The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has blocked an attempt to move the retired battleship Iowa to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. I agree with Professor Volokh on this. There may be some perfectly reasonable arguments against supporting this tied to logistics or financing issues - but blocking what's likely to be a very popular museum piece just because a couple of people on the board don't like the war in Iraq or Don't Ask, Don't Tell is ridiculous.
Posted by armand at August 23, 2005 12:13 PM | TrackBack | Posted to CultureI saw this and thought it was idiotic. The Iowa is not so much a battleship as a floating piece of history. We don't get rid of history because it reminds us of "bad" politics; in fact, that's the purpose of history - to remind us what we did wrong, and learn so we don't do it again. You'd think San Francisco would appreciate those sort of sentiments.
Posted by: baltar at August 23, 2005 01:08 PM | PERMALINK