Oh, you got us good
For the record, the earliest peace symbols did in fact look like the Mercedes insignia. The protestors are guilty of nothing more than anachronism, despite Malkin’s gotcha moment.
Still, it was back in the days when my piano teacher’s waiting area was filled with millenialist comic books that I first read how the peace sign resulted from the initiation ritual of satanic baby-killing cults. New initiates would hold a cross upside down and snap the arms downwards to indicate their break from Christianity - and this tradition led to the peace sign, linking forever the peace movement with Satanism in the minds of piano students with weaker bullshit detectors than my own.
I do remember, though, wondering why one of the comic books, dating to the seventies, predicted the world was going to end three years earlier than the day I was sitting waiting for my turn to play “Clair de Lune.”
Update: LA informs me it’s “Au Clair de la Lune.” Not the way I used to play it.
Citizen journalists Michelle and Jesse Malkin!
Comment by LA — March 19, 2006 @ 2:24 am
Eclair de lune?
Comment by Pinko Punko — March 19, 2006 @ 2:41 am
I actually preferred the Maple Bar Rag.
Comment by Auguste — March 19, 2006 @ 2:43 am
I’m convinced. In just one post, she has discredited everything of the left, from New Deal thought and anti-fascism, to Bill Clinton’s memoirs. We are lost!
Good show, Miz Maglalang!
Comment by leh t4m3 — March 19, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
Well that does it. There’s nothing left to do now but support this noble war.
Comment by bvac — March 20, 2006 @ 6:37 am
Have you noted the harrange about the Times being duped about the person who was in the torture picture? She is spinning it to say that torture did not occur–not that the Times simply got the wrong person.
So your deceit is ok Malkins, but shoddy research is an unpardonable sin?
Comment by skippy — March 20, 2006 @ 6:07 pm