[Watershed]

I agree. I'm so sick of finding out that someone whom I used to like has such idiotic views. I don't care what their politics are, just shut up about it.

Each year there are more to add to my list. So many movies I won't see. So many cd's I won't hear.... it just goes on and on.

Don't they get it at all?

[Taft in '52]

I'm so sick of finding out that someone whom I used to like has such idiotic views.

This has been going on for a long time. You may recall that Aaron Copeland, arguably America's greatest composer, was a Stalinist, as was one of our greatest baritone vocalists, Paul Robeson, and in an op-ed piece back in the 1980's, the famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein called for the total abolition of America's armed forces (for more about Bernstein's flirting with radicals, read Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Flakcatchers (1970).

What's wrong with the arts community?