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Twenty-five years after wreaking havoc on the Empire, Lydon is still as piercing as a safety pin through the nostril. Ask about Bono's reworking Anarchy in the U.K. for a new sound track, and the response is swift. "It's horrible!" How about American rabble-rousers like shock jock Howard Stern? "He's one joke that's already tired." Post-punk diva Courtney Love? "Courtney Loves Kurt's money." Don't count on Lydon's accepting any Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors either. "Never. I don't need accolades from boring old farts." Thankfully, Lydon remains rotten...
Since Jesus is so trendy this week, I provide the following excerpt from an e-mail conversation with the divine Mei Pin Phua...
...PIN: he will belv tt u wr a particulrly testy challenge sent by god, n he will belv tt he is a bttr Xian 4 hvg endured u. u will hv thrby strengthnd e church. well done, soman. y dnt u stay in ur rm 4 e rest of ur life...
This is not the "banality of evil," as Hannah Arendt described Eichmann's bureaucratic Final Solution. The photographs present, rather, a sort of festivity of evil. Well dressed white people - the men in jaunty straw boaters, the women in pretty Sunday dresses, the children (children!) neat as a pin - are posed as they inspect mutilated and naked black corpses. People have brought picnic baskets. The pictures were sent as postcards through the mail...
Optimists pin their hopes on Putin's experiences in St. Petersburg. He became intimate with Russia's leading reformers and has also gathered many of them around him in Moscow. He learned the rudiments of free-market economics. He witnessed the dimensions of Russia's failure, understanding that the country needed a strong economy if it hoped to be a strong nation again--and that joining global capitalism would be the only solution. "I know," emphasizes First Deputy Finance Minister Kudrin, "that he is a proponent of continued reform...