The CBC's National tonight ran an admiring profile on [no permalink: click on eagle icon on right side] Anita Kunz, a Canadian artist-illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc.
Ms. Kunz is indeed very talented. But what's talent without the chi-chi struggle against the tentacles of the State? And O, yes, fear and oppression reign in America.
CBC doesn't provide transcripts, so this is all from memory:
"Here's one that got rejected. [Drawing of George Bush, as a baby in a sandbox, playing with toy jets and tanks] And the Mr. Potato Head is Saddam Hussein. It's one way of looking at the war."
Why, yes, it is one way of looking at the war. A profoundly stupid way of looking at it, if you ask me.
But if Ms. Kunz confuses my opinion -- or more importantly, that of her editor -- with censorship, then I've got a whole closet full of "censored" writing that maybe she'd be interested in.
The outrages don't stop there -- the moron bastard Yanks have further decided to silence her by mounting a 4-month display of her work at the Library of Congress, the first Canadian artist so honored.
It's that evil Ashcroft pulling strings again. What will he think of next?
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