Monday, February 23, 2004

So I just got back from watching "The Passion of the Christ" (with a Jewish state assemblyman, the son of Holocaust survivors). It's a very very powerful film -- and then some. High production values, good acting, extraordinarily graphic violence.

But yeah, I have to think it may well incite some anti-Jewish violence. Not all Jews are portrayed as evil in the film -- there's that one guy, Simon whathisname, who bears Jesus' cross for him -- but jeez, the way the Jewish high priests are portrayed? Eeesh.

Monday, February 02, 2004

So apparently the naked man who snuck onto the field at the end of halftime at the Super Bowl is a serial streaker, famous in Britain, who had announced his intentions on his website ...