If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman Fries” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy.
Today\’s is from Ross \”Do That Thing\” Douthat, who writes in his column \”Not Even in South Park?\” lamenting South Park\’s inability to mock Islam with the freedom it can mock American culture (I think):
This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
Honestly, I think Ross was trying to have a point here, but I can\’t really tell for sure. Other than, probably, he only heard the story through a game of telephone.
Toot toot.
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