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It's good that you mentioned art, since I was an art major in college and I've been a professional designer for over twenty years. Now in visual arts, as I'm sure you know, there is something called composition and its two main parts, positive and negative space. How the composition is arranged is vitally important to how it is perceived. Usually the positive space is predominant, but what is left out is often as important. Also, especially in representational art, there are often themes and sub themes, patterns, symbols, and the like.

Written works can be similarly described, using "positive space"- what is written- and "negative space" -what is left out. They are also usually themes and sub themes, and variations in characterizations. The terms "wooden characters" and "cardboard cutouts" are often derisively used to label inferior works that use stereotypes devoid of shading and complexity.

I cannot ascribe content to the author's work where it does not appear. In this case I read only one theme, with no hinting at sub themes or contrast, other than the obvious. I see only broad brushstokes, with no subtelty to shade the characterization of the youth of Orange County as shallow, spoiled, and self centered.

Perhaps if he had used irony, as in a few words to contrast the kids who've died and their grieving families to the carefree youth he uses so many to document, or symbolism with a line about how the scene is repeated in communities around the nation, the connection can be drawn. But no such mechanism is provided, so one is left to judge as the piece is written.

Unless by art you mean finger painting where you can read into it whatever you want.

It's good that you mentioned art, since I was an art major in college and I've been a professional designer for over twenty years.

And you STILL missed the point. How sad. But you must keep in mind that unverifiable claims of authority mean absolutely nothing on the net. Anyone can claim to be anything, and still be just an other chest-thumping keyboard warrior with coke-bottle glasses and a greasy bag of Doritos next to his Beastie Boys mousepad.

That said, I have no reason to doubt your claims of authority, nor to doubt that your special CA sensitivity caused you to miss the guy's greater point.

Liberals and Islam are the enemy of the age, not the article or the author of the article, my friend.

BTW: The liberal morass and flood of illegal aliens is taking CA right out from under your nose. It is ceasing to be CA and will be a third world dump at some point unless something is done. But you knew that already.