Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Once again, it's penance time
"[Mel] Gibson's Malibu meltdown is a fully formed set piece of its time, an almost weirdly exact alignment of appearance and reality. Here, in sickening clarity, is a simulacrum of the categorical hatreds and religious rancor that's become the defining danger of the new millennium. What we see is what it is, a man of self-proclaiming faith exposed as a disciple of hate."
