Recreational outrage w/pointless nudity.
Aug. 23rd, 2004 03:09 pmNormally, I try not to illustrate material that's just too jaw-droppingly stupid for words, but I can't help illustrate this little gaffe in a small newspaper called The Forward. In a rather silly article entitled, "We're All Pagans Now," in which David Klinghoffer says he started to worry about "the paganization" of our culture when he came across a circle of Wiccans daring to have a ceremony in a public park and proclaims that the end of America is nigh if we don't have a single god to rally 'round, he also drops this little treasure about the Olympics: "The games, which got started in 776 B.C., were banned by the Christian emperor Theodosius in 393 BCE on the grounds that they were an offense to the God of biblical monotheism."
Faaaaascinating. So Theodosius was a "Christian Emperor" four centuries before (that's what the 'B' in BCE stands for) the beginning of the common calendar, which supposedly begins at Jesus's birth. Where's Mr. Klinghoffer's editor when he needs him?
I suspect Klinghoffer was using the CE designation because he's writing for what is nominally a Jewish weekly and so is uncomfortable with the Anno Domine label, and just screwed up. But it's a silly mistake.
Hey, if we're all Pagans and sodomites now, what're all the right-wingers complaining about anyway?
Much less amusing-- in fact, downright shocking but not unsurprising-- is this article in The Muslim Soldier, the Saudi Arabian equivalent of the U.S. Army's Army Times. In an article entiled "Know Your Enemy," the article includes such tidbits as "Jews started both World Wars," "Jews control all of Europe," "Jews cause almost all coup d'etats," and so forth. In the U.S., this stuff appears in whackjob pamphlets, the distributors of which are often quickly identified and laughed at. In the Middle East, this stuff appears in official government newspapers.
And back to the silly stuff. Omaha will get a kick out of this since she reviewed the horrible game a couple of months ago on her radio show: the character of Rayne from BloodRayne will be naked in next month's Playboy. Fanboys rejoice!
And no, no, a thousand times no... okay, stick it in. Political Theory, a daily aggregator blog of politics from 50,000 feet. This goes along nicely with my other aggegator sites. Another time-eater.
Faaaaascinating. So Theodosius was a "Christian Emperor" four centuries before (that's what the 'B' in BCE stands for) the beginning of the common calendar, which supposedly begins at Jesus's birth. Where's Mr. Klinghoffer's editor when he needs him?
I suspect Klinghoffer was using the CE designation because he's writing for what is nominally a Jewish weekly and so is uncomfortable with the Anno Domine label, and just screwed up. But it's a silly mistake.
Hey, if we're all Pagans and sodomites now, what're all the right-wingers complaining about anyway?
Much less amusing-- in fact, downright shocking but not unsurprising-- is this article in The Muslim Soldier, the Saudi Arabian equivalent of the U.S. Army's Army Times. In an article entiled "Know Your Enemy," the article includes such tidbits as "Jews started both World Wars," "Jews control all of Europe," "Jews cause almost all coup d'etats," and so forth. In the U.S., this stuff appears in whackjob pamphlets, the distributors of which are often quickly identified and laughed at. In the Middle East, this stuff appears in official government newspapers.
And back to the silly stuff. Omaha will get a kick out of this since she reviewed the horrible game a couple of months ago on her radio show: the character of Rayne from BloodRayne will be naked in next month's Playboy. Fanboys rejoice!
And no, no, a thousand times no... okay, stick it in. Political Theory, a daily aggregator blog of politics from 50,000 feet. This goes along nicely with my other aggegator sites. Another time-eater.
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