Jonah Goldberg–“The Genocide Loophole”

The climate of anti-Semitism made the Holocaust possible, but so did Enlightenment bias, which holds that almost anything can be justified in the name of progress.

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Octopia–An online gallery of old comic and pulp fiction covers featuring overly aggressive octopi.

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Some Charlton Heston links to honor a good man’s homegoing.

• A look at his career at Reel Classics.
• Some of the letters to the editor Heston sent to the L.A. Times.
• The classy George Clooney mocks Heston’s Alzheimer’s and says “he deserves it.” (Yet another good reason to avoid Clooney films like the Eboloa Virus. I know I do.)
• A clip from the film “Omega Man,” the 70s original upon which the recent Will Smith movie “I Am Legend” was based: