Ducking
Responsibility
 In
2004 a book entitled "America (The Book)
was written by the staff of Jon Stewart's "The
Daily Show". It was quite the success in
progressive circles. Among its many amusing
pages was a parody of
the malodorously
conservative
Mallard
Fillmore
comic strip. It
was described thusly:
• Panel 1 - Mallard: Liberals want to tie the hands of industry with more environmental
legislation.
• Panel 2 - Mallard: Why must we punish our most productive citizens with an
income tax?
• Panel 3 - Mallard: Ooops! I forgot to tell a joke!
To those lucky enough to have never read this comic this bit of knavery nailed
it.
I despise this comic more than all others as
it purposely offers misinformation and outright
lies in a medium usually devoted to children.
It's the Sarah Palin of comics, always leering
and winking at you but offering nothing
of any substance. To back up his lame duck arguments
the author, Bruce Tinsley, will often asterisk
readers to internet sources written
by equally bat-shit crazy conservatives. Talk
about your circle-jerks.
Why this thing is in anyone's paper is a complete mystery.
From what I've read King Features offers the
comic as "balance" to
all the liberal
comics
pushing, I suppose, forced
abortions
and
legal animal
sex and declarations of eminent domain upon
Big Oil.
Damn that Blondie and her progressive clap-trap!
The editions that showed up in this weekend's
paper seem to indicate that Mr. Tinsley is beginning
to feel the pinch of the declining newspaper
market. Not surprising considering Mr. Tinsley
is hawking a strip which insults the intelligence
of half its audience. If the
end is near for Mallard Fillmore it's not a
moment
too soon.
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This weekend was notable for three separate
reasons, all regarding cuisine.
First, I had an eggplant sandwich for
dinner on Friday night at my neighborhood Italian
joint. Actually, it was an eggplant parmesan
sub and it was delicioso.
Second, Beloved Girlfriend and I decided to make
our own bread using Jim Lahey's "no
knead" recipe. It's flour, water and
a tiny bit of yeast. That's all, and it came
out GREAT!
Third, and by a vast coincidence, we chanced
upon the food
pornography advertisements for Lurpak
butter, found on youtube. I can honestly say
that the commercials themselves were so good
it resulted in the two of us driving across
town
late on a Saturday night to a tiny natural
food store just to happily plunk down $5 for
a lump of this
stuff. We proceeded to gleefully slather it
all over our home-made bread
To be honest, it's just butter, but we're not
complaining.
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One final thing... the movie "Red" just
came out on DVD. SEE IT IMMEDIATELY! Great jumping
Jeebus
this thing was fun! I'm sorry I didn't squeeze
out a moment to catch it in the theatres. Luckily,
"Red 2" is in the works so they can count on
our two alarmingly-expanding butts in the seats
next time.
=Lefty=
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