Saturday, June 25, 2005

EVIL IS EVERYWHERE

The still-accelerating decision by, say, restaurants—fast-food restaurants particularly, but now, increasingly, sit-down joints as well—to print their children's menus or their titles ("Kidz Only," etc.) in "kid-like," zany fonts reflects a conscious and ultimately business-based determination that the presentation of products for children will be more profitable if that presentation is anchored by visual cues that communicate certain characteristics or psychologies....

But wait. "Kid-like" fonts? "Boring" typefaces? What moral and cultural judgments about the nature of juvenility are impacted in those phrases?


--James G. Poulos in The Citizen Journal, 6/11/05

Er, James? That Billy Graham Crusade that's going on this weekend in Queens?

About five minutes from now, the Crusade is going to have a Kidz Gig (with Bibleman).

Billy Graham! A "Kidz Gig"! Argh! Satanic forces are running amok!

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