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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:00 AM

Tom the Dancing Bug

Introducing cereal mascots guaranteed not to appeal to kids. Martin Amis for Apple Jacks, anyone?

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 07:17 PM

I would pay five bucks for a box of Klaus Kinski Froot Loops.

Oh wait, they're probably more than that already.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 08:26 PM

"Down For The Count" by Christopher Hitchens

I loved that Christopher Hitchens essay that showed the supposedly benign Count Chocula for the cruel, morally bankrupt tyrant he really is.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 08:35 PM

Brilliant

This comic is the most brilliant Tom the Dancing Bug I have ever seen.

Absolutely hilarious.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 08:49 PM

intellectual . . .

but funny! (and stays crispy in milk!)

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 08:57 PM

if you think that's funny...

Be sure to watch the on-line ad for the fancy butt-washing contraption. Just click on the row of smiley bottoms.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 09:46 PM

Danke Ruben

I too know the cruel sting of weltschmertze and the ameliorative properties that only Die Loops Von Froot can bring when the tit of mother happiness has run dry.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 09:53 PM

Who are those people and what do them big words mean?

I have no idea of the difference between a deontologist and a consequentialist, but I love it anyway.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:11 AM

Whoa...

Okay, that was seriously weird in a good way. I love esoteric humor - so odd I had to think about it for more than a bit.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 06:36 AM

Consequentialism v. Deontonlogy

From Wiki:

Consequentialism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, on a consequentialist account, a morally right action is an action which produces good consequences.

Consequentialism is usually understood as distinct from both deontology, which derives the rightness or wrongness of an act from the nature of the act itself.

I wish I was as smart and funny as Ruben Bolling.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 07:21 AM

Loved it

Thank you thank you thank you for the Immanuel Kant joke.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 07:28 AM

Cereal Killer

The Klaus Kinski panel was inspired, but the Kant panel was brilliant. Well done, old mole!

Thursday, July 12, 2007 08:16 AM

It tickles my pseudo-intellectual funny bone!

And reminiscent of an old, often-cited favorite, "Breakfast Theory" by Jeff Reid, visible here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33032196@N00/62027592/

Post-Modern Toasties: Like everything you've had before, all mixed up!

Thursday, July 12, 2007 08:46 AM

Alles ist verloren

Very funny stuff. Even funny comics rarely make me chuckle aloud, but this one had my cubicle neighbors looking at me curiously.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 04:59 PM

but the post-structuralist in me loves the frosted side!

Tom the Dancing Bug is probably the biggest reason I got a subscription.

Friday, July 13, 2007 07:59 AM

Cereal killer for a Killer Sereal

Tom the Dancing Bug is probably the smartest comic since the Far Side.

Sunday, July 15, 2007 10:04 AM

Anyone else notice

that Martin Amis looks like Charlie, the little Neanderthal guy, except clean-shaven?

Kids, Eat non-sugar-coated Pebbles, with 100% real rocks!

Monday, July 23, 2007 08:04 AM

Deontology

...is the understanding of moral theory based around the concept of duty. Thus, any given act will have a deontic status (permissible, forbidden, obligatory) depending on what duties are outlined by the theory. For Kant, the primary duty of all human beings was to treat other human beings as 'ends in themselves'.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 01:36 PM

Dancing Bug, Ach Du!

A 10.0 on the Kinski-meter.

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