Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

"It's a kick to your belly," said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas. "I understand these guys are scientists and engineers and they have their quirks and want to make sure people are recognized who might not normally be recognized . . . but why not celebrate the struggles that we've come through as a people?"

Conservatives see the Sputnik logo as particularly galling because the search giant's in-house artist has tweaked the Google logo for a variety of obscure events, including World Water Day, Persian New Year, painter Edvard Munch's birthday and China's Dragon Boat Festival.

Oh boo hoo you whining maggots. They want to play with shit, and the stuff they play with is stuff they can have fun with or stuff they consider cool. Maybe they could do the bit like the Mount Suribachi thing with the logo but never thought of it. The Sputnik 50th anniversary is something that screams attention and they figured out a fun way to do it. If conservatives don't like it, they should build their own Google to do crap like this with, and then watch it go right down the tank just like The 1/2 Hour News Hour.