Well, hey, I'll play devil's advocate here, my own boney hillbilly Christain self...

I'm thinking back to a class I took when I was in art school. I can't rememeber the guys name but it was entitled "Contempoary Art Seminar" or soemthing like that and the fist class he asked everyone in the class "What is art?" and got an interesting collection of responses. After everyone had an opportunity to reply he took the trash can next to his desk/podium filled with previous classes miscellany and like bailing out a boat emptied it's contents all over the room while exclaiming "This is art!".... Well, if art is something that we react to, as everyone in that class certainly did, then, sure... it meets the criteria. Is it good art? Different question. Would you buy it? Probably not. But did you reat to it? Yeah...

I think, given the website that followed, GUEST has certainly gotten a lot of folks to think. In that, it probably is a good post, irregarless of it's offensiveness. When I copied and pasted the website that followed I thopught of the horror that one must feel to see one's child killed in a war. I thought of the horror that Picasso captured in his painting "Guernica" with the arrow sharp tongue of the farm animal pointing toward the sky from which bombs would fall and kill not just farm animals but children and their families...

It is well known that I am not a proponent of foul language yet I can understand the absolute rage that can bring a person to such a level. When war touches one on a personal basis it has to have a dehumanizing effect on them. I mean, look back to the evening of 9/11 and your own thoughts and ask yourself honestly what you are capable of given the circumstance.

So, yes, I was offended by GUEST's post but I am equally offended by my country's foriegen policy that trades kids lives for oil...

Peace

Bobert