[Overpaid Slacker]

Island -- few who have studied the art of rhetoric, evidently.

Who said art was valueless? It has great value. It does not save lives (and I haven't seen anything that would even pass for an "argument" on these boards saying it does). Rather, the camp that has no principled argument and makes ad hominem attacks against the proponents of a contrary view for want of ability to attack the view itself has gone into "thermonuclear, preclude debate and smear the other side mode." Again.

We do not gape in awe at the rhetorical abilities of those who cannot discern between such finely differentiated statements "art is valueless" and "art survives just fine w/o the dole" and must, to make any feeble effort at all at a point, attribute the former statement to the proponent of the latter.

And it's all about Christianity. Again. That keeps Supe's record unblemished when ascribing anti-Christian pathologies to those with whom he disagrees. Kind of like a kinder, gentler Inquisition?

JP