and a Happy Thanksgiving to all.

This might be Tom Tomorrow's most brilliant strip yet, or his worst, who knows?

Thanks, Salon, for your brilliant new site design

Sincerely fuck you,

Please don't mention Sarah Palin and Annie Oakely in the same breath. Annie Oakley was the real article, an accomplished woman with a genuine, amazing skill. In her personal life, Annie is said to have been a quiet and modest woman, quite unlike the brash character portrayed in some movies and the Broadway show.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand is a publicity-seeking phony.

Thanks, Joan, for taking your valuable time to point out the latest sexism in another publication.

Now, here's a suggestion for something that YOU can do to improve the national discourse. Stop allowing a certain female commentator (hint: she's got almost as big a crush on SP as Readereader) to continue to publish distortions about a certain female elected official (hint: Nazis) in YOUR very own webzine.

..but they sink like a stone once you step across.

Just kidding, I love our Canadian neighbors and only wish we could copy their health care system.

Another thing, I decided to fact-check GK's claim that 41 Senators representing 10% of the population It's true! The combined populations of the 21 smallest states total about 33 million of the total US population of 304 million (okays' it's really 10.8% -but close enough for government work). Luckily for us, a number of those small states - Vermont, Maine and New Hamphire are on the Canadian border. On the other hand, we've also got Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and North Dakota.

Hmmmm ... maybe we should be wary of these geographical generalizations

Ms. Paglia, as you are a university professor, there is no excuse for this.

From your second paragraph: "... Pelosi struggled to deal with the nationwide insurgency of town hall protesters -- reputable, concerned citizens whom she outrageously tried to tar as Nazis."

Pelosi did not try to "tar' anyone as a Nazi. Whether those who came to the town hall meetings to protest the proposed health care bills were a bona fide "nationwide insurgency" or an "Astoturf" movement, one could reasonably debate. However, Speaker Pelosi(truthfully) pointed out that many of those protesters came to the meetings carrying signs showing President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache or adorned with swastikas. She did not state or imply that the protesters were Nazis. Rather she (reasonably) pointed out that the attempt of these "reputable, concerned citizens" to tar President Obama and the bills' supporters as Nazis did not add constructively to the health care debate. Her comments, of course, were completely misrepresented and turned on their head by the right wing talk radio blowhards that you so admire.

It is outrageous that a person of your education can be given a platform to comment on public issues and use it to disseminate lies and propaganda. Honestly, you have no special expertise in the fields of health care or public policy. You are as entitled as any other citizen to express your opinion, but as an educated person and indeed an educator, you should know enough to base those opinion on fact.

And you, Joan Walsh, should be ashamed as well for continuing to give this woman a public platform from which to continue to spout such nonsense.

It's the right wing SOP. Facts don't matter. You can invent your own reality.

This happens so often and has been going on for so long that any shock value has long since disappeared. Just as Glenn pointed out in an earlier post regarding state secrecy and torture, most people don't notice any more.

Oops, sorry.

trying over and over agoan to open the rest of an Al Gore interview?

Thanks "New Look" Salon!

Here's what watching Fox does to your brain:

"Scandinavia? Are you joking, or are you trying to win Most Valueless Dumbass? The number of all the Scandinavians IN THE WORLD are fewer than the population of Long Island, shit for brains. There are 300 million people in the United States. It's a slightly different situation.

Look, why don't you go back on your meds and leave the adult conversations to the grown ups."

-- spoincey

The facts:

Population of Kings County (Brookly), NY: 2.5 million

Population of Queens County, NY: 2.3 million

Population of Nassau County, NY: 1.4 million

Population of Suffolk County, NY: 1.5 million

The population of Long Island: 7.7 million

Population of Sweden: 8.8 million

Well we don't have to go any further, of course, but just for fun ...

Population of Norway: 4.8 million

Population of Finnland: 5.3 million.

Two other countries are commonly referred to as "Scandinavian," although not on the Scandinavian peninsula. The people of these two countries most definitely share cultural traits with the countries above.

Population of Denmark: 5.5 million

Population of Iceland: 0.3 million

The number of all Scandinavians in the world: 24.7 million

Fox News = Fact Free Zone

Binh there. Dong that.

He was atually my great uncle. I didn't know him well because he died when I was very little, but he left me the best advice of my life. Uncle Owen, who had been wounded in World War I, once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him I wanted to be in the army like my Daddy. My father and grandfather were career officers in the Army.

Unlce Owen smiled and said that was fine, but, if he had it to do over again, he would never be a soldier for all the tea in China.

Not content with seeing tens of thousands of brown skinned foreigners blown to bloody shreds, and millions more made refugees in their own lands, Joe now wants to let thousands of Americans waste away and die slowly of disease.

So that's your game, eh? If you want to see your favorite cartoon, you have to go to BETA SALON! BWA-HA-HA-HA.