More evidence that civilization is circling the drain

[PTK]

If you can't get someone to buy your crucifix of mohammed in a vat of monkey urine, you should starve in the street.

Agreed. I'm still puzzled why so much is publicly thought as a "must" to subsidize. 

[Hawkmoon]

If it makes you think, then it's good art. But that doesn't mean you want it in your living room.

Even if all it makes you think is, "Geez, this pile of sh!t on a shingle looks like a pile of sh!t on a shingle"?

[RaspberrySurprise]

Agreed. I'm still puzzled why so much is publicly thought as a "must" to subsidize. 

Because there are those doing a good job of convincing people it must be so.