{"id":87723,"date":"2024-06-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87723"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:45:05","slug":"ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87723","title":{"rendered":"Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Classic literature instructs us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Said the Mock Turtle with a sigh, ‘I only took the regular course.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘What was that?’ inquired Alice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle replied; ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic\u2014Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘I never heard of “Uglification,”‘ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. ‘What! Never heard of uglifying!’ it exclaimed. ‘You know what to beautify is, I suppose?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means\u2014to\u2014make\u2014anything\u2014prettier.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota Democrats know what it means and they are hard at it
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I don’t like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes, no longer in Como Park<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The problem with the flag – and to a lesser extent the license plate – is that they were designed by graphic designers, judged by people whose background was graphic design (filtered through politics), by criteria that make sense only in graphic design terms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while graphic design is one of many tools used to get ideas across to people, when applied for its own sake it’s an intensely myopic discipline. It certainly doesn’t help that so much of my own field has been dragged down by visual designers masquerading as problem-solvers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take all that and filter it through politics, and you get the same effect as when you filter science through politics; bad design and\/or politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minnesota DFL destroys everything it touches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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