Things that make me smile: The John Ashcroft Snow
Globe, brought to us by an irreverent artist.

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Remember America before Homeland Security? Before racial profiling
became
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the norm? When our streets, homes and offices were safe and our civil
liberties still free?

Attorney General John Ashcroft is the symbol of a new patriotism, an
America where civil liberties are now personal liabilities; a land of
hollow security and mounting intolerance.

Each snow globe, hand-sculpted and hand-assembled by artists, comes with a
windup music movement of “White Christmas,” a bust of the Attorney General
in ivory resin and, of course, white snow.