Archive of entries posted on 5th June 2025
Dear Shabby:
Flaming June
A painting by Frederic Leighton:
It starts off looking like a restful repose, doesn’t it?
But then when you gaze longer, you start to notice things: the nipple, of course, but also that weird left leg (can it come from the same hip?), and that weird right wrist. And then the ocean. Is that a volcano?
Leighton maintained that the woman’s circular pose originated with a tired model in his studio, but it is not a position that any person could hold for long…
That green blob in the lower left: Edvard Munch’s The Scream was created two years earlier, in 1893. Could this possibly have been a reference to it?
Flaming June triumphed at exhibition in 1895, but its moment in the sun was short. Leighton’s death the following year heralded the end of an era.
Straight Line of the Day: Wait — What Do Food Preparation and Assisted Suicide Have To Do With One Another?
Illinois rep. adds assisted suicide language into food prep bill as amendment
Live Action News | May 25, 2025 | Nancy FlandersLegislators in Illinois are working to quietly legalize assisted suicide by attaching pro-assisted death language to a food preparation sanitation bill as an amendment.
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Democratic Rep. Robyn Gabel has attached the stalled assisted suicide bill’s language to a food preparation safety bill as an amendment.
The assisted suicide language allows for people diagnosed with a “terminal illness” and given six months or less to live to be prescribed a deadly drug cocktail.
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To diminish the act of physician-assisted killing for what it really is — suicide — the amendment stipulates that deaths “in accordance with this Act do not, for any purposes, constitute suicide, assisted suicide, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, murder, manslaughter, elder abuse or neglect, or any other civil or criminal violation under the law.”
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I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.
