Mark Steyn’s latest is not to be missed. Here is:
Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week
…Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: “This incident,” he mused, “reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s delay in informing Massachusetts authorities about his role in the fatal automobile accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969.”
Hmm. Let’s see. On the one hand, the guy leaves the gal at the bottom of the river struggling for breath pressed up against the window in some small air pocket while he pulls himself out of the briny, staggers home, sleeps it off and saunters in to inform the cops the following day that, oh yeah, there was some broad down there. And, on the other hand, the guy calls 911, has the other fellow taken to the hospital, lets the sheriff know promptly but neglects to fax David Gregory’s make-up girl!
One can only hope others agree with Ignatius’ insightful analogy, and that the reprehensible Cheney will be hounded from public life the way Kennedy was all those years ago. One would hate to think folks would just let it slide and three decades from now this Cheney guy will be sitting on some committee picking Supreme Court justices and whatnot…
Sweeeeeeet.
What’s there to add? Steyn pretty much says it all. But these political cartoons may help:
Cartoon 1 and Cartoon 2.
I guess it’s worth noting the irony of the pressure for the newspapers to shut up. I just heard another story: Two editors of a University of Illinois student paper were suspended after printing a couple of the infamous cartoons. All my life, I’ve heard story after story of student papers printing the most disgusting and outrageous material, and this is the first time in memory I’ve ever heard of an editor being suspended as a result. In the past, as noxious as it was, it always ended up as a freedom of speech thing. This truly is unprecedented. (I’m sure if you dig deep enough, you’ll find some stories of suspended editors, because nothing is truly unprecedented, but anyone who has lived through the era understands the essential truth of my statement.)
How are we supposed to react to such systematic insanity? Indeed, some of us most be questioning our own sanity at times, seeing as how our fundamental institutions are failing to acknowledge the threat to our most cherished values. Have they all gone blind? Or am I delusional myself? It’s a frustrating era. There has always been evil in the world, and sometimes we cannot effectively oppose that evil, but we’re truly lost when we’re no longer allowed even to point at that evil.
Another question jumped into my mind, and this may sound stupid, but the question is serious (in a stupid way). You eBay mavens have noticed a regular trickle of “Jesus on toast” offerings by people who found an image of Jesus on their toast. Here’s one and here’s another and here’s one all the way from England, just by way of example. Search on keywords “Jesus” and “toast” in the current and completed listings, and you’ll find more! So…where are the Mohammed on toast sales? I don’t find any, either from the past or the present! Nor do I find anyone posting their own Mohammed drawings, nor any pictures of Mohammed. Very suspicious! I mean, seriously, with all the millions of clowns in the world selling their clownish stuff online — and you eBay watchers know what I’m talking about — WHERE ARE THE MOHAMMED PICTURES AND TOASTS AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF??? ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!! Seriously, I suspect eBay is blocking this category. Who wants to list a Mohammed picture and see what happens? Somebody try it!
And while I’m ranting…WHERE’S THE MOHAMMED ACTION FIGURE??? We’ve seen everybody mocked by these stupid action figures except Mohammed! Why does Mohammed have a special exemption? Who died and made him god? I found that somebody else had already researched the question of available religious action figures: Check out this article, Fruitless Search for Mohammed Action Figure Reveals Self-Censorship in Toy and Novelty Industry.
I love it! You go Horse!
Let it all hang out, Horse. Sometimes you just gotta vent. It can be very frustrating watching the insanity of the world go by. All part of the death of right and wrong and woe when we call evil good and good evil.