<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Blame Czar]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Mark Steyn on the inverted way The Messiah&#8217;s droids <a href="http://m.ocregister.com/ocregister/db_13102/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=5575D6FBCC665167982602BA55458D02?contentguid=yHVWzIa9&amp;src=cat&amp;full=true#display" target="_blank">speak truth to power</a> and the bravery of modern artists.</p>
<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, Larry David is now doing televised NEA exhibits on his HBO show &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm.&#8221; Christians are said to be &#8220;angry&#8221; at him because of an episode in which, after he accidentally sprays his urine on a picture of Jesus, his assistant mistakes the droplets for tears and calls in her mother to witness the miracle of Christ weeping. Ha-ha! Oh, those brave transgressive artists! Of course, Christians aren&#8217;t &#8220;angry&#8221; in the sense that two U.S. residents arrested last week are. The pair  one an American citizen, the other Canadian  were so &#8220;angry&#8221; about the Muhammad cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that they hatched a plot to kill the artist and his editor. As many commentators pointed out, Mr. David&#8217;s splashy stunt is a dreary provocation: It&#8217;s easy to be provocative with people who can&#8217;t be provoked. If he were to start urinating in a more Mecca-ly direction, he&#8217;d find an entirely more motivated crowd waiting for him at the stage door.</p></blockquote>
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