This comes from the politically (dumb) correct archives of Boston.com:

Provincetown isn’t exactly Mayberry to begin with, if you know what I mean. But as the cold winds blow relentlessly down Commercial Street and the gray waves slap constantly against the shore, the isolation must lead to a total divorce from reality. Think Jack Nicholson in ”The Shining.”

How else to explain the bizarre behavior of a majority of the town’s selectmen at a meeting earlier this month?

To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed.

As Diane just pointed out, I hadn’t written WHY. Well, she wanted it removed because there were no women in the picture…

So here is another fine example of the stupidity and downright mean-ness of some people. What does an historical painting have anything to do with current government? I sure am glad the Mona Lisa belongs to the French, if it were here someone would be bitching that it’s a picture of a repressed woman who can’t vote … Selectwoman Sarah Peake, you need a dose of reality.

And this comes incidentally, just a day or two after Mel’s post about politically correct Christmas. (oops, can we say that word? does it have to be “seasonal celebration”?) Seems to me there are far too many humbuggers out there!