[F16Fighter]

"Oh the horror. 5 million 'wasted.' That amount is spent by the feds every five minutes, maybe less. But we love getting off on irrelevant symbolic issues don't we?

The next time you flush the john after a Taco Bell "meal," pretend you are watching a $5m piece of NEA "art" swirling down the tubes and think of this thread.

[Torie]

Not all NEA supported stuff is trash. Government support of the arts will always be controversial, until the sun goes into supernova, assuming a super volcano, or a huge asteroid, or the flip of the magnetic poles, does not do in the species first, as it probably will, in which event, the controversy will end much earlier. Moving right along, almost every society does it, via "coercive" taxation though, from Pericles until now. Get used to it. In the meantime, I am not going to get deflected by this issue. You all have fun.