Which is why the First Amendment really does need that "except for
assholes" clause!

Talk about a slippery slope . . . .

the one picture about half way through, with Hitler in an easy chair, laughing with the young lady (Eva Braun?) is what I was talking about upthread. At that second, he's enjoying some sort of joke, not being a megalomaniac running all over Europe. That's the insidious part of evil; is anyone evil all the time? Right that second Hitler was just a guy enjoying a laugh.

Many years ago the TV show Quantum Leap had Sam leap into the body of a Klansman. Of course there was the requisite "I hate this" from Sam. But what interested me was that this klansman was married and had a kid, and a job of some sort. So I remember thinking, did the wife marry him for his hood and cross-burning? While these traits may make this person an easy one to sketch out, that can't be the totality of a character. And that's what's always interested me in evil characters. At some point they're not evil - (Well in the Red Skull's case I'd make an exception). They're people, who happen to be capable of doing very bad things.

But it's the everyday evil I really worry about. Like the neo-Nazis and Klan and their ilk. And Holocaust deniers as well. I worked with a lady whoe grandfather had been in Patton's army and she said the only thing he never talked about was liberating a death camp, she couldn't remember which one. She said all he would do when the subject came up was cry and change the subject. Yeah, I'm sure that's fake.

JB

What comes first-the hand or the cube? We see so much 'art' were it looks like something just doesn't fit like it's supposed too-but that really looks like the skull is holding the cube.

Also that mouth is just fantastic. The teeth...everything. That's one scary SOB.

Sean