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A river runs through Egypt
Mel Gibson's "unfortunate experience"

It came as no surprise to your blogstress when Mel Gibson , in the course of promoting his upcoming cinematic bloodfest, "Apocalypto," expressed sympathy for his fellow bigot, Michael Richards . What did surprise your cybertrix, however, was Gibson's demonstration of denial as to the nature of his own crime. One would have thought that some brilliant public-relations consultant would have drilled into the patron saint of the Catholic right the need to at least appear to take responsibility for whatever venom spews , via one's own brain, from one's own mouth. In an AP report , Gibson says he doesn't expect his celebrated rant to affect box office on the movie: The movie will stand on its own, regardless of any unfortunate experience I may have stumbled upon." Stumbled upon? As in, I was just weaving my inebriated self home when I stumbled upon a torrent of anti-Semitic taunts flowing out of my mouth at a Jewish police officer, upon whom I had also stu