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2008/10/01

A Gallery of the Highly Inadvisable

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Other, not pictured (albeit not rejected) ideas:

  1. Palin bidding adieu to her son with the words, "Have fun fighting Mommy's endless war, son!"
  2. A diagrammatic illustration of Sarah Palin's open cranium reveals a single white flag. Caption: "In the throes of cognitive surrender."
  3. Ms. Palin following her own assessment of the popular sentiment by enjoining the government to "Get out of my way!"...while drowning.
  4. The candidates and their VPs queuing up by a door labeled "The Knesset" to polish its knob.

On a much graver note, as I compose this, the greatest crime hitherto perpetrated against small independent artists--the irredeemably odious Orphan Works Act--is on the verge of being enshrined into law by the House under cover of night, while the nation is preoccupied with an economic crisis and vice presidential debate.

Passage of the legislation [sic] of record will categorically obliterate the intellectual property rights and liberties presently enjoyed by millions of artists in the United States and abroad. Needless to say, this exercise of unalloyed avarice is repugnant to the spirit of this very nation and the universal liberal principles it [purportedly] represents and expounds. It suffices to say that this is a dark day for art.

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