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I probably left out a lot of things from my 2010 Year in Review, but one which definitely seems worth coming back to make note of is the Cordoba center. If only because of how well it fits the theme of “things which seemed so all-important at some point during the past year and yet probably haven’t been given a thought by most people in months as the year ends.”

As with, say, the BP oil spill, the big picture hasn’t really even changed; in this case though, not even the proximate cause of popular outrage has changed. The BBC actually did a follow-up a couple of weeks ago and, yeah, Islamic cultural center and mosque still planned for a site several hundred yards from Ground Zero. Yeah, still. And yet all those Tweeting reactionaries and red-faced bigots who condemned this idea, not to mention all the spineless Democrat douchebags who mumbled disapproval rather than stand up for something, seem to have decided that it’s no longer really worth commenting on, after all.

What a joke.

While I’m on this subject, I’d like to share an odd little discovery which actually reminded me of the issue in the first place. (more…)

I kind of just want to record these comments, here, for myself as much as anything.

The context of the following quotes is America’s latest useless, brainless, hysterical hissyfit, that over the Cordoba center. The Cordoba center will be more familiar to most people, unfortunately, by its condensed and intentionally-charged, as well as critically-misleading name, “the Ground Zero mosque.” As usual, thanks to our “liberal media” for sacrificing both accuracy and objectivity in favor of attention-getting and, not coincidentally, inflammatory phrasing.

I should offer a gold star to The Economist, however, for not only its reasoned and mature perspective on the matter, but for absolutely piling on. A praiseworthy effort.

Sadly, many of America’s so-called “leaders,” have unfortunately been lacking any similar commitment to those national ideals (not to mention the plain, old-fashioned concept of “standing up for what’s right”) which are apparently inconvenient just now.

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