He’s looking at my statue!

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 11/29/03 | Editorial

[Holly_P]

PUT CHILDREN together in a room

long enough, and eventually there’s

going to be a fight. Not necessarily a fist fight, mind you. Maybe just a spat. And the argument doesn’t even have to be about anything important. But if one kid looks at another the wrong way, that’s all it takes. "Daddy! He’s looking at me!" " Well, his arm is touching my leg!" At some point, the resident adult will sigh, and say: "Come on, kids. If you’re going to fight, find something to fight about." It’s a faithful standby when the kids start to ying-yang back and forth, and Daddy has had enough. Well, we bet many readers rubbed their temples Daddy-style, or maybe just sighed heavily, when they read Sunday’s piece on the new battle of Sharpsburg in Maryland. A man named William Chaney put up a statue of Robert E. Lee near the Antietam battleground—on his own property—and it’s caused quite a bother. At least among the easily bothered. We saw the picture of the monument in the paper. It looks like an unexceptional equestrian bronze, about 24 feet tall, rising high above the battlefield, depicting General Lee on his horse. Listen, it beats pink flamingos. Ah, but The Bothered had an Aha! moment when they spotted General Lee’s trusty steed, Traveller. At the time of the battle, Lee had hurt his wrists and couldn’t ride a horse! And the statue is in an area of the battlefield that was controlled by the Union! Tear down that monument! Bring on the bulldozers!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Kids? Walk into any bar and you will find the same situation.