Letters to the Editor
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A Hot Toddy
Is Hillary handing out hot toddys? Heat it with Napalm for an overkill.
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Berkeley
It takes balls to nail it right on the spot...when you're hot you're hot, when you're not, you're not.
You hit it home hot and hard, if truth had a patrician, you'd be its bard.
Hillarious!
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The characterizations
are a little too Mallard Fillmore for me. But I like it anyway.
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Right On
As a resident of one of the only three of four blue counties in Indiana, thank you.
Of course, I'd also like a send-up of those young zealots that are Obama canvassers, but one a week, I realize.
After Tuesday, its safe to be a Hoosier again.
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watch your mailbox
Berkley, you'll be receiving a nasty letter from Polynesian Hotties for Hillary any day now!
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laugh out loud funny
my hot toddy squirted out my nose, I laughed so hard . . .
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I'm so happy I don't get it.
It must be an inside joke. Inside some group that is still into this "men are afraid of strong woman" tripe.
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Next: Granola-Eating Berkeleyites for Obama
Not so much "men afraid of strong women" as it is "strong women (and female Clinton supporters) are all ugly and insufferable."
Which is pretty much as low and trite a dig as you can get in this 'historic candidacy' mudslinging.
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You should watch the movie "Iron Jawed Angels"
History is made by the uncouth and the brutal.
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"History is made by the uncouth and the brutal."
And most recently by the callously ambitious, and shamelessly disingenuous...
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"And most recently by the callously ambitious, and shamelessly disingenuous..."
And for the last seven years by the egotistically blinkered, and callously venal, and pathetically sycophantic...
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Aw, you called opinionated women fat and ugly, on the internet
Better trolls, please.
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OH NO HE DIDN'T
And I thought my dream life-vs-real life reality was bad......
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oh but the n#####s for obama are so pretty....
Oh those blackies for Obama are so damn pretty though....hey that's a funny joke too...can we see that one next? I'm waiting...or is that too scandalous?...only sexist jokes allowed? Welcome to the 2008 Democratic Primary Election and the good 'ole USA.
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Golda Meir, not
Are American men who aren’t going to vote for Hillary Clinton really afraid of strong women or that woman? With that hard-bitten stare, those maniacal eyes, Hillary’s always come across as a scary woman, a present day Lady Macbeth. That’s why Bill physically patronizes just about any woman beside his wife, bonus points if they’re beautiful island ladies of whatever hue, that perhaps don’t have as firm a grip on policy as his wife, but firm grips on things more important to Bill, nevertheless. Bill must be up there in the Wilt Chamberlain and Gene Simmons hall of fame when it comes to the number of ladies he’s been with beside his wife. If Hillary were rather a Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, or Angela Merkel her Democratic nomination would have been a slam dunk by Super Tuesday. It wasn't to be though, Denver could prove to be a barn burner along the lines of Chicago in '68.
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Doesn't anyone get it?
First of all, this strip is meant to be a humorous commentary on Opus' "anxiety closet," not a statement of fact.
Still, underlying the Democratic side of this election there's enough anxiety to go around. I've heard stories from men who served in Vietnam where the brass in some areas had been told "hands off" the black guys for fear the military would be seen as racist. Of course the black guys took advantage (as it's human nature to do when you know you can get away with anything). But the white guys who served in those places under those circumstances came away with the impression that the black guys had successfully demanded all that extra latitude that the white guys couldn't get and are, hence, anxious that Obama will turn the whole country in that direction - where black guys can get away with anything and get all the help they could ever want from the government, even if they're not working, while white guys still have to follow the rules.
When I was studying at a religiously-oriented graduate school a few years back a "men's spirituality" class about which several of our (majority) women classmates commented that they didn't see why there should be such a class since men didn't have spirituality, led to the creation of a mens' support group. Some of our female classmates went marching into the dean's office and tried to have the men's support group banned from the campus. Of course some of them had been mistreated by men in the past, but they were so blinded by those difficult experiences they couldn't see a gathering of men as anything but a threat, even though the men involved were the kindest, gentlest group of men you could possibly imagine and were only seeking ways to become even moreso.
I have no doubt these same women and their friends are all solid supporters of Ms. Clinton. Those of us who know women like that are anxious that, Ms. Clinton will be under tremendous pressure to adopt the perspective of such women, her most avid supporters, and will damage the lives of all our people of both genders and our nation by substituting that strident perspective which angrily casts aside anything that can be identified as male for what's regarded as the "womyn's" perspective rather than considering all perspectives in making choices and designing programs.
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Wow...Were's Joan Walsh when you actually need her?
Breathed has used the anxiety closet joke for decades now - and the few times the character's anxieties *don't* reflect his own opinion, he spells it out. The man is not subtle.
I find it interesting Walsh is silent on this. Perhaps Salon has this policy of not commenting on its own, but man.
I know Breathed enjoys being "provocative" at times, but its fascinating how frequently that provocation involves dumping on the less powerful, especially women. It's sort of the frat boy version of not being PC.
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Personally, I can't wait
If Hillary's in office, the radical feminists will be in charge?
How about when Obama's in office? Will the Black Panthers and Louis Farrakhan be in charge?
Or, people could simply vote for the rich white guy. We know exactly what we'll be getting then -- endless war, a wrecked economy, and the worst elements of strident Christianity in charge.
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Can't people take a joke?
I think we have all forgotten how to laugh. This primary has robbed us of our sense of humor.
Everyone, please listen to the Stephanie Miller radio show and learn how to laugh at ourselves again.