Aug 12 2005

Hyperbolic Claims of Right Wing Crackpots (Surprisingly) True!

Pro-life types are all fire worked up over a web animation produced by Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (San Francisco) that supposedly features a pro-choice superhero who kills protesters outside abortion clinics, portrays Christians as Snidely Whiplash-types, and depicts pro-life types as overall-wearing hillbilly zombies. I read about some of this and assumed that likely such a cartoon really didn’t exist… or at the very least these claims were highly exagerated. But, surprisingly, it’s all true…and pretty hilarious. I predict that the movie will be taken offline soon, but it’s still there as of this morning:

A Super-Hero for Choice!

Pro-life
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Aug 12 2005

Left Wing Crackpot (Surprisingly) Admits Error!

Annoying pest/wannabe reporter/mediocre cartoonist Ted Rall has surprisingly issued a “retraction” of the following “cartoon.” I use quotations in the first case, because I’m not sure that one can really retract a cartoon, and in the second case because the item in question doesn’t seem to be so much a cartoon as simply a graphical mouthpiece for Rall himself. The lesson: If you’ve decided to be a reporter instead of a cartoonist, you need to start fact checking…you know, like real reporters do.

Rall's foolishness
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Aug 11 2005

NPR : Bush: Leaving Iraq Now Would Be ‘Mistake’

NPR : Bush: Leaving Iraq Now Would Be ‘Mistake’

I’m glad that the president has finally acknowleged Cindy Sheehan—protesting mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who’s now camping outside the W’s ranch—but when will he address the growing problem of showboating metal bassist Billy Sheehan?!

Mr. Big
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Aug 11 2005

Midnight Sun – Characters

Here’s another character: Gen. Nobile, shown here far older than he will ever appear in the book.

Nobile
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Aug 09 2005

August’s Dachshund