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Artist's Chocolate Jesus Gets Cadbury Makeover

A New York art gallery has decided to cancel an exhibit of a chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ after protests by a US Christian group. The six-foot (1.8m) sculpture, entitled "My Sweet Lord," depicts a naked Jesus Christ with his arms outspread.

The sculpture, by Canadian-born artist Cosimo Cavallaro, was to have been displayed beginning Monday at Manhattan's Lab Gallery. He is known for using food ingredients in his art, on one occasion painting a hotel room in mozzarella cheese.

The Roger Smith Hotel housing the Lab gallery decided to cancel the exhibition after the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for a boycott. The hotel and the gallery were overrun Thursday with angry phone calls, e-mails, and death threats regarding the exhibit, said the gallery's artistic director.

Mr Cavallaro expressed disappointment with the decision to close his exhibit, but used the opportunity to announce his agreement to have his chocolate Jesus remolded into a special-edition Cadbury Creme Egg^®.

The new confection, inaugurating the UK candy company's 2007 "How do you like your Jesus" marketing campaign, will feature miniature versions of "My Sweet Lord" on a bed of green plastic grass and includes the characteristic white and yellow fondant filling.

The American Christian Coalition for an All-Candy Easter applauded the decision.

Satire using a shortened, loosely re-written news article published in BBC News, Saturday, March 31, 2007. See also the AP news article and news video.

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More Calls for Cheney-Bush Impeachment

One thing that keeps the Cheney-Bush presidency from the bull's eye of justice is that these two guys just keep making more scandals. Just when you think one is enough to put them in jail, still another surfaces. Justice could get dizzy trying to get these guys to stay still long enough for a trial.

Impeachment is not off the table.¹ New York City attorney and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman has another short, compelling statement on the impeachment option in the web version of this month's Foreign Policy. John Nichols did the same in an op-ed in yesterday's Capital Times (Wisconsin). Here's a short, select list of other pieces on the impeachment option:

This is just a smattering of pieces: there are many more. You can start with Impeach Bush for Peace and Impeach Bush. The Cheney-Bush impeachment option seems no longer to be something that will be left in the hands of Congress.

1.  See "Pelosi: Bush Impeachment 'Off the Table'," New York Times, November 8, 2006.

You too can own a war!

If you didn't like Friday's House vote on House Bill HR 1591—the US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act, 2007 (otherwise called Making emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes)—you can send your "representative(s)" their very own Certificate of Ownership and Warranty, courtesy of Military Families Speak Out:

 

If that's just too bold for you, then get the pair for yourself. So long as our tax dollars go toward funding the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the never-to-end war on Global Terrorism, we all own a piece of them. I think that's going to be true even if they're financed with money borrowed from China and other offshore purchasers of the US Treasury.