I've been away from the Slog lately. Fashion is a cruel mistress.

Oh, and did you know there's a Swastika, Ontario?

not only that, but i don't think we should give this symbol any more power than it's already been given.

Of course Ben Stein is a fuckwad! He wrote for Nixon and he bad mouthed Deep Throat when he was finally exposed.

I don't care if he's dead, we should still impeach Nixon and Ford (for pardoning the fucker). Same thing will happen with Bush and Cheney.

Tearing down those buildings because their design unintentionally resembles a "swastika", which shouldn't be a taboo symbol anyway, is completely ignorant.

If the swastika shaped US Navy building were in a novel, it would be called foreshadowing.

The Intelligent Design folks want to "teach the controversy" around whether evolution happens...

Big Oil wants to "teach the controversy" around whether global warming is real...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to "teach the controversy" around the whether the Holocaust happened...

What do they all have in common?
Why they're all full of shit, of course!

Just keep an eye out and you'll see -- any time anyone spouts the "teach the controversy" line, you can be 100% certain that they're not only talking complete bullshit -- but they don't even have any convincing made-up, pseudo-facts to help support that worthless bullshit line.

The swastika is an archetypal, universal human religious symbol. It appears on every continent and is as old as humankind. A marker of the sun's travels, it can be seen on Pictish rock carvings, adorning ancient Greek pottery, and on ancient Norse weapons and implements. It was scratched on cave walls in France seven thousand years ago. A swastika marks the beginning of many Buddhist scriptures, and is often inciused on the soles of the feet of the Buddha in statuary. In the Jain religion, it is a symbol of the seventh Jina (Saint), the Tirthankara Suparsva. To Native Americans, the swastika is a symbol of the sun, the four directions, and the four seasons.

That just sounds funny. You'd think every one in a while, a group that stands up for civil rights like them, or the NAACP, would publicly let a few of these cases go, just to remind us all they're fightin' the good fight and not being the reactionaries their detractors paint them as.

Catholics are stupid to object to a poster for a SanFran fag event, but Jews have every right to object to an accidental swastika.

I am glad the government is paying $600,000 to disguise this building. No Jewish child should have to accidentally see this evil shape on the internet.

When Catholics complain about an image that's stupid religions nonsense, but when Jews complain about an image that is bringing more justice to the world. The Anti-Defamation League is an important protector of Jewish rights, and makes sure no movies, images, books, or even accidental images offend any Jew anywhere.