January 5, 2006

"Intimate Electric Fence" funded with your tax dollars

By Ben Cunningham
Drew Johnson at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research does a magnificent job of documenting the folly and mismanagement of our state tax dollars. This is not for children. For that matter, it would be difficult to explain this to anyone.

"The Tennessee Arts Commission granted $32,500 to offset the operating expenses of the Memphis-based National Ornamental Metal Museum. A portion of that money is funding "Impenetrable Devices," a sculpture exhibit of stainless steel genital prostheses and undergarments intended to maim would-be sexual partners or attackers."

You can just hear the conversation that must have taken place deep in the recesses of the capitol, "now let me see, do we spend this money on public health or education or.....wait, I know, lets spend it on a sculpture exhibit of stainless steel genital prostheses."