Gratuitous Modesty No More

Nor more erotic than Porky Pig without his pants, two statues that grace the floor of the Great Hall in the Justice Department in Washington D.C. have been unwrapped.

When new Attorney General Alberto Gonzales replaced John Ashcroft in this position, he also undraped the two statues, The Spirit of Justice, created with one breast exposed, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law.

These statues have been on display for 70 plus years, but Ashcroft took exception with the aluminum-cast breast displayed on The Spirit of Justice, and for good measure, covered up the same male chest you see on the beach or at the ballgame – which is exposed on the Majesty of Law statue.

Tit for tat, so to speak.

It only cost $8000 for these modesty drapes, a mere drop in the bucket to Ashcroft, but the covered “chests” cost Ashcroft in other ways: he was the butt of jokes for his puritanical prudery about statue nudity.

To many Americans and most of the world, he was the one that looked like a boob.

Apparently Gonzales does not share the fear of the mammary gland and the statues are free once again to be as they were created.

Let us all raise our voices and our shirts high that we are now back again to the 1930s!

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