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Friday, March 21, 2014

PUTIN' PUTIN DOWN

Hillary Clinton’s comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler may have opened a Pandora’s Box for  Cold War revivalists, conspiracy theorists and political gossippers.

So here’s my beginners list of 10 eerie parallels between Put. And Hit.:

*Highly charismatic heads of state,

*Masters of national propaganda machine,

*Little tolerance for political opposition,

*Tapped into national yearning for a return to glorious Empire of previous century and earlier,

*Rewrote national constitution to extend power grip,

*Held power in shakey economic times,

*Hosted an Olympic Games,

*During which chided for anti-progressive stance on social issue (Aryanism; gay rights),

*Swift early military campaigns explained as “annexation” (Sudetenland; Crimea)

*Trying to reacquire border territory lost in aftermath of prior war (WWI “punitive” settlement; Cold War).

Sunday, March 16, 2014

A SIMPLE SOLUTION


Businesses that want to be allowed not to serve gays should simply be required to post this policy somewhere prominently so that anyone patronizing them could tell what upstanding bigots they are.