Detroit Red Wings Get New $400 Million Taxpayer-Financed Stadium While the City Goes Bankrupt

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2. And while they talk about selling off the Detroit Institute of Art's holdings

Mr. Frazzled and I were talking about the alarming and short-sighted proposal to sell off the holdings of DIA, collected over a century and one of the few beacons of culture that would help to maintain or attract employers, tourists, and residents in the city. It is economically unsound, as well as considered highly unethical for a museum to deaccession (sell off) works unless it is to buy new work.

Mr. Frazzle responded that they certainly weren't going to sell off assets of the Detroit Tigers. Little did we realize the Red Wings would be the recipients of the public largesse so quickly.

We live in a twisted society.

Somehow I feel that this (together with the many politician scandals of late, the inability to curb gun violence in even the smallest legislative way, military sexual harassment, etc.) is a function of our male-dominated, testosterone-driven society. Hockey, guns, sexual harassment ... it's all of a piece.

Let's even forget about Republicans and Democrats. We need more women ruling the world. The guns and hockey culture would shrink considerably.