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this artist ... could have saved herself a bit of embarrassment and the taxpayers a bit of money
We all agree, myself included, tsuwm, that the artist bears some responsibility for what happened, but why is everyone so inattentive to the larger share of responsibility here? That is what perplexes me, truly.
In law, there is a concept known as "contributory negligence". It recognizes that in the real world there is often a combination of mistakes or failures which leads to a particular pecuniary loss.
This is not a complex, legalistic notion. It is a common sense notion arising from ordinary, everyday experience.
If a traffic cop leaves his post at a intersection for an unauthorized coffee break during rush hour, and an accident occurs while he is absent, is the cop without blame for the accident?
If he had been doing his job as he was paid to do, there wouldn't have been an accident.
If the Livermore library adminstration had been doing its job in first approving and then overseeing Maria's work, or if they had just carried out one of these customary duties and not both, the spelling mistakes in question would never have occurred.
Their failures cost the taxpayers of Livermore $6,000.
Why are we so eager to make a scapegoat of Maria?
That's the part I just don't get, tsuwm.
Why turn a blind eye to the failures of the establishment?
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I don't recall anyone here making arguments exonerating the administrators; but one person has gone way over the edge in attempting to forgive the Artiste. see, that's a big problem in today's culture. no one is willing to take personal responsibility for anything. blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracy. oops, I had better add a  , lest someone think I'm being serial.
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but the people who should bear the primary responsibility for this are too busy dumping on Maria to accept any blame for themselves.
Well they are the ones footing the bill to have the corrections done.
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see, that's a big problem in today's culture. no one is willing to take personal responsibility for anything. blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracy.
Amen.
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blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracy
Exquisitely put. And indeed, a lesson to be learned.
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blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracy
Exquisitely put. And indeed, a lesson to be learned.
Hey, great idea! Where do I sign up? I love to blame others for my mistakes.
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see, that's a big problem in today's culture. no one is willing to take personal responsibility for anything. blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracyWhy, tsuwm, you must have been reading "Confessions of an Heirhead". May I use you for a testimonial? Some people think it's just for "Heirheads".
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Shoot. No one wants to address my question. Oh well, I guess I'll just tidy up some of the linguistic detritus left behind by some of the posters to this thread and then move on. " To be perfectly frank, I'm glad themilum has found a new soundboard for her exotic opinions. But I don't want themilum to wear her new soundboard out too soon" Exotic opinions? What's exotic about logical extensions , grapho? Repeat after me... The government should not legislate language. The government should not legislate culture. The government should not legislate religion. The government should legislate Art. A strange sequence, huh, grapho, exotic even, but a sequence held only by a misguided few. Certainly not me. And hey, while I've got you on the horn, what the heck did you mean by this? (to jheen) " ...I'm glad themilum has found a new soundboard for her exotic opinions. But I don't want themilum to wear her new soundboard out too soon. Is this just secret talk between you and jheem? If so I'll hang up. But if it was intended for the larger group can you please be a little more coherent and forthcoming and explain to we the other posters exactly what you meant. Thank you. "themilum is maleum." Dear Wordwind, If you must expose my hidden maleness to the voyeuristic world at large please be klnd and say - themilum is much maleum - instead. Thank you. Now for a test... Which of the four following words in blue is different from the other three words in blue and is included in this sequence only as an emotive buzz-word to rally the True Believers? " ...blame all problems on some invisible committee, cabal, cult or conspiracy " Right, gang, the knee-jerk word is conspiracy 
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Honestly, themilum, I don't see your point about government legislating art. How is that part of the argument? The issue is not the aesthetics of the artwork, and it isn't being legislated anyway. It was artwork commissioned by the city. The complaint about government imposing weird art that appeals to snobs only doesn't fly either. As far as art goes, it is a quite conventional, representative sort of artwork that depicts historical figures for the purpose of edifying viewers. That's not exactly avante garde stuff.
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Alex said: ______________________________________________________ "Honestly, themilum, I don't see your point about government legislating art. How is that part of the argument? The issue is not the aesthetics of the artwork, and it isn't being legislated anyway. It was artwork commissioned by the city. The complaint about government imposing weird art that appeals to snobs only doesn't fly either. As far as art goes, it is a quite conventional, representative sort of artwork that depicts historical figures for the purpose of edifying viewers. That's not exactly avante garde stuff." _____________________________________________________ Quite true, Alex, but I assumed that the thoughts exchanged here would go beyond assigning blame and lamenting the misspellings; discussing root cause of such hokey doings is what grown men and women do rather than laugh and whine. To be clear - I like some of Maria's art and I consider myself a bit of a pretentious art snob, but go yourself and walk around any city of any size worthy of its two Wal-marts and check out the objets d' art scattered around and about the public buildings and then come back and tell me of your enthusiasm. Yes, Alex, Maria's artwork wasn't legislated but rather it was commissioned by the city. "Commissioned" of course means "given the approval to undertake a particular act of art". Paid for, of course, by the hardworking taxpayers of the city. Sadly, much of the art of today is a con game, and when that art is commissioned by the committees of our government, everyone's money supports the scam. 
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To be clear - I like some of Maria's art and I consider myself a bit of a pretentious art snob, but go yourself and walk around any city of any size worthy of its two Wal-marts"To be clear" - I've got to hand it to you, themilum, that's a good opening - but in spite of the fact that there is nothing awfully clear about anything you say, at least to a terrestrial observer, I almost get it. That's what really shakes me up, themilum, I almost get it. Are you a man or a woman? If you're a woman, I think you're kinda cute. [You are definitely 'way out there' -- and that can be cute in a woman.] If you're a man, I would like to introduce you to tsuwm, or maybe etaoin. I think you guys would hit it off -juxtapositionally, that is.
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>I think you guys would hit it off. that does it - I think I'm going to hire a hit man.
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I think I'm going to hire a hit manWhen I've finished my present contract, I'll make you a present of my services.
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When I've finished my present contractWe don't "wack" people any more, we "finish" them. It's a matter of professional courtesy.
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It's a matter of professional courtesyIn our line of work, we could get finished ourselves before we finish the job.
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Sunday Chicago Tribune, 17 October: "Iz eet stil art iph its speld incorectlee?" City manager has convinced Maria to correct it. Maria, "I really want people to see the work's meaning so they stop making issues of things that are unimportant." Corrections will be made when "the issue cool(s) down. I'm not racing out there right away ..."
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