I
Think I Can't, I Think I Cant....
I know this sounds heretical, especially from someone
who has always loved the bounty of the comic
pages, but it bugs me that Charles Schultz's "Peanuts"
is
still
being
printed
in the
nation's
dailies lo these many years
after
his death. To me, that's space in newsprint that
could be
used by new and more relevant comic strips. What
if, I ask, there's another Calvin and Hobbes or
Far Side just waiting to tickle our funny-bones but
there's just
no room in the entertainment section because readers
would
rise from their walkers and revolt
if the editors
yanked
Beetle Bailey.
So, newspaper syndicates and comic editors, just
Google "web comics" and take a peek at the the vast
trove
of
talent that lurks at the end of the hyperlinks.
Fewer comics by dead people, please.
That being said, today's
cartoon first appeared on March 3, 2016 and only
the "climate change" panel has been altered
to something more topical. Other
than that it is, if I do say so myself, an accurate
and eternal portrayal
of
the Hammerhead Republican
Party.
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The new Keith
Olbermann daily podcasts are, as expected,
a Liberal
hoot-and-a-half. In Wednesday's edition Keith asked
a psychiatrist friend why Republicans are so god-damned
hypocritical, especially
when it comes to subjects like abortion.
Her answer
was that it wasn't just simple projection. Instead,
she conjectured that these men, and it's mostly men,
had engaged in all manner of activities in their relative
youth that would have once excluded them from public
office,
had
it been publicly revealed.
But now they're in power and getting old and they fear
God's eventual judgment so
they're atoning for their copious sins by imposing
draconian restrictions on the great unwashed for the
very breach of civility they once committed. (I
don't tonally agree with her assessment but it's as
good
as anything else.)
This, of course, does not perfectly describe the actions
of people like Ted Cruz, a highly educated man
whose stance on abortion is nothing more than a sop
to his idiot voters, people he would not give the time
of day if it meant a million free trips to Cancun.
Nor does it describe other congressmen, like the soon
to be unemployed Louie Gohmert, who, speaking objectively,
is a moron.
=Lefty=
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