Webmonkey Wanted - Upgrading MT?

I'm hoping to get back into blogging (yeah, again. . . heh.) For Christmas this year, the Duchess and I are going to upgrade our Moveable Type and get some decent spam protection going. Neither of us is much with the programming, though. We're hoping to hire someone to fix things up for us.

Any tech savvy types out there interested in a quick job? Email me at wodehousian @ gmail.com if so. . . Thanks!

Let the Wookie Islamist Win

The boys and I were talking about the hypocritical way in which liberals treat Muslims and Christians. The same 'Progressives' who applaud Piss Christ, engage in crude stereotyping of Christians and use 'Jesus' as an expletive even in family programming, react with horror to the mildest slight against Islam. Criticism of Islam in Canada, most European countries and increasingly in the U.S. is considered a form of hate speech. No similar protections are ever extended to Christians. Piggy banks are banned in Britain in deference to Muslim sensitivities, Muslim footbaths are built with government money in U.S. campuses, and sharia family laws are increasingly being acceded to in the West. Meanwhile, even Christmas trees are attacked by the Left as an unconscionable intrusion of religion into public space.

There are two obvious reasons for this double standard. First, of course, is the religion of multiculturalism and the debilitating white liberal guilt which undergirds it. In the face of an aggressive minority lobbying effort, liberals lack the will to defend even their most sacred of cows -- secularism.

Secondly, the hard Left has made a tacit alliance with radical Islam. The ACORN crowd knows that hygenically-challenged Seattle activists will never stop Big Macs from taking over the world. At this point, the only credible opposition to globalism comes from the Islamic world. While these hard Lefties are small in number, they punch above their weight on a cultural level.

The most important factor in this double standard, however, is much more visceral in nature -- basic liberal cowardice. George Lucas really captured the spirit of the thing back in 1977:

R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon

Chewbacca: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh

C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you.

Han Solo: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.

C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.

Han Solo: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.

Chewbacca: Grrf.

C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win.

Substitute Islamist for Chewbacca, CAIR representative for Han Solo and Spineless Liberal for C-3PO and it's a pretty clear picture of current events. In crudest terms, the Left mocks Christians and kowtows to radical Muslims because the Religion of Peace has an ingrained habit of blowing crap up.