Now Our Dead Soldiers Have Nothing to Live For
Hunh. I eventually learned that the jingosphere whipped itself into a frenzy over the Google holiday page that didn’t bark. Turns out they never do Labor Day or May Day either, so now they’re going to have the AFL-CIO and the Comintern on their ass too. I’m personally chapped that they don’t do Armistice Day either, the day where we quite sensibly celebrate the end of a war.
Glenn Reynolds has the funniest reader e-mail ever.
Most of these people spent the 1990s urging others not to be so freaking sensitive about every little thing. Babies.
Comment by neil —
May 30, 2006 @ 10:48 pm
If we don’t have to look at patriotic cartoon art, the terrorists win!
By the way, the ’foreign customers’ thing is a red herring. IP addresses originating from different countries get their own different Google frontpages, and I believe they already have different holiday schedules, but I may be wrong.
Comment by Leonard —
May 30, 2006 @ 10:56 pm
Funny title.
To be fair, it seems to me that blogs are the perfect medium for complaints of this level of importance.
Comment by Gary Farber —
May 30, 2006 @ 11:55 pm
Ressentiment is the lifeblood of these folks. Michelle Malkin would have no career without it, and Glenn would have plateaued in 2003.
On top of it, they are utterly unconcious of their echo-chamber effect, or of life existing outside of it save to provide sources of A-ha! targets. As a result, their truth is a Very Special Truth.
It’s a land where Jessie Mcbeth is as important as Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh, where John Murtha plots to bring down America, where there’s endless hidden Good News in Iraq kept from us by the evil flying monkeys of the dread MSM, and where John Kerry is insane because he has a hat.
It’s a wonderful land.
Once you’ve made that crucial all-important psychotic break.
Comment by wade —
May 31, 2006 @ 4:03 am
can’t google just track what holidays you’d like to have their own logo for with cookies or something?
Comment by Barry —
May 31, 2006 @ 8:53 am
Jim: ”Most of these people spent the 1990s urging others not to be so freaking sensitive about every little thing. Babies. ”
Well, on my Earth they spent the 1990’s wailing about everything that Clinton did, or that any leftist or liberal said.
Comment by Jesse Walker —
May 31, 2006 @ 11:04 am
”As I warned earlier, Google seems to be engaged in a Dell-like squandering of its goodwill, which strikes me as very unwise given that goodwill is its biggest asset, really.”
O foolish Google! Why must you ignore Glenn Reynolds’ warnings?
Comment by BruceR —
May 31, 2006 @ 11:55 am
It’s the modern-day equivalent of the white feather, really: jingopunditry.
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