Archive for the 'Holocaust' Category
Heh, “Cartoonist-American”
Posted on June 22, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Art Spiegelman, Holocaust, comics, the media | Leave a Comment
I’m having trouble imagining a feature in the Sunday Post that would appeal to me more directly than this one: Art Spiegelman, pioneering comic artist and author of Maus, writes and draws a feature about the St. Louis refugee ship and ends up making a point about our modern immigration policies- not to mention the [...]
Obama At Buchenwald
Posted on June 5, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust | Leave a Comment
I can’t seem to find anything articulate to say here (although I’m obviously pleased to see the president pay his respects). I do have three brief and somewhat silly (in comparison to the gravity of where Obama was) thoughts:
1) For reasons I can’t quite explain, I really like that Elie Wiesel quoted The Plage in [...]
Former Hitler Youth Supports Holocaust Denier, World Reacts In Shock
Posted on January 26, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Holocaust, Pope Benedict XVI, religion | Leave a Comment
Seriously, am I supposed to be shocked and appalled to see the Pope end the excommunication of a Holocaust denying bishop? I’ve been calling this guy “Pope Goebbels” since the cardinals elected him a few years ago. He was in the Hitler Youth!
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When I Said Before That I Spent The Day Obsessing Over Stupid Shit, This Is Mostly What I Meant
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under FOX News, Holocaust, World War II | Leave a Comment
If this is true, FOX News has gone way past the line of… advocating war and torture? Wait, scratch that. This is definitely par for the course for FOX News, but it hits me on a personal level and makes me want to break things.
This morning on the program Fox and Friends, one of the [...]
Now I Feel Guilty For Having Sometimes Enjoyed “Win Ben Stein’s Money”
Posted on May 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Ben Stein, Holocaust, evolution, war on science | 1 Comment
Andrew Sullivan, in a nomination for his “Malkin Award”, notes Ben Stein saying something absolutely despicable:
“When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to [...]
