Does artistic genius and contribution negate horrendous evil? No. This is how I've reasoned through the murky territory of great artists with personal failings: While they may be troubled and condemned personally, their art can stand on its own.
Waiting for their dear leader to express his opinion, the "power to the people" crowd has kept silent. My take: the risk for making Obama look bad, or better yet being on the outs should an opinion differ from the Borg, has kept the Left mum about the Iranian uprising. [Or criticize anyone willing to note something IS happening in Iran.]
So my sister takes me to her place of employment. It's winter break, and unlike in the United States, Australians just take off for a couple weeks through the holidays. The few people at the office the fam and I get to meet. My sister reminds us to behave, to be gracious and introduce ourselves if, for some reason, she forgets an employee's name since she's still relatively new there, and to keep our hands to ourselves. She did not explicitly tell me to not talk politics. Her mistake.
The pendulum has swung, folks. Perky breasts, like hemlines, are going down--reflecting the economic slump. Plastic surgeons are quite confident the problem is economic. Women just can't afford to do what they want to do which is to have glorious, hard, round, mounds of silicone. Well, that's the theory:
