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	<title>Comments on: History repeats itself</title>
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	<description>Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.</description>
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		<title>By: Gringo</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/28/history-repeats-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-24103</link>
		<dc:creator>Gringo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 23:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What would Herb Caen have thought?</description>
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		<title>By: zabrina</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/28/history-repeats-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-24101</link>
		<dc:creator>zabrina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 22:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pretty amazing. I feel sad to realize I will never be able to return to the beautiful city by the bay where I spent one wonderful year between college and marriage. Your revealing posts of this nature over the past year have demonstrated that the lunatics have inherited the asylum with little protest offered up by the rest of the citizens. San Francisco is no longer a fitting place for children or for decent adults.

At least I can still watch &quot;Vertigo&quot; for the backgrounds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pretty amazing. I feel sad to realize I will never be able to return to the beautiful city by the bay where I spent one wonderful year between college and marriage. Your revealing posts of this nature over the past year have demonstrated that the lunatics have inherited the asylum with little protest offered up by the rest of the citizens. San Francisco is no longer a fitting place for children or for decent adults.</p>
<p>At least I can still watch &#8220;Vertigo&#8221; for the backgrounds.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Devx</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/28/history-repeats-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-24092</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Devx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>--- but as Dr. Queen says, “We’ll try to continue to be as subversive as we can.”

It&#039;s infuriating to think that tax dollars go to support an arts community that seeks solely to accomplish what Dr. Queen is accomplishing here: To be as subversive as they possibly can.

Beauty, grace, elegance, vision, awe... no, none of these matter for art.  They are all mere trifles.  What is solely important about art is to be as subversive as you possibly can.
And the ENTIRE arts community of a city is devoted to this one single principle.

I am sure I am exaggerating; and perhaps no taxpayer money is associated with this particular ... exercise.  (Giggle, snort, giggle!  I was as punny as the author was!  Gee, where&#039;s my right-hand man when I need one?  I can see Beavis and Butthead watching this telethon right now.)

But I get so frustrated when I think that we are required to SUPPORT crap like this.  Tolerate, well, ok.  Let these nasty, smirking adult children have their fun.  But to actually have to SUPPORT them with funding...  Perhaps more of this will lead us back to solely private funding for all manner of the arts, because it&#039;s unconscionable.  Denying them public funding would go a long way to wiping the smirks off their faces.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8212; but as Dr. Queen says, “We’ll try to continue to be as subversive as we can.”</p>
<p>It&#8217;s infuriating to think that tax dollars go to support an arts community that seeks solely to accomplish what Dr. Queen is accomplishing here: To be as subversive as they possibly can.</p>
<p>Beauty, grace, elegance, vision, awe&#8230; no, none of these matter for art.  They are all mere trifles.  What is solely important about art is to be as subversive as you possibly can.<br />
And the ENTIRE arts community of a city is devoted to this one single principle.</p>
<p>I am sure I am exaggerating; and perhaps no taxpayer money is associated with this particular &#8230; exercise.  (Giggle, snort, giggle!  I was as punny as the author was!  Gee, where&#8217;s my right-hand man when I need one?  I can see Beavis and Butthead watching this telethon right now.)</p>
<p>But I get so frustrated when I think that we are required to SUPPORT crap like this.  Tolerate, well, ok.  Let these nasty, smirking adult children have their fun.  But to actually have to SUPPORT them with funding&#8230;  Perhaps more of this will lead us back to solely private funding for all manner of the arts, because it&#8217;s unconscionable.  Denying them public funding would go a long way to wiping the smirks off their faces.</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Weird things happen when civilizations reach too high while high.

Usually they tend to fall down. The more highly civilized they are, the longer it takes them to fall and the harder the hitting the ground becomes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Weird things happen when civilizations reach too high while high.</p>
<p>Usually they tend to fall down. The more highly civilized they are, the longer it takes them to fall and the harder the hitting the ground becomes.</p>
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		<title>By: Danny Lemieux</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/28/history-repeats-itself/comment-page-1/#comment-24082</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny Lemieux</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Never mind how the Muslims the world over must be assessing this glimpse of Western Society...it makes me want to go on my own societal jihad. 

Take my children there? Forget it. I, for one, will work hard to avoid spending another dime of my money in S.F., much as I love that city for what it used to be. Perhaps it should be walled off and used as a museum to celebrate the logical end-game of Liberal/Leftism. For the Midwest, Detroit could be turned into a similar museum. East Coast - maybe Philly.

Fortunately, there are a lot of still-nice communities surrounding the city.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Never mind how the Muslims the world over must be assessing this glimpse of Western Society&#8230;it makes me want to go on my own societal jihad. </p>
<p>Take my children there? Forget it. I, for one, will work hard to avoid spending another dime of my money in S.F., much as I love that city for what it used to be. Perhaps it should be walled off and used as a museum to celebrate the logical end-game of Liberal/Leftism. For the Midwest, Detroit could be turned into a similar museum. East Coast &#8211; maybe Philly.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there are a lot of still-nice communities surrounding the city.</p>
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