The art critics of Hilliard

The right-wing Tea Party movement claims to be about freedom, but I don't think I've ever personally seen them take a stance that supports expanding liberty.

Where are their signs against the disastrous War on Drugs or the fascist Patriot Act? Why won't they speak out against Real ID or work-for-less laws? I don't think I've even seen them carrying signs supporting the Second Amendment - or the First.

And the Lipton Loudmouths also don't seem to be speaking out against the type of elitist tyranny unfolding in Hilliard, Ohio.

The zoning appeals board there has voted 6 to 1 to require a woman to remove a mural of a sunflower that she painted on her garage. The reason is that the mural has (drum roll, please) too many colors.

Gee, I thought these were supposed to be zoning officials, not art critics.

Coal mines owned by Bush cronies dump skillions of gallons of toxic slurry and manganese into Americans' water supplies, yet officials don't bat an eye at them. Yet officials go after somebody for a painting of a sunflower because they think it has too many colors?

How stupid.