[Boston Globe] From donuts to keffiyehs–is Rachel Ray destined for trouble with the Israel lobby? Jeffrey Goldberg has this stunt picture of Ray with a “costume change” to “any future Middle East-related wardrobe malfunctions.” Ed Brayton over at Dispatches adds another Photoshop gag. This is just the latest in a series of stories like Urban Outfitters’ anti-war scarf (see here).
In other news, Picasso goes to Abu Dhabi (Boston Globe), Wittenburg Door posts on the “Ten Worst Movies About Jesus” (HT: DMN Religion Blog), a French photography exhibit of France under Nazi rule controversially shows “happy people going about their lives as normal — not a country under brutal military occupation” (NPR), and Yasmina Reza’s comedy “Art” at Everyman wonders, “Why do we see each other if we hate each other?” (Baltimore Sun)
Above: A sacred dish rag. “Now, I’m a materialistic atheist,” writes Martin Rundkvist of Aardvarchaeology, “but I’d still find it in pretty poor taste if someone started to make dish rags with a picture of the Crucifixion or calligraphy of the Islamic creed. And the picture-stone dish rag is pretty much comparable to that.”
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