The prudes won another one, forcing a Chesapeake, VA, Public Library to relocate a nude painting of a woman after a couple of prudish louts compained.
"Why is one art-ignorant person allowed, and even encouraged, by the public library management to dictate what should or should not be shown in our city’s public library?" said artist Karen Kinser, whose painting Morning Dreaming. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot columnist Kerry Dougherty pointed out July 30 that the state seal of Virginia features the Roman goddess Virtus standing, with one breast exposed, over the body of a defeated enemy. “The truth is, the people who are disturbed about nudes are adults,” Svetlana Mintcheva, arts program director for the National Coalition Against Censorship, told the newspaper.
Doug,
Don't look now but, between the Energy Bill and the Highway Bill, the bough's are already "pork" heavy and about to break.
The big question is, if Asia (primarily China) is in no big hurry to buy our debt anymore, as a result of them being "forced" to float the yuan, just who the hell does congress and the WH think is going to buy the bonds and treasuries necessary to finance those pork-fests?
Frayed