Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Friday, October 10, 2003

The Fighting Jesus

Insomnia leads me back to the blogroll. Digby led me to this Salon article whose author seems to be channelling Leni Riefenstahl: "Californians...have elected as governor not a man but a symbol, a symbol of strength perfected by the will into a kind of triumphal capitalist beauty." Yawohl! Says Cary Tennis, "I have been thinking about Schwarzenegger as a man with the appeal of a violent Christ..." Hey, I was there when the SubGenius thought of that first...

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