Priceless Paintings from W7

You will not have missed the news that Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, has been blasted to the International Space Station on board a Soyuz TM-16 from Baikonur in Kazakhstan earlier this week.

He pays $35 million for the pleasure, apparently fulfilling a life-long dream.

So far, I have no quibbles with Guy fulfilling his dream.

When it comes to reading a poem from space, which emphasises the need for all the world’s population to have access to clean water, he’s lost me, and my sympathy, however. No matter whether he paid 35 million in US, Canadian or Australian dollars, there’s a lot of clean water, water purification equipment and deep well drilling kits to be had for that amount of money.

Guy. You want to ride in space. Fine. You can afford it. Fine. If you feel guilty about the whole thing (which you should), don’t do it. Just spare me the petty excuses.

Thoughts foolish, human

Sometimes you can’t help wondering if “they” employ complete fools on purpose, or if “they” are complete fools to begin with, thus fail to recognise any further foolishness.

For example, I cannot figure out why Intalink of Hertfordshire advertises the richness of information they provide by showing people who aren’t happy at all about this at all. They are instead, as the text explains, shocked and blown away.

In my naive and amateurish opinion, life is simple. Want to sell  positive news? Use a positive message.

I find so much public display of foolishness frightening; laughable if it wasn’t so sad. I can only assume the young lady depicted here thought the same.

Thoughts foolish, human