--- In [email protected], "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "bluebishop82"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > As for your invite to go through the budget and pick out other
> > things I dislike, I intend to. I intend to cut completely, PBS,
> NPR
> > and the National Endowment of the Arts. Let these freeloaders
> work
> > for a living like the rest of us.
> >
> >
> Tom
Thank God the popes through the ages, even the most corrupt, maybe
especially the most corrupt (see "The March of Folly", I don't
remember the author), were patrons of the arts and subsidized them
liberally. We have them and their talented artists to thank for most
of the wonders residing in the very crowded museums of Rome and
Florence. Had Papa Tomasso, formerly Il Vescovo Azzurro, been around
at the time, Michelangelo would have been a house painter or sculptor
of ice swans for the banquets of the nobility. And spare me the
nonsense about some modern "artists" defacing religious artifacts,
etc. The popes paid for a lot of dreck, too. Fortunately for them,
they could always rely on the Inquisition to take care of the really
bad stuff.
Frank D'Alessandro
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