With the new letters policy, Mr. Phoning-It-In and his Troll Allies will be known, if only to Salon. Or they'll quit postin' 'cause it ain't no fun no more neither.

Twenty-three letters, and not one bothered to welcome Ward Churchill to the TMW pantheon of lefty-moonbat talking heads. Though of course he didn't actually say anything...

I'm with you, Tom. Only problem is former Senator Simon is dead. Would former President Carter do?

I grew up in Central Illinois (it must be something in the water), and may move back there when the current crew is no longer in the White House (depends on who replaces them). Until then, I'm a political refugee, living in Spain (where gay marriage is already a fact, it is understood that capitalism must be regulated, and nobody pays any heed to the rantings of the religionists). - SL

forget the investigations! I want IMPEACHMENTS!!! I want George (the Wuss) Bush and (Dead Eye) Dick Cheney impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors; I want our civilian twerps in Iraq tried as war criminals; I want every member of the Armed Forces, the National Guard and the Reserves given a 2 month all expenses paid vacation, with their families, at Disney Land or Disney World. I want a diplomatic SWAT team consisting of Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, former Illinois congressman Paul Findley and George H.W. Bush set up and then sent to the Mideast to talk Israel, the Palestinians and their neighbors into settling matters peacefully. I want the National Rifle Association to admit to being a terrorist organization.

I disagree, I think the trolls here are hilarious. Take Sock Puppet, for example who shows his superior intelligence by not understanding a piece of broad satire. Comedy gold!

I love This Modern World, but I admit I am disappointed at the low level of troll it attracts. Surely there must be homebound right-wing Tom Tomorrow-obsessed lunatics out there who aren't 100% cretinous. I hope they can replace the complete cretin here now.

I laughed, but I do worry that Red State Con wackjobs will read a strip like this and think that it's some sort of "evidence" or "admission" or confirmation of their darkest, craziest paranoid fantasies about the rest of us.

Lots of Con nutjobs really do believe this stuff.

I think TT may need to post something like: "Warning: This is Satire!" in big red letters somewhere....

I think you've summarized TT very well. I find Doonesbury to be similar insofar as printing the most horrific atrocities on the comics page seems to be the only place in MSM we have the opportunity to see things revealed for what they are. I don't know Dan Perkins, but I'm guessing he isn't the least bit worried about being funny. He's just holding up a mirror and wondering when we'll recognize ourselves. "Funny" implies we laugh and move on to the next thing. I rarely find TT funny, but I often find it disturbing on many levels. Like Dilbert--I laugh until I realize my boss "is" the pointy-haired guy and I'm trapped in that hellhole.

This isn't always supposed to be funny. In fact, it rarely is. In fact, the truth hurts. In fact, when lampooning the corporate bias in meda starts to feel like an everyday thing, it's pretty much too late, because, jeebus on a cracker, this is exactly the goose-stepped, blaring speakered "truth" that the right wing and its enablers will use, and some people will write their $25 checks to the Republican party based on more lies.

Sometimes, like the jester in a certain of the Bard's plays, the truth can only be spoken by someone under the cover of clown makeup. That doesn't mean it's funny.

It isn't. The last 25 years have been absurd and ghastly as we've watched ourselves be convinced that people are things to be used and thrown away, and that to complain is either treason or communism or some kind of biased faggotry.

If this strip is boring you, maybe you should be bat-shit scareified that it does. How funny is that? Huh?

Not.

Harvey,

If it appears to you that the attorney scandal is nothing more than political circus, as the Rebublikan talking point would like you to believe, then indeed you have not been paying attention, and are being a good little minion.

If you decide you'd actually like to be educated on this subject, there are several great articles here on Salon that succinctly explain why these firings were extraordinary in their scope and motive.

-gsa

I usually follow TMW logic, but this one threw me for a loop. It sounds like TT is arguing with himself in this dispute. Probably I just haven't been following the US Attorney stories cause it looked like such a political circus, but it's hard to garnish any real outrage cause the US Attorneys are replaced anyway. The only thing that really strikes my satire bone is the fact that Gonzales lies to congress even when he doesn't have to, like a reflex. Now that's funny...

Go On Lunch > Think "Let's laugh at the obsessive compulsive, remind myself people have worse lives than me" > Click Salon > Click Comics > Click Comments > Laugh at the Obsessive > Laugh at him again when he tries to get attention a second time > Laugh at him a THIRD time as he becomes so desperate to follow his little rituals he has to resort to scatology to try and get attention > Nod happily that "Yup, there are some much worse of people and personalities out there!" then get on with real life.

This weeks toon has me grinning from ear to ear. “Let’s appoint Osama Bin Laden as special council”! The sad thing is how many ordinary Americans, those who listen to Rush, and NPR, and Fox, believe this satire is the way it really is. P.T. Barnum said there’s one born every minute, and the conservatives have taken advantage of this for the past 25 years. Now that their lies are crumbling under their own weight, and they are losing their power an influence the American public have become “idiots” according to Limbaugh. Journalists are deservidly one of the least respected professions in our country. Why should we respect those who just perpetuate lies, half truths and myths?

This weeks toon is an example of TT’s wonderful satire and how subtle humor is often far more cutting than the in your face obvious jokes many letter writers seem to expect.