Come and have a larf at this absurd and strangely fascinating picture. I guarantee you won't be able to stop pointing your cursor at every single figure in it.

[HerBeatitude]

I've just wasted half an hour on this

That is one scary painting.

If you believe in evolution you are 'smug' apparently. (Yes, I know i'm being obtuse - deliberately so.)

One of the people in that picture went to the same school as me (or more correctly, I went to the same school as him, seeing as he is about 200 years older than me)
Thomas Payne, he was famous for signing the American declaration of independence or something like that.

Thomas Payne was the author of the rights of man, british and a hell of a lot more complicated than the painter suggests

McNaughton's picture rewritten...

ugh couldn't waster half an hour on it

oh carmen that's much better

lol at the barber shop quartet

Thanks for that Carmen, was feeling a bit queasy and the rewrite cheered me up!

Carmen - I was enjoying that when suddenly my server could not find the webpage. Interesting ...

the second version clears up the right wing shite nicely

that second one is quite funny. 'School teachers good, college professors bad. Look, even we don't know why'

Fabulous! Jesus looks like Willem Defoe's Jesus and I'm sure the painter wouldn't want to reference that!

Golly, he does take himself a tad seriously, doesn't he?

Love some states shining brighter than others - what on earth has poor Vermont done to deserve to be dimmed? Maybe it doesn't send enough people to the chair...?

oh, that is rather amusing.

The 'Continental Soldier' made me laugh. Off to have a look at the alternative one.

What aload of old rubbish!

i don't get why all the educated people in the front right are "facing away from god" though?
why should education mean you can't be close to god?
why would the artist be so scared of that?
it's weird.
i like the second one that Carmen pointed out: it basically says "you're fucked up McNaughton, you've twisted american history to suit your own weird argument"

that is fucked up.

KC had blue eyes though.

i don't think Jesus belongs in this picture, as 'the gospel demands the first radical revolution'

second one funny though.

anyone else watch the West Wing?

Oh Carmen that has toadally made my evening.

CybilLiberty: I don't know where Paris Hilton is - but there's quite a lot of room under the robe that guy in the middle's wearing.