Day 1,249: augury

Unless the mainstream parties can reverse that trend, circus acts like the nhk party could turn out to be less an entertainment than an augury of more serious populism.

Japan’s oddball populists

Artwork of the day 
Augury
Adolph Gottlieb
Date: 1945
Style: Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Genre: symbolic painting
Media: oil
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, US
Dimensions: 101.6 x 76.1 cm

Word of the day 
augury: a sign of what might happen in the future

Quote of the day
“Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet