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Discendo Vox posted:In brief, yeah, that appeared to have been the motivating factor. That is incredibly hosed up. I'll take a couple, if we're splitting them up.
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; Clay Bennett  And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Jeff Danziger  Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. Marty Two Bulls  It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Lisa Benson  Signifying nothing. Steve Kelley 
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All the chickens come on home to roost Plump bodies blotting out the sky You know it breaks my heart in half, in half When I see them trying to fly Jeff Danziger  John Deering  Jeff Stahler  Matt Davies  KAL 
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I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,— Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking. Clay Bennett  Marty Two Bulls  Lisa Benson  Steve Kelley  John Deering  Matt Davies  KAL 
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Welcome, Monsieur, sit yourself down And meet the best House member in town As for the rest, all of 'em crooks Taking their naps and reading their books Seldom do you see Honest men like me A gent of good intent Who's content to be Jeff Stahler  Doling out the charm Ready with the flop-sweat and a greasy palm Tries for what he can, sees what he can keep House members appreciate a spineless creep Glad to do a friend a favor, though it costs him to be nice 'Cuz nothing gets you nothing: everything has got a little price Clay Bennett  Speaker of the House, keeper of the zoo Though any one of them can now vote him out too Everything's for sale, reasonable rates Swallowing his bile to shake hands with Gaetz Everybody loves the Speaker Everybody's bosom friend They do whatever pleases Jesus! Won't they bleed him in the end John Deering  Speaker of the House, quick to call a vote Making quite a hash of things that should be rote Scorner of the poor, toady to the great Think he'll serve a term or will he abdicate? Everybody's boon companion Everybody raise your beer! But if he stops a shutdown Jesus! He'll be right out on his ear Ann Telnaes  Enter Monsieur, hand me your vote I'll kneel on the floor and show you my throat Please help me out, my life's in your hands I accept no matter what your demands Here his goose is cooked Here his fat is fried And nothing's overlooked Till they're satisfied
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In this world of his comic, God is definitely real and multiple main characters have evidence of the no-poo poo existence of both God and Satan and various devils. Of course, God is also a huge jerk in the comic, and I assume we're supposed to forget about that part at this point and take it as a comment on the real world instead.
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Jan 9, 2023 05:26
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"Don't worry, he'll put on an rear end in a top hat puppet show for your friend later."
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Clay Bennett Steve Kelley  Apologies for this batch; I'll resize them to something more sane next time so they don't have to be t'imged. (Didn't notice until after I'd reuploaded them already.) Lee Judge  Mike Smith  Kirk Walters 
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Beautiful. Vib Rib posted:Still laughing at the personification of 2022 dying on January 8th 2023. You know, the date when the year is over. It's been pointed out a bunch of times, but if you put the loving personification of a year in your comic and have that person die on New Year's Day... like, maybe make those things line up? It's not like you don't know the new year is coming. You know, when you switch the calendar over to December or maybe even November you might want to make a plan about how you're going to handle this.
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I was seriously considering just posting it daily. I'm not sure if the concentrated dose is better or worse, really.
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Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays — 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A Cuticle of Dust A Borer in the Axis An Elemental Rust — Ruin is formal — Devil's work Consecutive and slow — Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping — is Crashe's law — Clay Bennett  Lisa Benson  Jeff Stahler  Ann Telnaes  Lee Judge  Mike Smith  Ed Gamble  David M. Hitch 
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Jan 10, 2023 08:33
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She'll probably only shoot people who've slept with prostitutes or watched porn, though, so that's alright since those people are moral voids. In an unrelated discussion, did you ever hear that the University of Montreal once tried to perform a study on how watching porn for the first time affected men? They had to cancel that portion of the work because they could not locate any men in their twenties who had not watched porn.
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Clay Bennett Jeff Danziger  Jeff Stahler  Mike Smith  Jimmy Margulies  Ed Gamble  "Well, thank you for trying, President Mexico." David M. Hitch 
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I'm confused about why anyone thinks you can't boil water just fine on an electric stove. Jeff Danziger  Marty Two Bulls  Lisa Benson  Ann Telnaes  Lee Judge  Mike Smith  Jimmy Margulies  Ed Gamble  David M. Hitch  Bill Bramhall 
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Jan 12, 2023 16:25
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Pleasant Friend posted:Its less efficient to boil water on any stove time/energy wise compared to just boiling the water in a electric kettle and pouring it into your pot after. Generally speaking, an induction stove with appropriately-designed kettle is considered to be even more efficient, so if that's the main concern you should probably ditch the electric kettle and go for that instead. (Of course, the most impactful consideration is whether you use all the water you heat; changing that will probably do more good than anything else for most people.)
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Jan 12, 2023 18:21
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Twelve by Pies posted:Have any of the anthropomorphic years been male? It could be the opposite. "She's a girl but (((THEY))) brainwash her into thinking she's a boy by using the football helmet!" They always used to be men. I think the first female year was... 2017? I think she came in wearing a football helmet, too.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutored youth, Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? Oh, love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told. Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flattered be. Clay Bennett  Mike Smith  Jimmy Margulies  David M. Hitch  Bill Bramhall 
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Ann Telnaes Jeff Danziger  ... ... ... Peter Kuch (1963)  "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have never yet engaged in a direct-action movement that was "well timed" according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never." It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "friend of the family" and your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and when your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodyness" -- then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience." -Martin Luther King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963) Charles Brooks (1967)  Clifford “Baldy” Baldowski (1964)  Herbert "Herblock" Block (1968)  Jack Knox (1967)  Bill Sanders (late 1960s)  Charles Bissell (1968) 
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Murdstone posted:This was a pretty big problem in the early 60s. African dignitaries were being refused service and abused while visiting the US. I heard a great podcast about it but I don’t remember where, so here’s an article. Possibly this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6UoDL3Xhs
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Neito posted:What? "The Democrats keep trying to create equality, and the Republicans keep trying to eliminate it."
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"Republicans' obsession with being anti-woke has left them asleep at the wheel when it comes to governance." The opposite of "woke" is asleep, see. 
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kartikeya posted:I really like Telnaes' caricatures, they're really good with a few notable exceptions (Eric Trump, for some reason). Thomas is cracking me up in this one. Ann Telnaes is, no poo poo, one of the best political cartoonists in the business right now. It's even better when she does animations.
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DalaranJ posted:Hitch's caricature's are just as elaborate as Telnaes' but I never recognize any of them? And for that matter, I generally have no idea what he's talking about. Are his cartoons directed at a specific state? I'm not sure if these are supposed to be specific people or not. In this case, the story he's referencing might be this one: https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the...-public-schools It's also possible he's just going after equity coaches in general, because positions like that are bugbears for the Right. It can be hard to tell sometimes unless you exist inside that media bubble and already know what things they've decided to be mad about lately. Clay Bennett  Lisa Benson  Matt Davies 
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Re: whether wind farms hurt whales, the answer is "probably not": https://www.opb.org/article/2023/01/18/feds-say-offshore-wind-not-to-blame-for-east-coast-whale-deaths/
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I'm still looking for my own version of America One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly No bombs in the sky, only fireworks when you and I collide It's just a dream I had in mind Clay Bennett  Jeff Stahler  Matt Davies  Tell potentates, they live Acting by others’ action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction. If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie. Tell men of high condition, That manage the estate, Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate. And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Pedro X. Molina  Lee Judge  Mike Smith  Jimmy Margulies  Ed Gamble  David M. Hitch  
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Jeff Danziger Kellies Nomination: Worst Cartoon about The War in Ukraine Marty Two Bulls  Working for food. What a strange concept! Lisa Benson  A Good Cartoon Jeff Stahler  An Actual Good Cartoon Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher  I don't know if it's intentional, but it really looks like that bear's snout would perfectly plug up the tank's gun here. Pedro X. Molina  Pictured: Frankenstein's neck-guns fire past his arms in either direction, confusing him for some reason. Kirk Walters  "Is truth unchanging law?" John Branch  That well-known cliche of cats being absolutely terrified of giant magnifying glasses. Jimmy Margulies  Forgot the third bag that says "tweets" (and maybe a fourth labelled "political cartoons"). Ed Gamble  Ed Gamble: for when you absolutely, positively need a punchline with six times more words than necessary. David M. Hitch  I can't tell you how many times I've gotten together with my friends, pressed my face up against theirs, and repeated deceptive Republican talking points one sentence at a time. Mike Peters  I want to focus on the content but all I can think of is how much the way he's drawn those makes them look like red Mickey Mouse Club hats. Drew Sheneman  Please pretend I found some comment to make about this incredibly accurate cartoon.
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Like a lot of cartoonists (and a lot of people, really), Hitch (as he annoyingly refers to himself in the third person) has a kind of default that he falls back on when he can't think of anything particularly clever to do, and for him it's this parade of caricature heads just flat-out saying the thing he wants to say. He definitely is capable of drawing other things, although the style he uses here is pretty much always how he draws human faces. Some examples: 1  2  3  4  (this one is about a local issue - the MBTA, popularly known as "The T", is the public transit authority here in Massachusetts) 5  (also a local issue, about former governor Deval Patrick) 6  7  Even in these, although there's a wider range of subjects, you can kind of see his limits in terms of perspective and composition. Of course, the man is also a colossal loving moron, but that just goes with the territory.
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For context, that cartoon is from April of 2015, and is about this: https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/baker-moves-to-restructure-management-of-mbta/article_8c54aac8-e922-11e4-9e04-a7a4d8cba47c.html Despite the apparent intervention of large men with nail boards, this structure was put into place later that year. The state senate defanged some of Baker's proposed "reforms", but a lot of 2015 was spent arguing about the best way of fixing the MBTA; in general, his plan was the usual thing of privatizing whatever possible and trying to make the public transportation system wholly self-sufficient by raising fares and cutting costs. The Carmen's Union (Carmen is not a name, but a description - the men of train cars) has a small amount of negotiating power, which he wanted to strip away, so they lobbied pretty hard against his changes.
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