"Legume merely said F*ck you" Yes, I did, and the person to whom I said it, Virus, publicly apologised to me afterwards. Yet YOU, who had nothing at all to do with the exchange, keep throwing it up as if I said it to YOU. I have NOT said it to you, but rest assured I certainly think it every time I see your name on my screen. And you STILL haven't shown where I threatened anyone.

Your check should be arriving shortly.

"I'm making perfect sense here." To you, maybe. "I object to people who make it a habit of abusing others." So do I. You should stop. "I object to knowing that Legume was "elected" AOM." That's how every AOM has ever been picked. Keep up your attacks, Ron, please. Artist of the Year will be arouind before you know it. "That means one whole month of that knowledge." Hmmm. I think I see your problem. Most folks retain knowledge longer than that. "I'd love to hear Legume say that he is sorry." OK. I'm sorry that you don't like my art. In the future, I suggest you exercise the optionm of not looking at it. "I'd love to hear him say that he was wrong with his hostility towards others, that others have a right to disagree, without being degraded or threatened." There you go, lying AGAIN. I never threatened anyone, and I'm sure if I ask you for proof, you'll just change the subject as you always do when called on your bullshit. "I'd love to see Legume remember who he was and what he did before he decided to embark on his latest crusades." I've always been posting art here that's controversial. There was no "before". "I doubt those wishes would ever be realized." And even if they were, you still wouldn't be satisfied, because that means you'd have to shut the hell up, which you have no plans to do.

Good enuff.

It seems to me that , just like you, wherever I go, there's always a few jerks hanging around waiting to complain about me. We have something in common after all.

"I suspect as well that you and your supporters managed to "stuff the ballot box" like you did with the Top20." Prove it. The admins here have no reason to want me as AOM. In fact, it's going to make their jobs hard, because of malcontents like you. In fact, I'd be willing to bet they checked REAL CLOSE to make sure that I won legitimately. The only stuffing that went on was them stuffing their votes in the box, expressing through their legit votes their opinion as to who they think should win. That's their right, just like it's yours. In the future, I encourage you to follow their lead; take your opinion and stuff it.

"Network television is usually considered about 5 or 10 years behind the times when it comes to what is socially acceptable (in language and behavior) But I don't think I would ever see his work on TV even in the next 10 years" Well, let's just examine that. Mad TV did a skit a few years ago where the Terminator goes back in time to stop Jesus from being crucified. Jesus kept having to bring Judas back to life because the Terminator kept killing him. At the end, Jesus is crucified, as the Terminator sits in the crowd saying, "He'll be back". Comedy Central shows South Park, where Jesus, Hitler, and any other cultural icon gets blasted all the time. Monty Python's Life of Brian. Self-explanatory. Mel Brooks' Hitler on Ice, The Producers, and Blazing Saddles. I guess because Brooks didn't depict Hitler in the approved light of "bad man", he must be anti-semitic. I imagine, as an anti semitic Jew, his life must be quite complex. And the fact that he used the word "nigger" throughout Blazing Saddles must mean that he hates blacks as well. Seems to me that I'm in pretty good company. It's not that my work is outrageous at all, really. The problem is that many of YOU are SERIOUSLY UPTIGHT. And you know what? I don't give a damn. The fact is, I'm here, my work is enjoyed by many people, and if you don't like it, tough shit. Don't look at it. The fact that some (a very few)of you would be so very happy to run me off and stop (the many)people who enjoy my work from seeing it shows YOU to be the kind of person who Renderosity doesn't need; a small group of self-appointed Saviors of the Community whose loud and incessant bleating is really irritating to people like me who come here to enjoy ourselves. What's your motivation? You all know there's only one person here named Legume, and you know goddamned well who I am. So if you look at my artwork and get offended, knowing who I am and what I do, you have absolutely no right to BITCH, any more than if you keep sticking your hand in fire over and over and crying about getting burned. And yet you do. Because that's WHY you look at it. You ENJOY the burn. You WANT something to complain about. If that's your motivation, then I feel really sorry for you and the sad, miserable lives you must lead. Why the hell don't you people just drop this crusade already, and let people make their own decisions about what they want to see or not see? For Christ's sake, you sound like a pack of old puritan grandmothers waving their bibles and screaming about women showing their ankles. If you're so upset that I'm artist of the month, maybe you should consider the LARGE part you played in getting me there.

Hmm. Just for giggles, I went and checked on Ron's assertion that "at least half of the people who left comments on your front page story agree with me". OK, when I checked, 47 comments. 35 were congratulating me. 7 were upset. 5 didn't say either way. OK, that's about half, I guess, if I use the new "Ron Math". OK, Ronny, wrap your head around this: if so many people agree with you, why did I win?

Kieraw, I'm familiar with that particular controversy, and I agree, It's STUPID AS HELL. The very idea that medical knowledge that could be used to save the living goes unused in deference to the dead is preposterous. Here's an interesting hypothetical situation for you. Let's say that "Saul Greenberg" was killed by Josef Mengele, and that Mengele discovered something during his experiments that would cure a horrible and painful disease, one with anal chancres and eyeball tumors, let's call it "Leguminosis". Because it was discovered by Mengele, the medical community isn't allowed to use the information, because it's "wrong". Later Saul Greenberg's grand-daughter "Dorothy" develops a terrible case of Leguminosis, and, because of the medical establishment's inability to use the research of Dr.Mengele, she is forced to live out the next 70 years in unspeakable agony. Using that research to end poor little Dorothy's pain would be WRONG, wouldn't it?

WHY should an artist's motives or political views even matter? If Atilla the Hun made really good fried chicken, does that mean it's not right to eat it? Please don't think I'm attacking Mongolians with this comment.

Thanks, Orphea. Now step back while I strut up to my high horse and do a victory lap around the site.

So, what you're saying is that it's wrong to depict Hitler AT ALL, even if it's in a ridiculous pinup where he's holding an armadillo? It's wrong to RIDICULE him? You condemn artwork that MAKES FUN OF HITLER? Now who's a Nazi? "I agree many people these days are oversensitive to what is not politically correct." Yes, that's true, and you are a prime example. You want to know what that 'free speech BS' is? That's any speech that YOU disagree with. I'm going to waste my time here and address your initial post once again. I want you to explain to me in exact terms, how my images depict HATE of Christians, Jews, or Gays. Never mind, DON'T BOTHER. In fact, why don't you just shut the hell up? Oh, wait, I forgot, you have FREEDOM OF SPEECH, don't you?

What can I say to that? Isn't that the way it's SUPPOSED to be? Isn't that just another way of saying, "since a whole bunch of people really seem to like it, I don't expect it to be removed at the request of a very few individuals who don't"?

I never said Darth Steve was gay, just flamboyant. There's a difference. You just ASSUMED he's gay because you bought into the stereotype YOURSELF.