More on "The Fighting Jeesus"

He didn't get nailed.

Via Hullabaloo, while Joe Klien doesn't understand the latest debates over FISA for shit, his rudimentary mental faculties seem to be capable of understanding some basic principles re: dial groups. And the results aren't pretty.

You know, it's not as if viciousness is a particularly new phenomenon, but I think the degree to which some Americans take delight in what amounts to sadism, pure and simple, is more than a little troubling, especially when you consider that those who seem to enjoy it the most are quite often the same people who proclaim their "Christian" faith the loudest. I doubt that's entirely by accident.

Sure, the poor have been blamed for their own misery throughout history, but the latest fasion really seems to have resulted from the perfect storm of marriage between neo-conservatives and old-fashioned racists, a marriage born of convenience. Ronald Reagan may have been the genial mask it presented to the public, but his visage merely covered a death head that continues to assert itself in quite ugly ways...including literal contempt for the very principles of the faith they supposedly espouse.

Well, it's not like that's particularly new, either, I guess.

Note: "The Fighting Jesus--I Didn't Get Nailed" was, and for all I know, remains a Mardi Gras persona/costume for someone whom I VERY briefly met in the mid-late 1980's, a friend of a friend of a friend, etc. If anyone recognizes the concept or knows the originator, feel free to tell me and I'll pass along the proper credit, while offering a pleasant hello and how are ya to the person in question...