...if Toni and Tom explained themselves for us-- but, let's face it: it would be mighty hard not to fling poo at them.

Maybe they can sit one one of those chairs like they have at carnivals so we can dunk them with well-tossed baseballs.

"The typeface was awful!" Whiz! Splash! Dingdingding! "Kansas' features didn't change for several entire strips!" Whish! Gurgle! Yay! "Neither one of them understand anything about the structure and conventions of comics!" Whoosh! Double-sploosh! Alright!

(I really need the late, great Don Martin to supply the sound effects.)

Step right up ladies and gents! Dunk the clowns!

Well, I can dream, can't I????

Texbill, thank you so much; your check from Toni Schlesinger is in the mail.

Senor Swanky, a second new defender of KOF appears less than 30 minutes from the first one, and just like texbill, this is the first letter he's posted on Salon. Coincidence? I think not. Looks like Toni and Tom are anxious to dress up this rotten corpse...

For four months people have written letters that outline in detail exactly what they thought was wrong with the strip while providing examples and links to other, better strips. It would be impossible to overlook them, unless you're another shill.

...is that the author and the soi-disant artist responsible for this strip have made no attempt to engage us in any way, either to explain themselves, justify their style, respond to the multitude of critics of their work posting here and elsewhere, or in any way show that they give a shit or are learning from their obvious mistakes. Instead, they hide behind shills.

...what if you found a fried mouse in your bucket of wings and, upon contacting the management, nobody would talk to you about it? Flat-out stonewall you? That's the treatment we were getting from Toni and Tom and, most importantly, from Salon.

Kinda reminds me of the Firesign Theatre ad for Giant Toad Supermarkets:

"...and don't worry about the flies, lady-- we won't weigh them."

...but no sane person lives in Central Illinois.

"For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so..."

-Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Click on my name for a link.

...hopefully it won't take you as long to act on them as it did to remove that awful Kansas O'Flaherty strip.

When Reagan was president, he had Nancy and his handlers to keep him from doing too much that was obvious evidence of senility. Bush's staffers, on the other hand, are either too incompetent to keep him from embarrassing himself, simply don't give a shit about public opinion, or are gleefully letting him hang himself.

Kansas O'Flaherty is still cancelled!

(And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.)

Well, the phrase "whoring sea donkeys" comes to mind, and Heather showed great restraint in not using it. I, on the other hand, have no such inhibition.

...Brightstar65 will jump in with his theories about life on Mars. And so it goes...

...is the following quote:

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey

Latvia:

7.8 births/1,000 population

Bulgaria:

8.06 births/1,000 population

Estonia:

8.45 births/1,000 population

Russia:

9.02 births/1,000 population

Ukraine:

9.03 births/1,000 population

Czech Republic:

9.1 births/1,000 population

Italy:

9.13 births/1,000 population

...and in fact is considered by many not to be the major cause. According to a white paper published by the Sierra Club:

"Even in developing countries

with high population growth

rates, global warming pollution

is still far lower than that

of developed countries such

as the United States."

The US contributes nearly 25% of the world's carbon emission, yet the US accounts for less than 5% of thw world's population.

Blue Amberol, there are other kinds of growth besides population growth. You may want to get your facts straight before you pontificate.

... see

http://www.sierraclub.org/population/factsheets/globalwarming-population.pdf

Blue Amberol was in such a hurry to inflict his opinion on us, he missed an important clue: the disguised cancer cell says, "Bully For Business," which leads me to believe that the point being made has more to do with economics and big business-- not population, global warming, or any of the rest of BA's screed.

If so, you can add B&E to the list of charges. Reminds me of a button I once saw: "I reserve the right to take anything that's not nailed down, and to pry up anything that *is* nailed down."

...the vice principal would chase down girls wearing open-toed shoes, demanding that their toes be covered. She later ruled that band-aids did *not* constitute adequate cover.

Last night I dreamed I ate a giant marshmallow, I woke up this morning and my pillow was gone.

- Chic Murray

they couldn't possibly be part of the NASA conspiracy to cover up the existence of trees on Mars.

...which "you" are you referring to?

Check out Wikipedia for details about Morris, his toe-sucking fetish, and the fact that he owes more than a quarter of a million dollars in unpaid taxes.

Who knew?

If penguins don't have

nipples, then where do all the

sparks come from? (Oop, ack!)