Art Lessons

Yes, we heard that when cousin Ralph was young he won art contests and was very talented. His parents greatly discouraged his art ambitions for various stereotypical reasons and the result was that what they feared most became a reality and Ralph turned gay and also he never did very much with art, just managed a Taco Bell after getting out of the Navy before dying of AIDS. Lots of talented artists could easily find honest work in today's visually oriented culture, I mean, like, someone has to draw those Veggie Tales cartoons, but anyway Ralph's parents did not allow him to develop his God-given talents for not really any good reason except that they are kind of ignorant and primitive. Reviewing Ancestry.com we learn that Uncle Art was from Iowa so I guess that explains it. Some of the most obnoxious people I know are from Iowa and anyway the only president ever from Iowa was Herbert Hoover, that one-term Republican, so we should not be surprised to learn that Uncle Art did not have a clue about art.