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Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts

2008/10/01

A Gallery of the Highly Inadvisable

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Other, not pictured (albeit not rejected) ideas:

  1. Palin bidding adieu to her son with the words, "Have fun fighting Mommy's endless war, son!"
  2. A diagrammatic illustration of Sarah Palin's open cranium reveals a single white flag. Caption: "In the throes of cognitive surrender."
  3. Ms. Palin following her own assessment of the popular sentiment by enjoining the government to "Get out of my way!"...while drowning.
  4. The candidates and their VPs queuing up by a door labeled "The Knesset" to polish its knob.

On a much graver note, as I compose this, the greatest crime hitherto perpetrated against small independent artists--the irredeemably odious Orphan Works Act--is on the verge of being enshrined into law by the House under cover of night, while the nation is preoccupied with an economic crisis and vice presidential debate.

Passage of the legislation [sic] of record will categorically obliterate the intellectual property rights and liberties presently enjoyed by millions of artists in the United States and abroad. Needless to say, this exercise of unalloyed avarice is repugnant to the spirit of this very nation and the universal liberal principles it [purportedly] represents and expounds. It suffices to say that this is a dark day for art.

2008/09/11

2008/05/20

Acceptable Losses

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A moment of silence for Our Fearless Leader's selfless sacrifice. More on "Dubya's" shenanigans (read: verbally masturbating for the Knesset's pleasure) later this week.

2008/05/16

A Nut for All Seasons

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Uncle Sam doesn't need to be a certified neurologist to see that John McCain's gone soft in the onion. Read the rest of his program here.

On a totally unrelated note, this is hilarious:



Scathing.

2008/04/10

Still in the Dark

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Remember that perennial Mesopotamian enterprise of ours? The one that, if John McCain had his way, will end in 12,008 C.E.? Yes, that hojillion-year war. Well, as it turns out, our surge didn't bring democracy and puppies and rainbows to the Iraqis after all. Worse, even the heretofore much-trumpeted security gains are apparently delicate and reversible. Meanwhile, the Iraqi army can't seem to quite stand on its own, let alone fight Sadr & Co., and the presence of American boots on the ground increases local resentment by the day.

Fiddlesticks!

Fortunately, Our Fearless Leader remains safely above such depressing things as "facts" and "reality."

UNRELATED UPDATE:

On the Hyde Park Front, Fifth Ward Alderman--and renowned dirty dancer--Leslie Hairston has decided to leave the 171 stop alone. Rumor has it that she'll actually perform the "parking dance." What's next? A Youtube-fueled global dance movement? The mind salivates at the possibilities.

2008/02/04

Role Reversal

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Whatever happened to the old McCain? Or, more properly, what happened to McCain's sensibilities? I'm starting to think that he had none to begin with.

2008/01/28

Stretching It

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Words cannot adequately capture how bloody ecstatic I am that this is Our Fearless Leader's last State of the Union speech. The caffeine that courses through my veins where blood once flowed probably also helped.

On a somewhat related note, this is the 100th inked & colored cartoon of 2007-2008. That's 300-500 hrs. of love-filled, caffeine-motivated, and wholly unpaid labor.

2008/01/14

COTD: 08.01.14

There'll be a cartoon on Mike Huckabee (a.k.a. The Huckster) later to-night. In the meantime, here are my picks for today's best "damn pictures."

Cartoons of the Day:

Gary Varvel (On change)



Gary Varvel
Indianapolis Star
Jan 14, 2008


Matt Bors (On The Huckster)



Matt Bors
Village Voice, Cleveland Free …
Jan 14, 2008


Ted Rall (On McCain's Iraq policy)



Ted Rall
Universal Press Syndicate
Jan 14, 2008

2007/12/21

Body Politic

Or what's left of it, anyhow. On a related note, there's something terribly wrong when I can't perform a Google search for "Iraqi civilian" (to get an idea of what the local attire looks like) without having to sift through page after page of mutilated corpses.