Life Beyond Examining Saddam's Prostate

A profile of Ala Bashir, Saddam Hussein's personal physician and now a painter in New Haven... apparently he feels snubbed by the artistic establishment, or whatever passes for it in New Haven. Why did Yale take a pass? Well, frankly because the guy's not a very good artist. (I've seen his work at Corvus.) I can't imagine why anyone would pay the inflated prices being asked for his paintings, which as I recall are mainly birds and angels painted in tiresome and maudlin pastels, except for the novelty of owning something created by the same hands that examined Saddam's prostate.