Writing at The Huffington Post, former SPY Magazine editor Tony Hendra notices that the poster for Michael Moore’s Sicko looks an awful lot like a cover his ex-magazine ran fourteen years ago. Here’s the side-by-side:

Hendra isn’t mad about the alleged “theft”, but he is concerned about what this little coincidence might mean for Sicko’s potential to instigate change:

We all know how things turned out for Hill. It doesn’t bode at all well that Mike chose exactly the same message. I hope I’m wrong. I hope to God Mike has more luck. I hope the HillBills make it back to the Big White House, or Obama-rama does and someone on the side of the angels and that, that proverbial rubber-clad digit is firmly inserted where only darkness dwells and the right people finally squeal like pigs.

Aside: this is the third piece I’ve read in the past week that uses the phrase “on the side of the angels” in connection with Moore (see here and here). I’m sure it’s just another coincidence, but at what point is okay for me to cry sycophancy (no homonymic pun intended)?