[The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind] A Hayseed Goes to Washington.

Like Florida, its Gulf Coast partner in concrete-headed stupidity, Texas is always good for a laugh or two.

Take this little article, for example:

Work on Texas GOP's platform stirs passions
09:02 AM CDT on Friday, June 13, 2008
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News

HOUSTON – Robert Hurt went to Washington and didn't like what he saw – nudity in the nation's capital.

"Nude women, sculptured women," he told the state Republican platform committee, which sat in rapt attention.

Of all the evils in Washington that the Texas GOP took aim at this week, removing art with naked people from public view was high on the list for Mr. Hurt, a delegate from Kerrville.

"You don't have nude art on your front porch," he explained. "You possibly don't have nude art in your living rooms. So why is it important to have that in the common places of Washington, D.C.?"

Mr. Hurt offered statistics: He'd heard that 20 percent of the art in the National Gallery of Art is of nudes.

He offered detail: On Arlington Memorial Bridge overlooking the famed national cemetery, "there are two Lady Godivas, two women on horses with no shirt on and long hair."

Actually, they are classical sculptures about war – one called Valor, depicting a male equestrian and a female with a shield, and Sacrifice, a female accompanying the rider Mars. (Full Story)

I love the end bit there. I mean, here we have some uncultured, rabidly-ignorant, Bible-thumping yokel from Texas squawking about the artwork in our nation's capital, and how, in his narrow mind, the memorials, the statues, and the landmarks meant to honor and pay homage to one thing or another from our nation's history can lead to decadence and all sorts of human depravity.

If he's popping his gasket over a couple of naked chicks on a bridge, just wait until this witless , sex-obsessed gomer casts his eyes upon the Washington Monument or finds himself standing, and looking up from Lincoln's wide-stance.

Of course he's a Republican. Of course he's from Texas. And, of course he's a Christian. And, of course he's filled with all sorts of self-righteous indignation over things which extend much further into humanity and reality than his poor, pitiful, terrified, little mind can ever grasp.

It's art. Get over yourself, or go back to your spartan, unadorned life in Texas.


-DP


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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 6/13/2008 11:59:00 AM