Monsters of different stripes
This week, The Guardian’s digested read takes on Hannibal Rising:
“The poor boy has been left mute,” wept Hannibal’s uncle Robert, a noted painter. “Indeed,” replied his wife, the impossibly beautiful and exotic Lady Murasaki. “He has suffered unimaginable horrors that readers can all too easily guess. We must take him back to our French chateau.”….
See how the reader struggles to feign surprise.
A bloodbath ensued.
Hannibal smiled. He had got away with his greatest crime to date. A bestselling thriller with no thrills at all.
*Digested* read! Get it?
In other news, who do you get to show up at your Holocaust revisionist convention in Iran. Hey, look everybody, it’s David Duke.
December 12, 2006 10:19 am 
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By Dr J, December 12, 2006 @ 10:37 am
David and Mahmoud deserve one another.
By Herman Glimscher, December 12, 2006 @ 12:13 pm
To say that David Duke is a merkin doesn’t give proper credit to all the other merkins out there.
By DJ Cayenne, December 12, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Maybe DD will find Iran a hospitable place and will stay. It could happen.
By Dr J, December 12, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
If he runs for president they’ll have to break out the “Vote for the radical ISLAMIC extremist holocaust denier–this time it’s important” bumper stickers.
By flavawheel, December 12, 2006 @ 3:38 pm
So a Nazi, a ultra-Orthodox Jew and radical Muslim walk into a Holocaust revisionist convention…
Stranger than fiction, indeed.
By Beth, December 12, 2006 @ 4:44 pm
I shouldn’t have gone to that link. I’d already read about this in The Globe and Mail this morning. It sickens me. There are days I wish I didn’t even look at the morning paper. Being uninformed has a certain appeal…
By DJ Cayenne, December 12, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
Dr J – The original bumper sticker that you reference should be in the politics hall of fame.