The State Senate: home of dysfunction, bastion of corruption -- a place where most bills leave as shadows of their former selves, battered by special interests, wearing rags and begging for spare signatures.
Whether the installations, which are on show for most of the year, will survive their self-battering without becoming tatty or breaking down is another question.
When my old crap comes up, again and again, and I feel pathetic because I can't get it right, I step away from the self-battering ram.
And I think it is because I had my self-esteem battered out of me at such a young age.
Ms. Anawak, the government mental health specialist, has embarked on a school and prison campaign of Inuit pride to raise self-esteem battered by the television barrage from southern Canadian society.
One thing us Greeks can always be smugly proud of, regardless of how little money and medicine we have, or how many brain cells we've self-defeatingly battered out of the national gene pool with massive sticks in the last few years, is our summer.
The first 40 minutes went well: he told me about his long battle with drugs, the hardship he has put his family through, his so far inability to change and the battering his self esteem has taken over the years.
A flood of desperate refugees from across the Mediterranean and the related surge of indignant fringe parties, including now from iconic, self-satisfied Denmark, are battering the discredited political establishment in Europe.
"Our physical selves have been battered away," she said in "Close to the Machine".
Do we require that a women self-identify as battered to count her as such?
But for those not in relationships, the feast of the patron saint of love is just an excuse for rampant commercialism; a tedious annual ordeal of punctured expectation; compounded loneliness and battered self-worth.
