Even for the Sun this is stupid

Wow:

If a Democrat wins the presidency in November, the overwhelmingly Democratic city of Baltimore could have a unique way to celebrate: by removing that silver elephant otherwise known as Male/Female from in front of Penn Station. More than any other artwork in the city, that sculpture seems to exemplify the era of the Bush administration.

How so? First, it was foisted upon the people in a technically legal but generally galling way. What the Supreme Court did for George W. Bush in December 2000, the Municipal Art Society did for Male/Female in 2004. Second, it's big and brash and totally insensitive to the reality that surrounds it. Third, its much-vaunted heart is artificial, and its brain is pretty well hidden. Also, its approval ratings are minuscule.

Defenders of Male/Female love to sneer that any criticism of it is unsophisticated. People used to think that criticism of the Bush administration was unsophisticated, too. This sculpture perfectly caught the essence of its time - and we believe that by next year that time will have passed. Send it over to MICA, where the art students can study an artifact of a bygone era.

What an immature, petty, stupid rant. Words can't even describe how lame this is, and pretty much sums up in three asinine paragraphs how devoid the Sun's obstinate Editorial Board is of even vaguely intelligent or critical thinking.

Amsued by their petulance

The petulance of FSP blogger "lefty" is amusing:

All in all, here's the deal: the debate is a foolish one, and you don't want a debate, anyway, you want to provoke and annoy people and feel all big and strong.

Not buying. Go away, little boy. Play with your toys somewhere else.

The left thinks that this is engaging the issues.

But no, lefty refuses to engage in a debate over the issues. Neither does Isaac Smith, Andrew Kujan, or Eric Luedtke. The seem to feel comfortable in espousing their ideas and hate-filled rhetoric from behind a keyboard, but don't have the size to step into a public arena. It probably has something to do with the fact that when they stick to the issues, they lose.

Therefore, I will be taking on Democrat Bruce Godfrey and Green Robb Black in a debate sometime in the new year on the issue of parties and the working class. They stepped up and accepted a debate on real issues and not just obfuscation and name calling from behind a keyboard and I appreciate their forthrightness.

If Smith, Kujan, Luedtke, et. al find the heart, we'll make something work. But until then, I think we can say the team at Free State Politics does not have the courage of their convictions to stand up for their issues. And that's disappointing.