Tax dollars at work
Bookworm on Feb 11 2009 at 6:13 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
If you’d like a beautiful microcosm of spendulus, check out this use of Berkeley taxpayer dollars:
Decorative medallions depicting dogs sniffing, dumping and humping each other have recently been added to the base of one of a pair of sculptures commissioned by the city on either end of the pedestrian and bike bridge over Interstate 80.
At first glance, one might think the scatological series of bronzes – at the base of the west side sculpture celebrating the waterfront park – is a joke.
It’s not.
“I am showing dogs doing what dogs do at the dog park,” said Scott Donahue, the Emeryville artist who was paid $196,000 from Berkeley’s public arts program to create the sculptures.
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I think it’s very sweet that the government is spending money on retarded artists. Of course it would be even sweeter still if the dogs could pay for their own damn instructions, preferably with coin that only an orthodox Freudian concerned about anal stages would understand.
I remember reading once that around the time of Moloch, the god who demanded child sacrifices, there were some Mideastern cults that worshipped feces.
Once you start down the slippery slope, each meter along the way becomes easier to traverse. I suppose it’s “transgressive” and “pushing artistic boundaries” to sculpt dogs taking a shit and call it art. To me it’s no better than when a three year old proudly proclaims his ability to make ca-ca.
Well, kid, all of us can do that without giving it a thought. Now, if I could just figure out a way to be paid $196,000 for not thinking.
“I am showing dogs doing what dogs do . . .”
I had *no* idea what dogs got up to–thank you, Great Artist, for telling me.
Now, I’m forced to look at the Idiot Beagle snoring at my feet in a new light. I’m so disillusioned.
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Perpetual adolescents.
Shoot, I thought dogs in the park chased frisbees, too, or sticks or tennis balls, and played and romped. And sat in the sun, rolled over, wanted their bellies scratched. Gazed adoringly at their owners.
Leave it to a leftist to focus on sniffing butts, dumping, and humping. It sure tells you a lot about the worth of particular viewpoints, doesn’t it?
This is nothing more than another assault on decency and traditional values. Another skirmish in the endless culture war that broke out in the mid 60′s. The assault comes at us from so MANY different directions, doesn’t it?
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