Burning Man festival gets OK for larger crowd

Commentary by: Gordon King
I don’t know about you, but this looks more like idol worship to me.  Celebration of a false god.  The “fire god”?  I wonder if most of these people even know what they are doing?

Participants watch the flames from El Pulpo Mecanico during the Burning Man 2012 “Fertility 2.0” arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada

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Burning Man, the annual outdoor arts festival near Reno, Nev., has been given permits for 68,000 people to attend this year.

RENO, Nev. — The largest outdoor arts festival in North America is about to become bigger.

Federal land managers have issued Burning Man organizers a four-year special recreation permit that allows a peak population of 68,000 on the northern Nevada desert this year.

Last year, attendance at the offbeat art and music festival on the Black Rock Desert peaked at some 53,000 — well below the previous maximum allowable population of 60,900.

The festival will be held Aug. 26-Sept. 2.