Those darn Jews.

So I admit to some perverse pleasure in Mel Gibson's troubles. Didn't you just know that underneath the wildly violent Passion of the Christ was a cesspool of anti-Semitism? Yes, I think it was the booze talking. But so was the man. I am not Jewish - and I think all bigotry wrong - but I must say there is something especially odious about mindless remarks like"Jews cause every war". Anti-Semitism is the first refuge of the intellectually lazy. The real legacy of the Bush era is the elevation of intellectual laziness.

It is nice that Gibson apologized so quickly but the fact is he needs to apologize specifically. He did not just say awful things - he said specifically awful things about a specific group of people. He should be shunned until he directly apologizes for his anti-Semitic remarks.