Ghost of a flea: Muslim Heidi

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August 30, 2006

Muslim Heidi

Having just watched another Americanized "War of the Worlds" I have some appreciation of the reasons people are tempted to make foreign stories local and why it is usually a bad aesthetic choice to do so. But then Toronto stands in for so many American cities on television that foreign programming often seems strangely familiar.

A minister responded yesterday to the offending revisionists: “If you like Heidi, don't try to Muslimize her; write your own Heidi book."

Quite right.

Conservation Update Part the First: Energy, Mines and Resources reminds us of the pre-Thunderdome days when we still had energy (via Daimnation!).

Conservation Update Part the Second: The is no Climate Change but Global Warming and Al Gore tries to Profit (via Tim Blair).

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 30, 2006 11:00 AM