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Entry: Flogging Brother Ass Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/flogging_brother_ass#6013 Post contents: Hey John Z, What a coincidence. As I'm reading your article from an internet cafe in Java, I have in my sack a book "The Great Mortality" by John Kelly, about the Black Death. Just an hour ago over lunch I was reading his description of medieval hygeine: "St Francis of Assisi, who considered God's water too precious to squander, was another infrequent bather....another useful phrase in the fourteenth century French-English dictionary was, "Hi, the fleas bite me so!" On an unrelated (or perhaps related) note, the Muslims I've been meeting here in Java make more intellectual sense and have more moral clarity than most of the Western Cultural Marxists who occasionally infect this beautiful island. Who are the real friends of Christendom? Cultural Marxists who believe in cultural determinism (as fanatically as Lenin believed in economic determinism), or those among the Muslims who at least believe in mutual tolerance (and yes they really are out there) while AGREEING with us that there is some universal standard of morality? I'll have more to write about that in a coming article here when I get back to Oz. Meanwhile, make note that the Javanese Muslims love The Simpsons, and and Osama Bin Laden is, far, far away from THAT indeed. Sent at: 2008 08 29