… cartoonists. Really, I do. Not just because they can make me have a good chuckle from time to time, but also because it can be downright eerie sometimes how they can give you a peek behind the curtain of what’s on the collective mind.
They can be complimentary or insulting (sometimes both simultaneously), insightful or oblivious, highbrow or crude. They can be impartial observations or blatantly partisan hackery. Yes some, like the much-missed team of Cox and Forkum that we lost in January of this year, are better than others. But one thing that all the good ones manage to do, whether you like it or not, is to get you to think. That’s been on my mind lately.
Soooooooo… with that in mind (because, God knows, we could all use a little light something before the Election Anvilâ„¢ clobbers us all like Wile E. Coyote), let’s have a quick look at what the little scamps have been up to (click to bigulate, of course)… (more…)
So I’m sitting around last night, having me a nice cold beer, when the phone rings. It’s Debbie calling from down in Houston. Some of you who have been around long enough might remember her as a pretty regular commentor, back when she had more free time on her hands.
“Did you just see that??”
Well, since we obviously weren’t looking out the same window, the answer would likely be no; but whatever it was, she sounded pretty happy. Turns out she’d just finished watching VP nominee Sarah Palin addressing the RNC and she was pretty damned impressed.
“I can’t believe that a politics junkie like you missed that! You have so got to get your ass online and check it out; you’ll love it!”
I explained that American politics are pretty easy to miss when we likely have an election of our own coming up (she had no idea), but she was pretty adamant. She kept insisting that I’d love watching this. Turns out she was right. Now, I had already suspected that Palin was my kinda gal: gun-totin’, great gams, knows how to field dress a moose – what’s not to like? But I had no idea that she also had a wit like the barb on a fishhook! Check it out for yourself in the vids below:
Okay, maybe not. I have no idea at all how this ends. I got as far as “You shoulda got Michelle Obama ta be yo’ runnin’ mate, now that woulda been somethin’ strategic and fly” and had to go change my pants. No idea when was the last time I laughed that hard.
You’d never see this in Canada, but jolly old England actually has a TV broadcaster with the balls to do this sort of thing. First there was Undercover Mosque. Then the predictable stink followed:
Racism!
Islamophobia®!
How dare you catch us in the act of being assholes, and then put it on TV!
Blah, blah, blah, three bags full. When they finally got it through their little medieval skulls that they’d been caught red-handed, nobody gave a damn if they were offended or not, and their faux indignation was only going to piss people off more, they promised that they’d clean up their act.
Fat chance. Now, we have Undercover Mosque: The Return, and it’s all nothing but same shit, different day…
… this just might go a bit of a ways towards explaining how they seem to have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of boneheads willing to blow themselves to confetti…
BEIT AWWA, West Bank – A mentally disabled brother and sister are seeing the outside world after being kept in isolated rooms in a West Bank house for about 40 years.
Palestinian police found the two during a raid aimed at finding Hamas militants and criminals.
A police officer said Wednesday they heard unusual noises. When they investigated, they found the brother and sister. Villagers did not know they were there.
The family said they hid the two away because of the stigma a family faces if it has mentally disabled children. Also, they said, there were no institutions that could take them in.
A disabled rights activist said there are probably many other such cases, partly because of the common practice among Palestinians of first cousins marrying each other.
… or are crime and criminals just getting outright Goddamned weird these days?
Let’s face it, I always thought criminals (like their liberal excusemongers) were kooks to begin with, but this is getting bizarre, even by my standards.
First, there’s the guy in Calgary, who’s likely to end up responsible for the rest of us being saddled with a National Pooper-lid Registry®:
Cops say a man attacked early yesterday with the lid of a toilet tank suffered critical head injuries.
Last night he was clinging to life while police were trying to figure out why the attack at Cowboys Niteclub happened about 2 a.m., leaving with the man in his mid-20s unconscious on the floor.
[…]
Although the choice of weapon is unusual, Robitaille said he is not surprised by what a desperate criminal will do when motivated to unleash violence.
“It’s an improvised weapon, a weapon of opportunity,” Robitaille said.
“But it’s not a shock, people committed to perpetrating violence will amaze you at what they will (use) to injure another person.”
Charges are pending, he said.
Uh-huh. Okay, whatever.
Then there’s the question, what the hell do you do with a situation like this??…
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.
A grand jury on Thursday indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on one count of injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. She previously had been charged with capital murder.
Rosales weighs nearly 1,000 pounds and cannot fit through a door to leave her home, leaving prosecutors wondering how to bring her to court.
… cartoonists. Really, I do. Not just because they can make me have a good chuckle from time to time, but also because it can be downright eerie sometimes how they can give you a peek behind the curtain of what’s on the collective mind.
So I’m sitting around last night, having me a nice cold beer, when the phone rings. It’s Debbie calling from down in Houston. Some of you who have been around long enough might remember her as a pretty 
