Recent Comments
Re: “Smaller venues have jitters about proposed RBTL theater”
It doesn't require a Ouija board, tarot cards or tea leaves to guess the future of the latest addition to Rochester's long and sorry string of ill-conceived civic "improvement" projects. First, the new theater will be hyped to death by our elected officials and the local media, even though no viable business case will be found. Then, it will be built (going over budget in the process) amid claims of all the Big Broadway productions it will bring to town. Next it will open to great fanfare. And then after a year or so, after a small handful of actual shows are put on, usage of the theater will drop to maybe 30 or 40 days a year, while maintenance costs greatly exceed what its backers claimed they would be. Then finally, after the taxpayers have taken another massive hit, a committee will be appointed to find a new use for the underutilized facility. How about we save time and just throw about $20,000,000 into the river now?
Re: “Feedback 5/16”
BARBARA LACKER-WARE - Political philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote that, "Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing." So it is with attempting to blame all whites for the existence of racism, systemic or otherwise. By blaming the many, you let the few who are actually to blame for institutionalizing and maintaining racism escape from their well-deserved identification and exposure, AND you create such a monumental monolith of mass guilt that the vast majority of the populace see an insurmountable problem and simply throw up their hands.
Re: “A Starbucks grande plan for reducing racism”
This is a PR move on Starbucks' part. Nothing more, nothing less. They see an opportunity to bamboozle their pretentious customers and make many bucks doing it. If they thought they could make more money by implementing a Chick fil-A-style policy of discrimination, they would do that instead.
Re: “Call for artists: racist carousel panel to be replaced with a black panther”
Steve W - I'm sure the African-American community really appreciates some oblivious white guy telling them what they should and shouldn't be offended by. Maybe next you can lecture women on how THEY should react to gender discrimination.
Re: “Candidates file for Congressional races”
Tom Kidera - I find your criticism of Jan confusing. No where did she say that she opposed Barnhart on grounds of gender. So why bring it up? It's a red herring issue.
Re: “Candidates file for Congressional races”
Jan and Animule - You two nailed it! Like Demagogue Donny, Barnhart figures that her name recognition and ego are sufficient credentials to run for high political office without having to start at the bottom like Louise and we other mere mortals. You have to wonder how many more times she (and her supporters) will have to get slammed down before she (and they) take the hint. Personally, it looks to me like Morelle in a walk.
Re: “Rochester artists, arts groups discuss funding options”
Sorry, but Rochester's artists and art scene lost all credibility when they acquiesced in the Memorial Art Gallery's unfathomable decision to hire Tom Otterness, the notorious animal abuser (and outsider to boot), to construct cutsey statuary for their Centennial Garden.