BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Dismantling a perfectly good memorial

A memorial to Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs has been dismantled in St Petersburg after the man who succeeded him at the helm of the company, Tim Cook, came out as gay. The 2-metre-high monument, in the shape of an iPhone, was erected outside a St Petersburg college last January by a Russian group of companies called ZEFS. Citing the need to abide by a law combating "gay propaganda", ZEFS said in a statement on Monday that the memorial had been removed on Friday - the day after Apple CEO Cook had announced he was homosexual. "In Russia, gay propaganda and other sexual perversions among minors are prohibited by law," ZEFS said, noting that the memorial had been "in an area of direct access for young students and scholars". "After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the monument was taken down to abide to the Russian federal law protecting children from information promoting denial of traditional family values." That law is stupid, and besides the fact that Cook prefers cock (excuse the pun), a statue of an iPhone is hardly considered to be gay propaganda. It is a useful device which has games, office applications, an alarm clock, a web browser, a camera, basically whatever crap you want to put on it. And Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was not gay.