Not just an 80s electro-pop album title. It's the old dilemma: can you enjoy art once you learn the artist's opinions, or discover what an utter cad he was? Let's say an architect wrote this in 1938:

"The decline in fertility, so far as scientists have been able to discover, is unique in the history of the white race. In short, the United States of America is committing race suicide."

And let's say that architect's name s on the IDS center, because it is.

Matt Novak pointed out Philip Johnson's Nazi past at Paleofuture:

Hilarity did not result in the comments, but it's a good summary of the arguments for keeping these facts in mind as well as setting them aside.

Here's how the IDS Center's biography of Johnson puts it:

The subject of Johnson's past usually leads to a festival of loathing for his architecture, which has many detractors. Johnson committed the sin of being successful and pliable; instead of sticking to one style and marching through life with the steely gaze of the Olympian Genius, descending to the mortal plane every few years to deliver something brilliant and pure, he designed a lot of stuff that strikes some people today as a kitschy or ridiculous. But anyone who remembers skyscraper architecture in the early 80s recalls how dreadful tall buildings had become, and how the addition of new shapes, ornamentation, and historical references made for interesting additions to the American skyline. How much of it was Johnson, and how much of it was the work of his associates, I've no idea. I suspect he drew a few things on paper and let the rest of them sort it out. In any case, there's no particular morality attached to architecture itself, OMD notwithstanding; we associate the architecture of Nazi Germany with evil because of the actions of the people who inhabited the buildings, not the stones themselves. JUSTICE Your honor, we would like to instruct the jury to disregard the defendant's neck:

WEB This Daily Dot piece on "the Reddit Power user who helped bring down r/technology" has a graf that reminds you of things one might want left out of an obituary:

Also on the world of personal accomplishments, from Vice: THIS GUY IS TRYING TO COLLECT EVERY SINGLE CPY OF THE MOVIE 'SPEED' ON VHS."

Now go out there and not see things as needing an instrumental value. But only after you watch this:

VotD Your Russian dashcam footage of the day gives us a motorist who decides to do something about a drunk driver.

The driver appears to freeze, like some small creature that plays dead to escape predation.