Spongebob maligned! Also: art

It’s not often I read about a former employer in a national magazine, highlighted in a feature article in this month’s Washington Monthly. Of course, I worked a couple of summers through college doing “design” at Arthur Andersen, long before the troubles.

First it was Tinky-Winky. Now radical right-wing group Focus on the Family outs Spongebob Squarepants.

And then there’s the equally vocal Parents Television Council, a group responsible for 99.9% of FCC complaints.

What [FCC chair Michael] Powell did not reveal—apparently because he was unaware—was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
99.8% of 240,000 complaints, that is

Slightly disturbing VW car bomber video.

Speaking of slightly disturbing, why not plop a Visa card down on this work entitled “Mortie in my Thoughts.”