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Imagine How You Will Look in 40 Years

The Washington Post reports that Mitt Romney bullied a student in the prestigious Cranbrook School in 1965.

[Romney] spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

A photo of a gay marine kissing his partner upon coming home has gone viral, with more than 14,000 likes on Facebook and more than 3,000 comments. Brandon Mogan, wrote the following about the response to the photo: “To everyone who has responded in a positive way. My partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can’t believe how many shares and likes we have gotten on this.”

I think this picture symbolizes the freedom that Mr. Morgan fought for.

In addition to this freedom, it appears that when it comes to the App store, Apple is also editing suggestive artistic work as well.  Below is an example.  Click to enlarge.

Before

After

…but Apple’s policies aren’t limited to the love that dare not draw it’s form, they also hate the female shape.

Here is the original sketch from a work entitled Ulysses Seen.

Illustrator Robert Berry offered several alternatives, such as pixelating the breasts or covering them with fig leaves, the only solution Apple deemed appropriate was the one seen below.

[via Gizmodo The Big Money NY Times]