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The problem with trying to judge morals is that what passes as okay to one man might offend another.

After the massive and relentless purging Multiply did over the past few months -- sometimes surruptiously deleting members over the most trivial of 'offenses' -- I was concerned about some "images" I had used in previous blogs.

One was of an ancient Greek urn showing two nude males in a wrestling match and another was of Michelangelo's "David" which, as we all know, shows David in his altogether.

So... where does "art" rate on the scale of moral prudes?

Maybe you remember John Ashcroft's dust-up over the cast-aluminum statue in the Great Hall at the Justice Department back in the Bush years. John was so offended by the image of two naked breasts gracing the front foyer that he spent $8,000 of taxpayer money to buy draperies to cover up the immodesty of the "Spirit of Justice."

Well, Bush may be gone but moral prudes aren't.

Last week -- in the throes of a series of snow events -- one Rahway, New Jersey family took to the snow, as they often do, and sculpted some art. Most of us are just talented enough to build a snowman, but not these guys.

A year ago in January, they built a snow sculpture in the image of newly-inaugurated President Barack Obama. This year they went for something more classical: the famous Venus deMilo.

Ah... but while Venus may be classic, she's also nude.
And she drew visitors...
.... and attention.

Not all the attention was good, however.

Among the visitors was a patrolman dispatched to the Conneran household after Rahway police received an anonymous complaint "of a naked snow woman," said Sgt. Dominick Sforza.

She sure was, the family gleefully agreed.

"Curvaceous, bodacious and booty-licious," said Elisa Gonzalez, a court reporter who built the snow goddess with her daughter, Maria Conneran, 21 and son, Jack Shearing, 12.

"But she had a six-pack!" Conneran said.
New Jersey Today 3 March 2010

You can probably guess the rest.
Yes.... our buxom SNOW sculpture had to wear a bikini top and bottom.

I mean,does this look ridiculous or what?

I swear.... I sometimes don't know what to make of my countrymen.

I'm tempted to build a snowman using a carrot for ... well, you know what... just to see how long it takes for someone to take umbrage and report it to police.

I mean, I suppose I could then just adorn him with a really big jockstrap, dontcha think?

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