Tasty Links

Ever wonder what would happen if Ann Coulter, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or that chick from the Vagina Monologues ran the NEA? The LA Time sure does! The interviewees actually run a pretty fair polemical spectrum on the pertinent issues surrounding the government's arts agency. Most telling are: the varieties of opinions on whether the NEA should resume and increase grants to individual artists, or continue the fairly fresh policy of granting primarily to institutions and organizations. In a close second, the fearful rampancy of the delusion that rolls of benjamins can convince the American public that art has any kind of common relevance. No one trusts your voice? Buy a megaphone!

Speaking of wacky ideas, what reservation is Stanley Fish on and where the hell is he wandering?

Thanks to Slate Magazine's David Plotz, who drops the bombshell that "OMG guys I just realized the Bible is the foundation of the past 2,000 years of our Judeo-Christian Western culture!!!!"

Lastly, a pair of interesting pieces on the rise and fall of the dueling Volkschus, Adidas and Puma from ESPN's Soccernet and Das Spiegel!