Letters to the Editor
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I'm first, I'm first
Woooo Hooooo!
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This isn't funny
Why is what is actually happening supposed to be funny?
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Hilarious...
Hilarious... yet bitterly true to the paranoid rightwing fantasies that I see printed almost daily in my local newspaper's letters to the editor. Ah, and those sensible centrists! Barely half an hour goes by without an earful from them on NPR, and not a day without their front page articles in the New York Times--you know, the "liberal" media...
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Hey phone-y you're LATE
Getting old?
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What dictates the size of online comics?
Just curious, I find the panels oh, about 10% smaller than I would like. What sets the size (can you make it larger? Link to an over 40yo eye size?)
Thanks!
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40 yo plus eyes
NNG, you can always do the following:
Right-click on the cartoon. Click on "Save picture as" ... which will save the picture to your "My Pictures" folder. Then either use your photo-editing software to enlarge the cartoon, or open a Word file, click "Insert" > "Picture" > "From File" to insert the cartoon into the Word file, then double-click on the picture to change its size.
Be aware, however, that while you can enlarge the size, you can't adjust the clarity, so the larger you make it, the fuzzier it will appear.
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IE7
...will zoom the comic. And it does it in a way that is less pixelated than enlarging it in a photo editor.
I believe Firefox does the same thing, however I'm not absolutely certain about that.
In any case, in this day of broadband there is no reason why comics should not be larger. It would serve the comics and the readers better.
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Monday morning chuckles
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.
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Ho Ho Ho
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.
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I don't get it
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...
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Republikan talking point
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
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Ya know
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.
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neimon
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.
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Gotta be careful
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....
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This Modern World needs better trolls!
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.