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pasquin

Does the Onion Know?

Aug 20, 2009 08:12

Remember those images of Muhammad that lead to riots and mass death in the Middle East? Sure you do. Though you’ll probably not remember what the cartoons actually looked like because newspapers, magazines, and cable news seldom showed them. But you heard about it. Well, the definitive tome about this controversy is coming out in November. It’s ( Read more... )

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zarex August 20 2009, 13:23:27 UTC

I cannot believe how incredibly pussified Yale has become. I would be ashamed to go there.

Gore Went there, is he? pasquin August 20 2009, 13:29:40 UTC

The author's original title (as you may know, writer's don't get to choose their titles, just suggest) was "The little drawings that changed to world". With the emphasis on 'little'. As in, how could such trivial things lead to such a big result.

The book might be fine; I don't know. But the irony is killer.

Re: Gore Went there, is he? zarex August 20 2009, 13:52:40 UTC

Nope, but Dubya went there before Harvard.

Great Slate article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2225504/

also Volokh's take:

http://volokh.com/posts/1250623296.shtml

The terrorists won!

Re: Gore Went there, is he? pasquin August 20 2009, 14:24:12 UTC

Christopher Hitchens is like a warm reason-knife through cold bullshit.

Religions of the world: blow shit up and get your way! Alert the Pope.

visp August 21 2009, 02:57:46 UTC

It really pissed me off. There was a picture of one of the protests, and there was a man holding a sign saying "No one has the right to make fun of Islam". I was like, "The fuck we don't! Y'all can do whatever you like in your country, but here we make fun of everything we damn well please. It may be rude or in bad taste, but people can still do it."

pasquin August 21 2009, 11:37:38 UTC

And they only killed other Muslims - how stupid is that? Apparently this was a contrived controversy for internal political purposes. Yet, the Ivy League is convinced if they fart wrong, Hajis die.

visp August 22 2009, 01:34:44 UTC

I think they just need to take up Soccer - like South America. That way, every time they feel the urge to start screaming "Yalalalalala" in the streets, they can do it over a winning game, or a bad ref call, or something else that doesn't involve bothering the whole damn world about.