my favorite t-shirts from concerts and events are always the guys hawking the copyright violations in the parking lot.

since i might be going to see sumo wrestling tomorrow night, i have some suggestions for the parking lot t-shirt vendors:

the vernacular:

"gimme sumo dat!"

or the hopeful:

"sumo day my prince will come"

or, for the lawyers,

"sumorary judgement"

or, faustian sumo:

"sumopheles"

or, punk sumo:

"i got salt in my eye in the sumosh pit"

or, finally, for the winner:

"sumost-est"

nice. this is getting out of hand.

"A growing minority of Americans believe that Jews were responsible for Christ's death. Roughly a quarter of the public (26%) now expresses that view. This represents a modest but statistically significant increase in the number holding this opinion when compared with a 1997 survey by ABC News which found 19% feeling this way. But a solid majority of Americans both then and now (60%) continue to say that Jews were not responsible for the death of Christ.

"Nonetheless, the shift in opinion among young people and African Americans over that period has been striking. Currently, 34% of those below age 30 and 42% of blacks say they feel Jews were responsible for Christ's death, up substantially from 1997 (10% and 21%, respectively). By contrast, there has been far less movement among older Americans and among whites. "

i don't particularly agree with kos's political analysis, but he had a point about the mercenaries.

and all the outrage over his comments is simply more of the republican bullshit machine in full swing. i find it ironic that most of the people slamming his comments advocate killing innocent civilians in response to some mercenaries getting killed in the line of their work.

nothing says "republican" like the crushing of dissent.

so go here: dailykos.com