— Arrested Development was freakin’ ROBBED. Again.
— Florida: Nice place to visit, but wouldn’t wanna live there.
— And finally, I have decided the Star is reacting to our loving, gentle (or not) mocking of “Thorns and Flowers” by ratcheting up the stoooopid. I know this makes no sense, but now else can you explain them giving a flower to a restaurant in India—yes, that India, for the removing Nazi names and symbols—yes, that Nazi—from the restaurant. This is so inane I can hardly comprehend it. The restaurant’s in MUMBAI. And the owner is removing something HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE PUT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. And for this, they get a FLOWER.
Wow. Best. Thorns and Flowers. EVER.
This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2006.
As an aside, swastikas are also used as a traditional Hindi symbol. The Star didn’t consider that, but perhaps the swastikas were “Nazi swastikas” and not “Hindi swastikas-with-four-dots”
Learn more about Hindi swastikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika.
Well, the restaurant’s name was Hitler’s Cross, so I think that makes it clear at least part of the swastikas’ intent…
Quite true. I suppose I was assuming too much good faith (or granting benefit of the doubt) that they were not “Nazi Swastikas,” because that would be totally inappropriate if they were.