This And That

[poliphilo]

Yesterday's high winds lifted the cladding  off the garden wall. It was very ugly cladding and I'm not sorry to see it go. Now I have to dispose of all the rubble.

Judy's father once bumped into Ayn Rand at a New York party. He said afterwards that she was the ugliest woman he'd ever met. I was watching footage of her last night- and I didn't think her ugly; I thought her reptilian. The two things are not the same. Lizards- for example- are very beautiful in their own way.  Rand has never caught on over here; from what little I know of her I'd say it was because she was entirely lacking in a sense of humour.

The French Open is under way. We had the TV on yesterday afternoon. Eurosport runs adverts you don't encounter anywhere else- mostly for airlines. "We are Turkish airlines/ We are globally yours." Such a pretty tune. I have devised a dance to go with it.  I noted, with bitterness, that the sun was shining in Paris. 

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

For me, it is very difficult to choke back the visceral hatred I have for, not so much the man himself, but Greenspan's willful ignorance and the blind eye that the Serious People turned to this fact. He actually believed that banks, acting solely in their own self-interest, would do right by institutions and share holders. Testifying before Congress, he characterized his "mistake" as “a flaw in the model ... that defines how the world works" -- a model arguably received second-hand from his High Priestess.