The two or three people who read this blog may have noticed that I posted about the famous British author, J.G. Ballard yesterday. Ballard became infamous for exposing a very uncomfortable truth about humans - that violence and sex are closely bound in our psyches - in his 1973 book Crash, which explored the relationship of automobile accidents and sex. Here's Ballard recounting how he ended up writing Crash.
As if to prove Ballard's thesis, albeit in a different fashion, today the New York Times reports about the scandal surrounding the president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, the governing body of international motor sports such as the Formula 1 circuit. Read about Max Mosley's Nazi-themed orgy, if you can stomach it. Many thanks to Dave D'Alessandro for passing on the story!
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