Tag Archives: extermination

Passing Judgment Over Passover

Passover is the most important religious holiday on the Jewish Calendar. For Millenia Passaich has celebrated the Angel of Death passing over the first-borns of the Hebrew to murder the first-born of the Egyptians. This last plague of Moses freed the bonded Hebrews from the Land of the Pharaohs. The actual date has been lost […]

Cut Schurkes Loose

According to Wikipedia the etymology of the word “shark” might have been derived from the Yucatec Maya word xok, pronounced ‘shok’. Evidence for this etymology comes from the Oxford English Dictionary, which notes shark first came into use after Sir John Hawkins’ sailors exhibited one in London in 1569 and posted “sharke” to refer to […]

15 Minutes For A Nobody

In 1968 Warhol wrote that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” for a catalogue of his work in Sweden. Eleven years later Warhol crowed the triumph of his prediction by saying, “My prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” The statement […]