Personal responsibility and the arts

A compelling op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal addresses the tension between the need for the arts and the burden of funding the arts. Funding for the arts via the National Endowment for the Arts in Obama’s stimulus package barely squeezed through the Senate, even though it was a RELATIVELY small allotment.
When economic [...]

Forbidden fruits

The newest issue of the Reporter came terribly close to including an artistic rendering of (gasp) the penis, in multiples, no less. But alas, at the last minute, space consideration forced me to pull it out. So, here it is in all its glory, from the “Some Like it Hot” annual erotic art exhibition [...]