I suspect you’ve heard that the statue of Joe Paterno outside the Penn State football stadium has been moved to “an undisclosed location,” apparently with Dick Cheney.

But, a lesser known statue is also being moved.  It has been in New York City for a long time.  The artist, who obviously couldn’t get a date to the prom, named it Civic Virtue.

Even before “Civic Virtue” was unveiled in 1922, there were protests against it. The immense statue, installed in City Hall Park, featured a naked, hulking man representing virtue, standing atop nude female figures, representing vice.

The folks in New York are arguing over where to put the damn thing. Some have suggested the entrance to the cemetery where the artist is buried, but others feel that it, like the artist, should both be displayed underground there.

I dunno, there has to be a good appropriate home for a statue where a man is standing on top of women in triumph with a large, phallic shaped object in his hand.

And I know where that place is.  That sucker belongs right in the smack dab middle of the rotunda at the Texas State Capitol.

I’m good at this appropriate art stuff and there is no better symbol of the Texas Lege than this.

I am told that the statue weighs 22 tons.  I am not in the least concerned about getting it moved to the Capitol.   Debbie Riddle and Leo Berman can just levitate it there on their palpitating thoughts of a transvaginal sonogram.

Thanks to Sandy for the heads up.