>In the first episode it was ducks.
Okay, so at the lake the ducks will come back.
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>You may be right about the technicalities of the Brooklyn Museum of Art affair. However it shook out financially and legally, the mayor of New York wanted the exhibit gone.
Yeah, the art world really was diminished by the lack of enthusiasm on the part of an elected public official for a publicly funded museum displaying a madonna covered with elephant dung < s > Of course if it had been a Koran ...
( and this from a guy who has a Voltaire quote hanging on his wall that "Human happiness will be acheieved when the last priest is strangled with the guts of the last king" )
I lived in SF during the Maplethorpe brouhaha. I'm pretty much against censoring anything but I would be hard pressed to defend the NEA unless it was completely privately funded. ) of course I'm not real big on taxes either so the annointed can decide better than I how to spend my money < s > )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
