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\nGibson blood money? Whether the term is
\nmurdered person,” or as 2) “reward for information about a murder,” or as 3) money “paid to a
\nhired murderer,” I’d say it applies in all three degrees. But that’s only a secondhand guess. To
\nknow firsthand, I would have to pay to see the flick. That I won’t do. <\/P>
\n
\nfantasy<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, or maybe a snuff trip more accurately titled
\nChainsaw Massacre”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> — I leave to
\nit’s purposely anti-Semitic. Something I do know, without seeing Gibson’s flick, is that it’s one
\nmore signal of a perverse cultural moment. Add it to our Maximum (“I’m a War
\nPresident”) Leader’s call for a
\nmarriage<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> and Der (“No Two Ways About It”) Gropenfuhrer’s
\nwe’ve got a three-fer.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"