“I am King-Ton. As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal commands.” [Crosses arms] “End communication.”


The Washington Post reports: [king-ton-small.jpg]

A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too “confrontational” and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

The statue is being made in China because, well, that`s where everything is being made these days.

[For the origin of the title quote, see here.]