There's absolutely nothing in the world I find more baffling than the right's continuing critique of liberal bias in Google logo choices. Do I need to recommend some reading on free markets?
UPDATE: Oops! Link fixed now.
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The War on Easter
24 Mar 2008 10:22 am
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Bad link...
I will point out that this is an excellent chance to find out whether Yglesias ever actually reads the comments - a proposition for which I see evidence about once per fortnight, not counting his careful monitoring of the comment thread to the post in which the "please don't swear or be a jerk in the comments" policy was announced.
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
Like, Memorial Day, Easter appears to be a holiday Google doesn't do — although it managed to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and the first day of spring (even if they skipped Jonah and my birthdays!) this past week.
Kathryn Jean, Lopez only seems to have a passing relationship -- with grammars and (her) punctuation.
It's curious that the first round of the NCAA championship overlapped Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter - the most sacred days of the Christian calendar. It would be like having a major sports event in Israel over Rosh Hoshana and Yom Kippur. This period, not Christmas, is the holiest for Christians.
Yet do we here the NCAA and CBS of declaring a war on Easter?
Maybe it's because St Patrick's Day and first day of spring are celebrated, everyone who celebrates does so on the same date. Can't say the same for Easter (there are different dates for Easter depending on whether one is Orthodox or not), and Memorial Day (lots of different "Memorial Days" celebrated around the world.
Some people really just need reasons to be whiney.
Hillary's Bosnia trip is of course behind Google's failure to turn their "l" into a little Dying Christ figure.
I agree that the grammar is stunningly bad. If you're going to update, fix your clauses and commas.
The final update included the suggestion of an Easter egg in an "o" as something that would satisfy a Christian hoping to see the holiday recognized. Which....they had springtime stuff, which the Easter eggs are. The basket of Easter eggs has grass and flowers, too. The connection of tie-dyed eggs to Christ's resurrection is after the fact.
This is very reminiscent, sad to say, of those people who mope that they cannot possibly celebrate a major religious holiday of their faith until all sales clerks are instructed to greet them appropriately and stores arrange displays with a suitably religious content. I'd think more of their faith if their ability to celebrate major holy days needed no help from the secular world beyond perhaps taking off work.
Matt skims the comments for insults to his personal appearance, spelling, and punctuation, then cries himself to sleep every night.
nice work Matt.
Get your link correct, geezh.
Is this link the political version of Rickrolling?
Posted by Warren Terra | March 24, 2008 10:52 AM
Maybe Matt's trying to start a new trend. Hillrolling.
You understand, of course, that these are the same people who raised hell because "In God We Trust" was put on the sides of coins instead of the faces, because it was less noticeable and could wear off, thus allowing outer space to fall to the godless communists.
Even with the correct link, I'm confused about the point of this post. If Kathryn Lopez feels that google isn't providing a service she wants by not redecorating its logo to acknowledge Easter, she can stop using google and encourage others not to use it while being perfectly consistent with free market principles. This would be a crazy thing to do, but there's nothing anti-free market about it.
With the War on Christmas now over, the Battle for Easter begins anew.
First they came for the chocolate bunnies...
The old Christians had it easy. They had lions to get thrown to. Modern Christians have to go to monumental efforts to find even the slightest persecution that they can suffer.
(even if they skipped Jonah and my birthdays!) this past week.i>
KLo is right about this one. Google missed a perfect opportunity to have the pair of doughy pantloads, sitting inside each of the Os, face-first into two feed bags of cheese doodles. It would have made for a solemn reminder of the dangers of obesity and poor food choices.
They don't do Christmas, Ramadan, Hannukah, Passover, Easter, Festivus or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's Tour of Italy.
this continuing idiocy is not to be confused by, but to be mourned or scorned. Lopez represents the rah-rah conservatives on the Corner - she is a stand-in for Hannity and Limbaugh, for RedState and LGF. In her mind it is not enough to win an election, or to persuade many people of your policy preferences.
No, for Lopez all of Creation must reflect RC-conservatism. Meaning that, yes, Google can be "bad" on the issue of Easter. Meaning that various businesses every December are accused of abetting the gAyCLU's War on Christmas. In fact, every little facet of popular culture has enduring political significance for her: NASCAR is "good," as are "24" and Curt Schilling and, of course, Mel Gibson (swoon!).
When she tries really hard to justify this mouth-breathing commentary on American life, it usually comes out as "culture matters." See, she thinks that if enough brands of soda and bags of chips are festooned with the Baby Jesus - if enough automobiles have "Protected by Angels" stickers on them - then we'll all magically wake up one day and amend the Constitution to repeal Roe v. Wade and the 19th Amendment.
Except, of course, she's wrong. From 2001:
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos01.html
Scroll down to the undated site change between April 22 and March 17th of that year. They changed the Google "next page" icon into 'Easter eggs.' Google has honored Easter in the past, just not this year.
"...it managed to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and the first day of spring..."
At least we know the first day of spring actually happened.
It's pretty unfair to expect Google to come up with a good Easter logo.
I mean, there's not even a 'T' in the company name.
"The old Christians had it easy. They had lions to get thrown to."
I agree with the late, great Aleister Crowley, who used to say, "The Christians to the lions!"
Throw in the Jews and Muslims, and it would be even better. Maybe add the idiots who treat Buddhism and Taoism as religions, since they are more properly "spiritual philosophies."
We can leave the neo-pagans alone - they like to dance nude. Nothing wrong with that.
But definitely all the Christian Zionists and nitwits like Mel Gibson need to be fed to lions - or maybe sharks. There are probably more sharks around than lions. OTOH, if we feed the lions, maybe there'll be more lions.
Then we can start on the politicians and the lawyers, the judges and the cops.
And of course, if they had used an Easter egg K-Lo would be the first one screaming about de-Christianising the holiday
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There's absolutely nothing in the world I find more baffling than the right's continuing critique of liberal bias in Google logo choices.
Even more than your eccentric, Eco-eque, linking tendencies? I'm surprised. I admit I'm having trouble connecting a WP fact check of HRC's Balkan trip to Google logo choices. A little help?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | March 24, 2008 10:43 AM