Writing It In

Blogger Bill Dusty reports that in last week's election 712 Springfield voters wrote in someone's name against the otherwise unopposed Congressman Richard Neal (above with Hillary). I would love to see a list of the names that were written down! I'm sure many of them would be cause for laughter. 

 

The National Enquirer is reporting it has photographs of John McCain's wife Cindy passionately kissing another man. The McCain camp declines to comment and of course the Enquirer used to be famous for its daffy claims, but all that changed earlier this year when the Enquirer forced John Edwards to confess that he had an extramarital affair, although Edwards vehemently denied the Enquirer's accusation that he was the father of the woman's mysterious love child. Gawker had this to say about the McCain revelations:

This is shocking news for those who thought the marriage between cruel, borderline-emotionally abusive absentee husband and serial-cheater John McCain and lonely, DC-hating, solitary, formerly drug-addicted Cindy McCain was a strong, healthy bond.

 

Classes at UMass were cancelled yesterday due to Veteran's Day. Today students were collecting donations for local veteran groups. 

The UMass Fine Arts Center is a hulking mass of poured concrete. 

The Fine Arts building is also too small for current needs, so a new building has been erected across the street to supplement it. I took a picture of it last year when it was under construction. 

Here is how it looks completed. 

Notice how they didn't copy the concrete style of the original, but went instead with the brick decor that has served the older UMass buildings so well.

In the front window is this student sculpture.
Is it Pan or Satan?


Only the artist knows for sure.