All hands on the oven, a fist through the wall

Title ganked from My Game, from The Moon Seven Times  7=49. The band thanks Big Hat in the booklet, making the Chambana-Chicago music scene sound much more incestuous than it actually was. Is. Something.

Metafilter reverts to tripe with this front page post:

Nelson Mandela calls it like he sees it: the United States of America is a threat to world peace... Dick Cheney [and Donald] Rumsfeld...are dinosaurs, who do not want [President Bush] to belong to the modern age. His arguments are well made. But is the power of his historical perspective undermined by his forays into oversimplified racial analysis?

But God forbid one actually include said "oversimplified racial analysis." Then people might argue about the substance of it or something wacky like that.

What about the argument that’s being made about the threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s efforts to build a nuclear weapons. After all, he has invaded other countries, he has fired missiles at Israel. On Thursday, President Bush is going to stand up in front of the United Nations and point to what he says is evidence of...
       

       …Scott Ritter, a former United Nations arms inspector who is in Baghdad, has said that there is no evidence whatsoever of [development of weapons of] mass destruction. Neither Bush nor [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair has provided any evidence that such weapons exist. But what we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction. Nobody talks about that. Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white.

And we can't have that. In fact, thus far in the 30-comment thread, we don't. Or rather they; couldn't participate there if I wanted to, and I really don't.

And the policy of restricting comments is starting to appeal to me.

Mandela can easily be confused with Mandala if you're only half-awake.

Mandala is the Sanskrit word for circle. In religious art, the mandala is used to symbolize wholeness - the circle of eternity. However, the pattern of a mandala -- a circle with a center -- reaches far beyond a two or three dimensional art form.

Which has nothing to do with anything. Not sure why I even bother mentioning it.

Want to know more? A picture is worth a thousand words. More, if the words are like mine, consisting mostly of profanity.

Starwheels by Aya

The StarWheels are a collection of 6' x 6' mandala paintings created by artist Aya.

These "neo-mandalas" have been envisioned as a hologram of 12 series of 12 templates of Light.

100 StarWheels have been born so far
... and the family keeps expanding.

Prefer the Catherine wheel my own self, but I am half-awake, and cranky.

9/10/2002: Mandela Has Lost It
Nelson Mandela plays the race card, calling Israel a “white country.”

[. . .] This is an utterly despicable accusation. I used to admire Mandela tremendously for his considerable achievements in South Africa; I even met him backstage at an Al Jarreau benefit concert in Sandton, and he was funny and personable. But this is the same kind of cheap grandstanding victimhood we see in the US from demagogues like Al Sharpton. How very disappointing to see a great man brought so low.

It's like one-stop shopping for dumbass comments from dumbass white people. Between this and the Joe Boxer threads, I may not have to surf for material for the rest of the month. . .

Or, if I'm stupid, I'll hit the blogdex sources page for this story, and end up at The Hoosier Review. There's another Sharpton comparison in the comments. Apparently, that's what the crackas say when they really hate your black ass.

Charming.