Category Archives: scandal

A Bacchanalian Mirage

July 30, 2024 – 12:23 pm

Associated Press – Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday. Da Vinci’s painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday’s […]

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Jesus Everywhere Even Paris

July 30, 2024 – 12:22 pm

According to the Baltimore Cathecism of my youth, God is omnipotent, all-knowing, and omnipresent, so that Christians seek to see their God everywhere, as happened in the Dionysius tableau on the Paris bridge for the Olympics Spectacle. They saw blasphemy, instead of recognize the Last Supper as miracle, although they see Jesus everywhere. Believers in […]

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Off With Their Heads – Marie Antoinette – Olympic Opening Spectacular

July 30, 2024 – 12:20 pm

One more from the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2024 in France The author and translator Bérengère Viennot had the final word. “This ceremony married classical and popular culture, atrocious taste and High History, wokeism and unchecked humour, technical prowess and the genius of Piaf – and has succeeded in provoking a terrific argument,” she […]

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Not on Fifth Avenue

June 10, 2023 – 6:37 pm

Two weeks before the 2016 Iowa Caucuses Donald Trump regaled the crowd by saying, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Since the January 6, 2020 MAGA insurrection and his ouster from the White House the leader of the GOP […]

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$47

December 29, 2020 – 3:32 pm

Back in 2012 the BBC reported that former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi held a bunga-bunga party featuring strippers in nun uniforms for his guest. Each dancer was paid $2000 for her performance plus tips. This information came to light during the testimony of a dancer. One of her compatriots was rewarded with the post of […]

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