Its a Mad Mad World

Click the post's title to link to another International Herald Tribune article. Be forewarned, it may make you sick. The actual first part of the article I would not dare to repost here. Here is a clip from right after:

The next world record price could not have gone to a more different work. Yves Klein coined the cryptic title "MG 9" for the panel that he painted a solid blue around 1962. Seen at close quarters, the panel has a slightly grainy texture. That display of inventiveness made such a tremendous impression on bidders that they sent it climbing to $23.56 million, nearly triple Sotheby's high estimate.

What is wrong with people? 23.56 million dollars (million!) For a panel painted blue? And Burma goes without aid. Governmental politics aside, the children in the streets of Chicago are starving and cold (or where ever you may be. Go several blocks out of your comfort zone and visit those kids, I beg you).
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." (T. Jefferson)