OF A GOLDEN AGE

As I flipped through my Google Reader this morning, an alarming trend stood out.

• XKCD gets us started, bringing to mind the Simpsons where Bart accidentally goes to smart kid school. When asked to give an example of a paradox, Bart says, “You’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t.”

• Goldblog cites an astonishing editorial from Garrison Keillor that wrecks my warm opinion of the man:

If you don’t believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn “Silent Night” and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism, and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write “Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah”?

Really, Keillor? Pulling out the ol’ red herring of cultural elitism? Get bent.

• design mind took a different approach. Does Gordon Ramsay threaten to undo his small jerk empire by acting personable in a new show? I agree with the author that it might:

Gordon, stick with what you do best, before you set your brand back a decade. Go back to being an f-bomb dropping a-hole. Please.

Is this what the holidays are for? Abrupt nonsensical role reversal? Jerks run amok?

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