More than a little perplexed that the Observer’s Jim Morrill made today the day to run with a massive — just about an entire page including visuals — profile of Locke Foundation founder Art Pope. But, hey, pub is pub, right?

Me, I think the Ob just can’t get enough of Jim Black’s “Uncle Art is going to get you” quote. By my count the paper has deployed that one about a half-dozen times now since the May 2 primary.

I also think the Down East kleptocracy is a little scared and is trying to find friends the only way it knows how — with pork. Pork like a $44 million UNCC building Uptown and a car rental tax hike to fund the Wachovia Uptown Arts Complex. The Ob likes that pork and, by extension, the Black hegemony which manufactures it.

People who do not care for such things, well, they might just be tools of Uncle Art. Bye, now.