Oh, Chapter Five

Remember the good old days of Chapter Four where nothing was happening? Chapter five is pretty much the opposite. So far we have sex with the Devil, a threesome with the Devil, the Devil tries to break up a marriage and the Devil pouts. People plot to come rescue our hero. She does not want rescuing. She turns the baby over to the baby’s aunt who would like some answers from the Devil about what happened to her sister.

The answers are not forthcoming.

And then Satanists try to kill our hero, who is saved only through quick thinking and her big boobs. And the Devil loses a finger.

And I haven’t even gotten to the trippy crap yet.

But this means that Chapter five will not be the last chapter.

And I am feeling a little drained by how big a jerk the Devil is. Which, of course, he is, as he must be. But still.

Different Types of Libel

Over at Got Medieval, you can learn more about the bizarre ways Christians have been libeling Jews through the ages. It’s not just the blood libel, folks.

“Blood Libel”

I honestly don’t even know where to start with this nonsense. Anyone who could use this term, when discussing the attempted assassination of a Jewish congressmember, about her own non-Jewish self…

I wonder, I really do, sometimes, if some Christians in America really grasp that Jewish people exist and are not just metaphorical characters in history and the Bible one might adopt as a part of one’s identity, the way people feel attached to Hobbits and imagine themselves Hobbit-like, because they think they have similar characteristics.

Otherwise, the only people who I know who regularly use this phrase are historians and anti-Semites. If you aren’t a historian and aren’t Jewish, that’s where you encounter it. My whole twitter feed this morning was filled with folks who had no idea what it even was. It’s not a widely known or used phrase. And, as they pointed out over at Shakesville, it’s not one you are likely to come to on your own, since it makes no sense out of context. “Blood” and “libel” don’t mean anything next to each other if you don’t already know the meaning of the word. If you had to look at it and guess, you might think it had to do with people lying about who’s in your family.

But Palin used it like she knew what it means, and so we must assume she does.

And that is… deeply troubling, to put it mildly.

Every Day I am Embarrassed to have Bought my Car from Beaman Toyota

This morning Lee Beaman used the money I gave him for my car to plot against the “homosexual agenda.” Hope he’s not waiting for me to bring my car back there to be serviced.