Matt Drudge, Social Critic and Comic

Matt Drudge shows off his sense of humor with these juxtaposed headlines:

"EU Officials implore new immigrants to learn 'European values' "

and

"Fans Hurl Racist Epthets at Black Soccer Stars".

Hmm.  The Brits were being booed by the Spanish, and the British fans were pretty amusing with their response:

...yesterday England fans threw the taunts back in Spain’s face and sang: “One Armada and NO World Cups.”

It was an ironic twist on the terrace chant aimed at German rivals - “Two World Wars and one World Cup”.

Oh, dear.

Matt continues his tolerance and diversity Euro-roundup with this news from Greece - "Outraged Greeks say Alexander was not bisexual", not, they assure us, that there is anything wrong with that.  In what should be an entry in "Weirdest Analogy Ever", the Greeks go on to explain the importance of historical accuracy:

"We cannot come out and say that (former U.S.) President John F. Kennedy was a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and so Warner cannot come out and say Alexander was gay," Varnakos said.

John Kennedy was Kobe Bryant?!?  What unsavory sexual escapade are they alleging now?

Ann Althouse was insightful as ever on Oliver Stone's discussion of his new "Alexander" film, and the subtle exploration of Alexander's bisexuality.  But is this really going to turn this movie into Saturday night date-bait?  The Dem strategy - vote for Kerry or you're a homophoibic bigot - did not work so well.  Is this tactic going to sell movie tickets?

Comments

[ed]

Hmmmm.

"Alexander the Great" might be a good movie. Hell "Troy" might be a good movie. But frankly they're just way to gay for me.

$30, for two people, to watch half-naked men give each other meaningful glances, mutual backrubs and oil themselves up?

I don't think so.

[Les Jones]

If you're curious about Stone's mis-treatment of history in his other films, read One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK.

[Myopist]

I always got the feeling that Oliver was a little worried about the fact that people - regular, common people - went to go see his movies. Now that he's an official Famous Director, does he actually need to make commerical successes?

[Abhishiktananda]

>> The Dem strategy - vote for Kerry or you're a homophoibic bigot - did not work so well
>>

This was the Dem strategy? I've heard that line wheeled out to criticize those alleged "moral values" voters ex post facto, but never even heard it during the campaign, much less as anything close to a campaign strategy. Sounds like a straw man to me.

[SOOTHSAYER]

PROOF THAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT WAS NOT GAY FROM ORIGINAL ANCIENT GREEK SOURCES

“When Philoxenos, the leader of the seashore, wrote to Alexander that there was a young man in Ionia whose beauty has yet to be seen and asked him in a letter if he (Alexander) would like him (the young man) to be sent over, he (Alexander) responded in a strict and disgusted manner: “You are the most hideous and malign of all men, have you ever seen me involved in such dirty work that you found the urge to flatter me with such hedonistic business?” (From Plutarch’s On the Luck and Virtue of Alexander A, 12)

“But as for the other captive women, seeing that they were surpassingly stately and beautiful, he merely said jestingly that Persian women were torments to the eyes. And displaying in rivalry with their fair looks the beauty of his own sobriety and self-control, he passed them by as though they were lifeless images for display.” (From Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Alexander, 21)

“When Philoxenus, the commander of his forces on the sea-board, wrote that there was with him a certain Theodorus, of Tarentum, who had two young men of surpassing beauty to sell, and enquired whether Alexander would buy them, Alexander was incensed, and cried out many times to his friends, asking them what shameful thing Philoxenus had ever seen in him that he should spend his time in making such disgraceful proposals.” (From Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Alexander, 22, 1)

In light of the evidence above, CONSIDER the following questions and DRAW your own conclusions:

If Alexander was a homosexual, would he have reacted in this manner to Philoxenos’ proposals?

If Alexander was a homosexual, would he have ruthlessly and disgustingly dismissed Philoxenus?

If Alexander was a homosexual, would he have “drooled” over Persian women who were “torments to the eyes”?

[SOOTHSAYER]

A NEW BOOK WHICH DEMOLISHES THE MYTH THAT HOMOSEXUALITY WAS ACCEPTED BY ANCIENT GREEKS

Debunking the Myth of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece BY ADONIS GEORGIADES

http://www.grecoreport.com/debunking_the_myth_of_homosexuality_in_ancient_greece.htm

Proof that Homosexuality was UNNATURAL by Ancient Greeks from Original Ancient Greek Sources:

“And whether one makes the observation in earnest or in jest, one certainly should not fail to observe that when male unites with female for procreation the pleasure experienced is held to be due to nature, but it is AGAINST nature when male mates with male or female with female, and that those first guilty of such enormities were impelled by their slavery to pleasure.” Plato Laws 1.636c

“If we were to follow in nature's steps and enact that law which held good before the days of Laius, declaring that it is right to refrain from indulging in the same kind of intercourse with men and boys as with women, and adducing as evidence thereof the nature of wild beasts, and pointing out how male does not touch male for this purpose, since it is unnatural,--in all this we would probably be using an argument neither convincing nor in any way consonant with your States.” Plato Laws 8.836c

“I maintain that our regulation on this head must go forward and proclaim that our citizens must not be worse than fowls and many other animals which are produced in large broods, and which live chaste and celibate lives without sexual intercourse until they arrive at the age for breeding; and when they reach this age they pair off, as instinct moves them, male with female and female with male;” Plato Laws 8.840d

“We might forcibly effect one of two things in this matter of sex-relations,--either that no one should venture to touch any of the noble and freeborn save his own wedded wife, nor sow any unholy and bastard seed in fornication, nor any unnatural and barren seed in sodomy,--or else we should entirely abolish love for males” Plato Laws 8.841d

“When Zeus created humans and their other soul properties, he ingrained them in every human being. However, he left SHAME out. Since he didn’t know where to insert it, he commanded that it (shame) be inserted in the anus. Shame, however, complained about this and was very upset. Since shame was profusely complaining, shame said: “I will only agree to be inserted this way (i.e., in the anus) and whoever is inserted after me, I will come out.” From this day on, may every sexually inclined person who chooses this method be SHAMEFUL!” Aesop’s Fables, Zeus and Aeschyne (Shame)