When it comes to racism, you politically correct popinjays are the worst kind of racists. The two robots in question are not even black in colour. They may speak like hiphop stars and ‘don’t do much reading’, but how do their personalities refer to black people? I am sure …

Nicely written, but - wow, that bottom photo!

oooo.  thanks, i was not aware of this.  v. good to know.

I have three adult sons and was a young man myself once. We all did stupid things and didn’t get caught. But unless you are a young man of color, those who advocate for the lesser charge are missing a huge point. How many young men of color get …

If the campus setting deters you from Evo Cafe, you can also get bubble tea at Xinh Xinh Cafe (a Vietnamese restaurant near Urbana’s Schnucks grocery store).  They serve a variety of other drinks from southeast Asia.

Mike - I purely speculated that he might be fucked for life, if Rietz did the thing that seems to be the most rational: charge him to fit the crime with a felony for stealing and damaging a work of art, and doing it with intent to further damage …

You’re welcome, S. Potter! After spending a couple hours with Jesse and Abby last weekend, I was like, “Wow. This just makes sense (even though other media sources have painted a different picture).“

Anxious to read parts 2 & 3.

Good column, and good luck with this initiative. I have a hard enough time getting drivers to pay attention to me on a bike, and I’m moving faster, sometimes blinking, and typically at their eye level. Plus I’m sometimes wearing funning looking, tight clothing.

I typically fly out of Chicago for convenience and environmental reasons.  Since any flight I would take from Willard tends to stop in Chicago, it’s more efficient to take the train or carpool to Chicago.  Plus, I have heard several accounts of a flight delay from Willard to Chicago …

Mike: I wouldn’t personally pay $16.5K to $18.5K for a restored mid 70s Cadillac Eldorado convertible, but that doesn’t mean that those numbers aren’t the appraised value in the current market. Check the Christies site for the results of the May 13, 2009 auction (sale# 1997) and you will …

Thank you for this beautiful essay. Amen.

Some of the response to this seems a little overwrought. First, we should note Neppermann apologized in a letter to the N-G today, and claims no malicious intent of any sort.  Whether the apology was of his own volition or on advice of counsel doesn’t really matter that much. …

Thanks for a different angle on the story.

The University should take away Nepermann’s Fine & Applied Arts degree. Is there an article that discusses the previous occurrances of vandalism to these pieces?

We all get that a lot of people are upset here, but if you charge this thug with a felony and he’s convicted then you have an even bigger problem on your hands. It is nearly impossible to get a decent job, let along any job with a felony …

The Heap of Birds work is special for many reasons - independent of the fact that he has made similar work all over the world for decades and that many people deeply respect what he does - as these are not typical signs that one sees on a campus. …

But does anyone really believe these signs are worth six figures? Evidently some appraiser does, I guess.  Who’s willing to pony up the cash to establish a high enough market value for these things so the kid can really get what’s coming to him?  It’s no suprise that an …

When someone ties one on, blows through a stop sign, and plows into someone else with his/her car, he is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Did he mean to kill the other person? No, but he did nonetheless. Perhaps Mark Nepermann was too drunk to be cognizant of committing a …

It’s an interesting straw man argument, you got going her Rob.  Okay, so if people are saying it’s a hate crime, yeah, fine.  But there are two bigger issues going on here.  First, it’s this understanding that “art is judged by what it cost to manufacture it.“  We all …

When it comes to racism, you politically correct popinjays are the worst kind of racists. The two robots in question are not even black in colour. They may speak like hiphop stars and ‘don’t do much reading’, but how do their personalities refer to black people? I am sure …

Nicely written, but - wow, that bottom photo!

oooo.  thanks, i was not aware of this.  v. good to know.

I have three adult sons and was a young man myself once. We all did stupid things and didn’t get caught. But unless you are a young man of color, those who advocate for the lesser charge are missing a huge point. How many young men of color get …

If the campus setting deters you from Evo Cafe, you can also get bubble tea at Xinh Xinh Cafe (a Vietnamese restaurant near Urbana’s Schnucks grocery store).  They serve a variety of other drinks from southeast Asia.

Mike - I purely speculated that he might be fucked for life, if Rietz did the thing that seems to be the most rational: charge him to fit the crime with a felony for stealing and damaging a work of art, and doing it with intent to further damage …

You’re welcome, S. Potter! After spending a couple hours with Jesse and Abby last weekend, I was like, “Wow. This just makes sense (even though other media sources have painted a different picture).“

Anxious to read parts 2 & 3.

Good column, and good luck with this initiative. I have a hard enough time getting drivers to pay attention to me on a bike, and I’m moving faster, sometimes blinking, and typically at their eye level. Plus I’m sometimes wearing funning looking, tight clothing.

I typically fly out of Chicago for convenience and environmental reasons.  Since any flight I would take from Willard tends to stop in Chicago, it’s more efficient to take the train or carpool to Chicago.  Plus, I have heard several accounts of a flight delay from Willard to Chicago …

Mike: I wouldn’t personally pay $16.5K to $18.5K for a restored mid 70s Cadillac Eldorado convertible, but that doesn’t mean that those numbers aren’t the appraised value in the current market. Check the Christies site for the results of the May 13, 2009 auction (sale# 1997) and you will …

Thank you for this beautiful essay. Amen.

Some of the response to this seems a little overwrought. First, we should note Neppermann apologized in a letter to the N-G today, and claims no malicious intent of any sort.  Whether the apology was of his own volition or on advice of counsel doesn’t really matter that much. …

Thanks for a different angle on the story.

The University should take away Nepermann’s Fine & Applied Arts degree. Is there an article that discusses the previous occurrances of vandalism to these pieces?

We all get that a lot of people are upset here, but if you charge this thug with a felony and he’s convicted then you have an even bigger problem on your hands. It is nearly impossible to get a decent job, let along any job with a felony …

The Heap of Birds work is special for many reasons - independent of the fact that he has made similar work all over the world for decades and that many people deeply respect what he does - as these are not typical signs that one sees on a campus. …

But does anyone really believe these signs are worth six figures? Evidently some appraiser does, I guess.  Who’s willing to pony up the cash to establish a high enough market value for these things so the kid can really get what’s coming to him?  It’s no suprise that an …

When someone ties one on, blows through a stop sign, and plows into someone else with his/her car, he is charged with involuntary manslaughter. Did he mean to kill the other person? No, but he did nonetheless. Perhaps Mark Nepermann was too drunk to be cognizant of committing a …

It’s an interesting straw man argument, you got going her Rob.  Okay, so if people are saying it’s a hate crime, yeah, fine.  But there are two bigger issues going on here.  First, it’s this understanding that “art is judged by what it cost to manufacture it.“  We all …