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October 13, 2008
Google Acknowledges Columbus Day
Google may be as much a left-wing cult as a company, but apparently the Don't Be Evil folks aren't too kooky to add Columbus Day to the long list of holidays they acknowledge with cutesy-pie variations of their logo.
Sure, Columbus spread the blight of European civilization to the New World, enabled the birth of the reviled USA, and eventually led to the end of festive multicultural activities like the Aztecs' assembly-line beating heart excisions. But in the interests of open-mindedness, today Google's logo looks like this:
Wait, that's not Columbus, that's Paddington Bear. It's his birthday today. Never mind.
On a tip from Mr Evilwrench.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 13, 2008 8:37 PM
Comments
jesus, seriously? it's a fucking image, clearly it's the liberal mindset killing america or something.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 13, 2008 9:30 PM
A clear-cut case of missing the forest for the trees.
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at October 13, 2008 10:50 PM
This is the company that refuses to make a logo honoring Memorial Day, right?
A host of artists even offered their services for free, since Google is apparently too strapped for cash to pay an artist.
Google Memorial Day Logo Design Contest
Assholes.
Posted by: ent at October 14, 2008 12:16 AM
Apparently a fictional bear is > than the founder of our continent.
Posted by: Sisyphus at October 14, 2008 12:48 AM
The blaspheming by the first commenter is NOT appreciated.
Posted by: Rosie at October 14, 2008 1:50 AM
A couple points, with all due respect:
1. The Vikings discovered America before Colombus did.
2. Colombus is a controversial figure, because he was believed to have persecuted and tortured Indians. The people at Google were probably afraid of getting a lot of complaints if they put up something about him.
I thought it was funny that they had Paddington there, I remember having a little Paddington toy when I was really small.
Posted by: Adam at October 14, 2008 4:27 AM
It's like, not only did they not acknowledge Columbus... but they went out of their way to show they were not acknowledging Columbus day by putting up something ridiculously trivial.
Posted by: V the K at October 14, 2008 4:46 AM
All Google special logos.
The closest Christmas has is the generic Seasons Greetings logo.
Memorial Day never has one, though Veterans day does.
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
Many of them appear randomly and for really oddball people and subjects then are never seen again.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 14, 2008 5:24 AM
Up until 2001, Google did an Easter logo, but not since.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 14, 2008 5:26 AM
Last year for VETRANS DAY a liberal news paper instead of honoring VETERANS DAY the SACRAMENTO BEE instead ran a lament that their local baskeball team the SACRAMENTO KINGS lost a game UNGREATFUL WRETCHES and SCREW THE LIBERAL IDIOTS COLUMBUS DAY
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 14, 2008 6:35 AM
Well, I was a big fan of Paddington, read all the books as a kid, laughed when the million dollar question on Millionaire was where Paddington was from. I was happy to find out about the anniversary and all, but a character from children's literature is nothing to what Columbus did.
Sure he's become controversial, especially since the post-modernists have been picking apart his later activities, but heck, the Vikings were pretty unpleasant in their own way, eh? Yeah, they seem to have got "here" first, but if you think about it, they'd already found Iceland, then Greenland, it was a matter of a weekend trip. Then they totally didn't do anything about it. I guess there wasn't any pillage available. Columbus and the crews of three ships crossed the widest part of the ocean. That took some guts. They kept trying to chicken out. I know, he didn't find what he expected, but he managed to sell the project, and it paid off.
Dammit, I remember how Columbus day was suppressed in 1992. There's not that much around that stays relevant long enough to get a 500th anniversary, and it was big stuff, however you think of subsequent events. It's just shameful, like if we were to deprecate the Apollo program for polluting the moon's pristine surface with all that stuff we left.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at October 14, 2008 7:14 AM
Google has a complex next to NASA, right? Can we change the trajectory a tad?
Posted by: Corona at October 14, 2008 12:08 PM
