriendly pot-farming guide, she often consults with state and local lawmakers about how to make the industry more responsible. "Prohibition hasn't curbed the desire for cannabis," she says. "So we really need to look at changing our policy and starting to treat it like agriculture, so we can manage it."