[pepsi_junkie]

If it wasn't for royal patronage (much more brutal than the RIAA could ever hope to be) Mozart WOULDN'T have become a world-renowned composer.

Hmmmm. Good. Finally something for the National Endowment For the Arts to do.

[discostu]

Ugh, what a poorly run organization. I do think the government should support the arts, if for no other reason than the history of governments that stop supporting the arts tends to be pretty bad. But the way the NEA does things is so stupid.