CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to TOM WALKER:

CA> Fortunately the sale of his website encouraged others to start up
CA> similar websites and now there are many places where unknowns can 
CA> offer there 'art' to the public.

Strikes me as a good way for people to find out if there's any interest in
what they have to offer.  One of the good things about the web,  I guess.

CA> If the US government wasn't so preocuppied with oil from outside 
CA> our own boundaries they might have a few pesos to spend to 
CA> encourage the arts in the ways the gov does in Japan.

I don't care what they do in Japan (their government is *way* too
paternalistic for my tastes),  "the arts" isn't a legitimate
function of government,  as far as I'm concerned.  If there's something
that people have to offer,  and if there's enough of a real demand for it, 
then those people should be able to make that connection and become
successful without the use of tax dollars to do so.

CA> We (Americans) will be remembered along with Atila the Hun, Ghengis 
CA> Kahn, and other despoilers of other people's countries.

I've no argument about the fact that we have armed forces in way too many
places outside the US...

CA> I'm surprised we haven't burned the Library of Congress to the 
CA> ground as their predecessors did the library in Alexandria.

Heh.

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