Absurdity of the Week
Absurdity of the Week David Strom 7:20 PM | August 21, 2026 AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato I wish I could say you would only see something so absurd in San Francisco, but I happen to know that such idiocy happens throughout the United States at all levels of government. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); The U.S. pours enormous resources into the arts and culture, and the argument for doing so has a surface plausibility. After all, if you step back and take a look at the vast sweep of history, aside from the rise and fall of empires and various earthshaking events, what we actually know of and recall from history is the arts and architecture.
- ▪Absurdity of the Week David Strom 7:20 PM | August 21, 2026 AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato I wish I could say you would only see something so absurd in San Francisco, but I happen to know that such idiocy happens throughout the United States at all
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); The U.S. pours enormous resources into the arts and culture, and the argument for doin
- ▪After all, if you step back and take a look at the vast sweep of history, aside from the rise and fall of empires and various earthshaking events, what we actually know of and recall from history is the arts and architecture.
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| Original publisher | HotAir |
| Canonical URL | https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/08/21/absurdity-of-the-week-n3818241 |
| Publication time | Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:20:53 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-21T23:51:34.450Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-21T23:51:34.450Z |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Absurdity of the Week David Strom 7:20 PM | August 21, 2026 AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato I wish I could say you would only see something so absurd in San Francisco, but I happen to know that such idiocy happens throughout the United States at all levels of government. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); The U.S. pours enormous resources into the arts and culture, and the argument for doing so has a surface plausibility. After all, if you step back and take a look at the vast sweep of history, aside from the rise and fall of empires and various earthshaking events, what we actually know of and recall from history is the arts and architecture.
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