Fight Fire with Sapphire!

While most of my readers are advanced souls who read this blog for the numerous pearls of wisdom it contains it is clear that some are merely malicious right-wingers who seek to hurt my soul and disallign my chakras.  Take "Alan Himmler" for instance (see recent comments listed).   

Well, Herr Himmler, whoever you are, why don't you start your own blog, and then I can troll it, like you have been trolling mine?  (Although of course I wouldn't because I never do.)

If you can't do that, then just bugger off and annoy someone else. 

Jocelyn and I are very sad.  You see our fellow dancers -- and fellow travellers -- Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon have now hung up their tights in frustration at John HoWARd's indifference to the arts in general and dance in particular.

Says Murphy:

 

"Funding bodies once dynamic now seem impotent in the face of a government's indifference to a force which could bring so much to the troubled culture of Australia's identity . . . How can the arts flourish in a society where war and sport take centre stage?"

I couldn' have put it better myself. 

And what does this artist-starving, baby-eating, bean-counting "government" have to say on the matter?

 

Federal Arts Minister Rod Kemp denied via a spokesman that "war and sport" had stolen the limelight from artists.

 

"In fact, the budget for 2006-07 for the arts alone is $652 million; for sport it is only $250 million," the spokesman said.

They just can't see that art isn't about money. 

Appalling.  Just appalling. 

Isn't it appalling that with half the world in flames because of his appallingly evil policies John HoWARd will still find time to try and dictate (and do mean DICK-tate) what we can and cannot watch. 

Peenie waver.