O Tempora, O Mores
I followed the My Pet Jawa link from Mona’s entry about the latest battle in the War on Hannukah, to discover that the New York Post decided to express its outrage at the crime and support for tolerance and fellowship by running eight pages of teenage cheesecake photos from one suspect’s MySpace page.
That’s so awesome that if the word awesome didn’t exist we would have to invent it. We need to change the rules of english usage so that awesome may be used to modify awesome – recursively!
You may think I’m exaggerating. Come on, Jim, you demand, did they run pictures depicting what amounts to dry-humping? Did they show multiple pictures of chicks touching each other? Yes! That’s how you know the New York Post believes in religious freedom!
Comment by Mona —
December 12, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
pffft. Lhude sing cuccu, I guess that is the sort of thing ye guys find teh hot.
Comment by Jim Henley —
December 12, 2007 @ 10:48 pm
Honestly, Mona, she does nothing for me, even if she didn’t violate the half your age plus four rule. But it’s pretty clear the NYP thinks someone will find it teh hott. (Note: I corrected your spelling, fellow geezer.)
Comment by Mona —
December 12, 2007 @ 11:02 pm
Ach, has Mrs. Offering figured out yet that you have teh ghey?
Comment by Jim Henley —
December 12, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
Indeed he has!
D’oh!
Comment by mds —
December 12, 2007 @ 11:31 pm
Someday in the far future, techno-archaeologists in silvery jumpsuits will unearth the earlier subway story and this spread, and will use them to perfectly reconstruct the entire history of the New York Post.
Comment by ajay —
December 13, 2007 @ 6:32 am
I think it’s supposed to be “half your age plus seven”, isn’t it? Or is this the sort of lax standard that We Communists are supposed to be following now?
Comment by mds —
December 13, 2007 @ 8:38 am
(1) Looking at photos is treated slightly more leniently than Biblical knowledge of the person, and (2) as we age, we’re permitted to gradually reduce the additive part to zero. There’s a complicated exponential function they’ll teach you once you’re over the Gaussian hill, ajay.
Comment by DangerMan —
December 13, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
The assailants are also being charged with unlawful assembly. WTF? Riding the subway in a group is illegal without a permit?
Comment by Mona —
December 13, 2007 @ 9:05 pm
I don’t know the terms of the statute in question, but the operative word seems to be “unlawful.” Assembling for the purpose of beating the shit out of others is unlawful.
Comment by mr.fundamental —
December 13, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
I feel like I am living in a Bruce Springsteen song.
Comment by Lawrence Krubner —
December 14, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Isn’t New York Post violating the copyright of the photographer by grabbing those photos? Or did they pay royalties on those photos? I realize that when someone is involved with a crime it is acceptable for media outlets to photograph the suspect and publish the photos, but in those cases the media outlets are usually the ones creating the images and owning the copyright.