June 2009
“[T]he fool Man will oppose everything except a Hand Extended…he will stand...”
– Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
“As I’ve said before… American gun nuts are always going on about how...”
– Dan Savage
“If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was...”
– Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, on her refusal to fill out a complete census form, via TPMDC
So, this post over at boingboing (which links to something that is really and truly fantastic), led me to another boingboing article, which I will let speak for itself
In her chambers at the U.S. Court of International Trade, in New York, the judge examined Prof. X and the rest of his band of X-Men, all of them little plastic figures at the heart of a six-year tariff battle between their owner,...
Reason #1 to love the Cosby Show:
Lines like “Rudy, what Dad is trying to say is, your fish is decreased.”
(image via TVLAND)
I’m about to begin my calling for the summer: I’m going to watch every Woody Allen movie, beginning with Broadway Danny Rose right now, and then I’m going to write about it.
Wish me luck.
(Image via Robot 6)
Bill Willingham’s Fables is one of my favorite comics; the concept of moving characters from fairy tales into the modern world borders on genious, the writing is unhindered by some of the more troublesome conventions of a more mainstream superhero title, the characterization is unmatched, the art (usually done by Mark Buckhingham) is strong and aids in the...
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From SCOTUSblog:
The McDonald petition involves four Chicago residents, the Second Amendment Foundation and the Illinois State Rifle Association, all challenging a handgun ban in Chicago. Their petition said the ban is identical to one struck down by the Supreme Court in its Second Amendment ruling last June in District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290).
The Heller decision, however, applied only...
This is EXACTLY why I love David Aja’s art; it’s got a kinetic beauty that can do as much storytelling as the dialogue. I just love the way that he endows the Iron Fist, adding an element of humor that accentuates the writing of Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction and that is sorely lacking since he left the title; even before you see the text bubble in the final panel, the change in mood...
This is a Manifesto.
I miss the things that I love.
I had forgotten what those things were, because I went off to college and I couldn’t break the worse habit that I have: taking myself to seriously. I was trying to be a person that I’m not, and I don’t like that person who I’m not.
The person that I do like is who I am, and all the following things are true: I like comedy, I like baseball,...
Andrew Sullivan, as usual, gets it right:
In many respects this was not a speech, as traditionally understood. It was an intervention.
The Middle East is addicted to its past; Obama spoke of the need to move into the future. The Middle East is fixated on conflict and identity; Obama emphasised quotidian common interests. The Middle East loves quibbles; Obama landed slap-bang in the middle...
I don’t understand Fargo. I maybe I do understand it, and I just don’t like it.
Furthermore, I am involved in the process of cleaning my room.
Yich.
