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Bare Art in the Woods

Phillip Cosby finds the exposed bosom of a sculpture in the Overland Park Arboretum so unappealing — or perhaps so appealing — that he wants someone prosecuted under Kansas’s obscenity laws. “We have a solid case on the harms to minors,” he says. Last year, Cosby got a grand jury to look into the matter, but it declined to issue an indictment. Cosby blames District Attorney Steve Howe: the grand jury didn’t even hear witnesses or spend a full day on the question. But now the law has changed, and Cosby, as the person who filed the petition to convene the grand jury, will have the right to address the panel and give it a list of experts. (AC/Kansas City Star) ...Someone should give him a list of experts on free speech.