No Laughing Matter by Lev Butts
I generally try to stay out of politics on this blog as much as possible. I do enough ranting and raving on my private Facebook page that, to be fair, if the current administration was actually enforcing a pogrom on political dissidents, I'd already be calling dibs on the top bunk of a FEMA camp/artist "colony." To be fair, the medical care there is top notch, I hear. We even get first dibs on experimental treatments. However, after last week's release of Trump's budget proposal , especially it's elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities , I feel like I need to speak up. It's not even that I am surprised a conservative president wants to cut resources for these two programs, as far as I can tell, every conservative president since the programs were enacted fifty years ago has wanted to restrict their funding out of some kind of belief that supporting the arts does not add much to the country...