What possessed these idiots to display the darn thing in the first place? The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, a museum of the Smithsonian Institution, announced today that it will remove from one of its exhibitions a video that includes images of ants swarming over Jesus Christ on a crucifix, but will keep in place images of naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, a painting of a male nude that the Smithsonian itelf describes as "homoerotic," and a painting made with nail polish and the cremated ashes of a man with AIDS who committed suicide.The video that showed the crucifix crawling with ants also showed a man's nude frontal image, a mouth being sewn shut, bowls of blood, and mummified humans.The left calls this "manufactured outrage." OK, fine. Just don't call it "art." It doesn't take much manufacturing to question whether a federally funded gallery has any idea what constitutes "art." Poor...(Read Full Post)