In Glorious Black & White

Mea culpa: The sharper-eyed among you will notice I've lifted the background art from Katsuhiro Otomo's manga "Akira". This appropriation was due as much to a time constraint as to any stylistic approach to the cartoon. Or I was drunk.

Either way, arigatou gozaimasu, Otomo-san.

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Wakayama prefecture, in case you're wondering, is the area of Japan where its fishermen enact a yearly slaughter of thousands of dolphins, as poignantly depicted in the Academy Award-winning movie "The Cove" so the reference is not quite as random as you may have thought.



=Lefty=

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"We're going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." - John Boehner, February 10, 2011.

The following is #61 in a list of Republican job creation activities since they gained control of the House in 2011. None, sad to say, have yet to result in one, single new job.

(61) 8-3-2011: The GOP is screwing everyone over, except the airlines who are reaping fat profits by stealing what used to be taxes, by refusing to fund the FAA.

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And what manner of lie is Fox News spewing today? Well, who better to spin the rotten job the GOP did with the debt ceiling debacle than the GOP themselves.

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