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Could somebody get the Lord out my inbox?

Monday, 07 February 2000


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I am glad that computer technology continues to devolve down to the masses. I like getting e-mail from septuagenarian relatives, really. But I am convinced that allowing ignorant people to paste photos into e-mail, without even having to type "img src", is pure evil.

AOL's Steve Case, aka Beelzebub, leads the way in this and other boob-empowerment. So now, holy rollers with AOL accounts have moved beyond leafletting, and turned to spamming tacky electronic images of our Lord.

I guess that's where the L.A. NewTimes guy gets all his Jesus of the Week pictures. So some good comes of it.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer that sort of thing to be painted on black velvet and hung on the plywood-paneled wall of a double-wide.


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