What About It?


You know, sometimes the proper response IS "Well, Fuck 'em if they can't take it:"

Controversy has erupted from the sleepy third-floor hallway galleries at the New York Public Library, where a modest exhibition of contemporary prints called "Multiple Interpretations" is on view.

The work that has prompted protests from some library patrons, attracted coverage by The Daily News, Fox News and USA Today and has stirred the blogosphere is called "Line Up," a series of politically inflammatory prints by the team of Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. Each black-and-white digital print is a mug shot-style diptych in which a member of the Bush administration appears in profile and face forward, holding a police identification sign and the date on which he or she made a statement of questionable veracity relating to Iraq.

Don't like it? Well, too goddamned bad. Harldly an eyelash was batted for all the years that the likes of Rush Lamebone, Michaels Weiner and Reagan, etc., etc., ad nauseum accused anyone not preaching the vilest "Christian" sadism of being the traitorous spawn of Satan. But now everyone else must show deference when it's neo-con panties in a knot.

As a French friend of mine once said (in the midst of picking up the English language at an astonishingly fast pace), "it is, how you say, shit of bull?" [sfx: Gallic accent].

No, 9/11 didn't "change everything," and it's NOT "just politics" when you literally trash the rule of law, so don't go acting like you deserve equal time or any other such nonsense. Besides, Lamebone et al have been carrying your water all these years anyway.

Hell, if it'd been me, I would've taken the much-missed Billmon's approach and put 'em in the dock at Nuremberg.