Tuesday, December 19, 2006

60 MINUTES did a story this past Sunday about a find of documents created by the Nazis during the holocaust. I'm assuming that the timing of this story had more to do with refuting the recent Iranian holocaust-denial-palooza than with bringing up lousy memories for the tribe at Hanukkah. I mean, it's different to imagine 60 MINUTES doing an expose on The Crusades, say, at Christmas.

That's not the point. The point is that there was one especially awful piece of narration. I have the podcast for use in transcription:

And just look at the names of the executed. Crowded onto pages, single-spaced. It must have been tiring just to write this, let alone kill them all.

That's the thing about genocide-- it's tiring. Especially the paperwork, geez!