So, evidentally there's some nuclear hissy fit being thrown over artwork featuring underage mythical creatures, which in itself is a rather interesting concept and one which no doubt has been the topic of many a UN debate. I personally have, in my many months here, seen dozens, nay hundreds of pictures that do not fall into this category at all; by a quick estimate, I'd say 100%. And regardless of the decision announced hours from now, I expect that ratio to remain roughly unchanged.

But it is a serious and divisive topic, so as a service to my...dozen...or so watchers and whoever passes by this page for the next year or so since that's how frequently I update, and since this topic has more than sufficiently been beaten to death in the forums by people whose shit seems equally divided between "give" and "don't give," I would like to offer five more points in regard to this subject that I think are being overlooked.

1. If we deprive the people who really want "cub" art of it here, they'll only learn to draw it themselves. Then they'll draw "normal" stuff at cons and donate all the money to terrorist organizations, who will force us to buy cub art and hang it over the mantle next to our grandmother's ashes. It's a fictional dystopia, but I fear it.

2. What about the cubs who have only ever posed nude? What are they supposed to do for a living now that that market has literally and figuratively dried up? I don't suppose you've ever witnessed the heartbreak and pain of the cold, dead stare of a former model reduced to vacuuming the carpets at Denny's, have you?

3. George Washington, when he wasn't busy hemp farming or being the President of the United States of America used to spend his evening downloading hundreds of gigabites of cub art. Don't we hate this great American enough already? Do we really have to piss all over the flag further?

4. The only reason the Corwin Amendment wasn't ratified in 1861, explicitly permitting nude images of things that do not exist, was because Newt Gingrich refused to sign it after he had to fly in the baggage compartment on Air Force One. Fucking Georgia.

5. Had Pontius Pilate had access to high speed DSL instead of dial up, he would have had access to this and would have been too busy to study, then he would have failed his police test, and Jesus Christ would still be alive today.

So, so...so just think about that when you're at the polls this Tuesday.