December 12, 2010
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Memory

Frank Rich reminds us that the Republicans have forced the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz’s Fire In My Belly from an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.

This morning’s Globe reports that GOP Senator Scott Brown has received $140M in “donations” from banks who want to block regulations. What a country!

David Wojnarowicz also wrote When I Put My Hands On Your Body, the concluding lines of which were quoted in Blade Runner and have become one of the iconic moments in modern science fiction:

All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain.