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  • Frisco teacher on leave after museum trip

    09/30/2006 5:55:17 AM PDT · 42 of 47
    andie to newpooh

    According to the NY Times article, these were offending art pieces: (link below)

    "Ms. McGee passed the marble torso of a Greek youth from a funerary relief, circa 330 B.C.; its label reads, “his nude body has the radiant purity of an athlete in his prime.” She passed sculptor Auguste Rodin’s tormented “Shade;” Aristide Maillol’s “Flora,” with her clingy sheer garment; and Jean Arp’s “Star in a Dream.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/education/30teacher.html?pagewanted=print



    And performance issues brought to her attention in May were not displaying enough of the children's artwork and wearing "flip flops" which were actually Via Spiga sandals (expensive and very tasteful)

  • V: For Vendetta (Debbie Schlussel Updated Review Alert)

    03/10/2006 8:40:04 AM PST · 75 of 126
    andie to goldstategop

    I'm a bit confused about why conservatives think this has a liberal agenda, outside of it being produced in Hollywood.

    The premise of the movie is that Hitler and the Germans won WWII and spread Nazism/Facism to Britain (and, presumably continental Europe). An unfortunate fact about Hitler's regime is that Catholicism or Lutheranism were pretty much the only permitted religions in Germany. Hitler himself was a baptized Catholic (with an unmarried mistress, which doesn't say much about his practice of the religion). The regime in the movie has permitted a famine that has killed scores of Britons (North Korea, anyone?). It runs concentration camps where "undesirables" such as German concentration camps and Soviet gulags housed them (and I would imagine that they are places where black, brown, and Jewish "foriegners" and dissedents are housed and/or killed), and have run horrific scientific experiments (ala Jozef Mengele).

    Can someone please explain why this plot has an anti-American agenda? This is what the U.S. completely stands against and has fought against. Maybe we should hold our stones to see the evidence before we throw them?