Deposed president Manuel Zelaya commissioned the above sculpture of himself (he’s the guy on the grass) before the other branches of government thought to improve the country by removing its executive. It seems to have cost something like $10,000, which this Honduran paper finds to be both an outrageous misappropriation of state funds and proof that Zelaya suffers from megalomania “like Saddam Hussein.” I think it was a bargain.
The guys on the bench kind of remind me of those old statues of Ronald McDonald.
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Great picture. Should be used as the movie poster when someone makes an arthouse pic about the whole absurdity.
Kerry! You should post more often!
And Will should too!
If you liked Bright-Sided, you may like Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (Hardcover)
by Eric G. Wilson.