Mounting Strangeness at Google

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs notes that Google has been running recruitment ads for Hamas. Yes that Hamas. No, I'm not joking. Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin notes that Google - which changed its logo for UN World Water Day - did nothing today for Easter: not even a cute little secular bunny with colored eggs, as I recall them doing in previous years. (The Wayback Machine doesn't display Google's logo for past dates - I checked.) Nope, just an ordinary day. Wouldn't want to recognize the most important holiday in one of the most important traditions shaping Western Civilization, a philosophical cornerstone influencing the founding documents of this country and oh yeah, one other thing: the promise of eternal life and salvation for all mankind. No, World Water Day is definitely more important. After all, we wouldn't want to be counted as part of the metastasizing national theocracy that Maureen Dowd is all worked up about, now would we? And they say secularism isn't a religion. Well, I'm happy to wave a red flag in front of that bull:

Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

UPDATE I: I fully recognize the irony of publishing this stuff on a Google platform - one of several problems looming for bloggers.

UPDATE II: Adding to the frustration of Michelle and Charles in getting listed on Google News, Captain's Quarters reports that it has disappeared from Google altogether - though the explanation is mundane - a bad advertiser.

UPDATE III: An archive of Google 'holiday' logos can be found here.