the animatronic version of W that's been appearing at press conferences lately is getting rusty and repetitive.

The aerodynamics thing is one of my favorite "just a theory jokes." And I thought I was being clever. Turns out every nationally known syndicated cartoonist can come up with it.

Personally, I prefer Germ Theory. This theory is especially good since there are long-standing competitive theories that could work just as well. Some say that ill-humours make you sick, others say that that you are demon possessed and only the power of God can save you. The idea that there are tiny creatures inside you that make you ill is just preposterous. God would never allow that!

In my less charitable moments, I think anyone getting a flu shot should have to sign a statement saying that the accept the theory of evolution. After all, why would you need a flu shot if there were no evolution going on there? Huh smart guys?

That would weed out some of the dumb at least. And it's not just that they are ignorant. It is WILLFUL stupidity.

And another thing. Why do so many of these "Christians" believe in social Darwinism and not scientific Darwinism?

(Stretches) Nothing like a little Rant in Salon to get the morning started!

BTW. I'm a Practicing Christian. I practice being Christian, with varying levels of success.

And the rendition of Russert, even recognizable from behind..

The grin on the ubiquitous right wing hack, William Crystle, is priceless.

The giraffe and clown in the first frame are also amusing touches.

Personally, I'd like to see more such satire on the Democrats, though.

some strips on the amazingly effective Pelosi/Murtha team. Four weeks and counting, Salon. Not a single article on the amazingly effective democrats.

Poco

The first thing you do when you move into a house that has been poorly kept up is fix the rotting wood, haul out the accumulated trash, and drive out the vermin in the attic. That's what the democrats have been doing for the last 6 months...and will probably need to be doing for the next year. Then they can paint the place.

PS: And just what did the republican congress do in the last 6 years? I mean besides passing the usual pork. I don't even see the anti-gay marriage amendment and repeal of Roe v. Wade that is their reason for being there anyways.

Hehehehehehehehehehehe.

The only downside is that you're completely right, and the sphincter conservatives are unable to see themselves as anyone in the cartoon.

Joe Biden immediately leaped up a notch or two with his response to the leering idiot who wondered about protecting his "babies", ie assault rifles. Joe fired back, "he needs help". Like the people in this cartoon, too many on the right just don't get it and don't want to disturb their own double standards.

Sad, really. But the cartoon is funny.

Who writes the stuff that goes on the telepromter? Who types in the stuff on the Chyron crawl? CNN is "the most trusted name in news." Yet from 6 a.m. until the World News comes on, CNN is populated by creatures from Tom Tomorrow including that insufferably dimwitted Uncle Tom black guy and some helmet-head woman with the worst red hair dye job seen east of the Mississippi. They banter back and forth chirping happy inanities, incredulous guffaws at the simplest things and clucking over the latest Lohan sighting. Clearly, neither one of these bobbleheads could write a line of news copy, so who is the actual news feeder to the news readers?

But there are groups out there that have their own theories of disease, one physical the other mental, that we couldn't make up if we tried. And the representatives of one of them will never need a note to get a flu shot as they'd never get one.

Hint: They both have some form of the word "science" in their name.

As those dimwits who believe all terrorism is because of poverty and not enough hugs.

And I take it you are going to skip your flu shot, since they are only for the dimwits who believe in Evolution? I'm sure this is over your head, but the legitimate posters will get it.

Thank you, bold anonymous commenter!

For me, this cartoon raises the question of which is worse among the neo-con crazies: sincerely held beliefs or insincerely held beliefs?

Or have they both been equally disastrous for the United States?

Of course I believe in evolution. What other explanation could there be for beings who type with their tails like you?

I thought our old friend The Onion hit it right on the head when they proposed that "Gravity" was just a theory and that the phenomenon (sp?) could be explained by "Intelligent Falling". Although I think that should be changed to "Intelligent Dropping", just so it has the initials "ID", just like a similar denial of a preponderance of facts.

Almost as funny As those dimwits who believe all terrorism is because of poverty and not enough hugs.--Anonymous

Yeah, because there are a lot of people saying that. Strawmen are such easy targets; aren't they?

Speaking of dim witted punditry decorating CNN please visit YouTube to ferret out the Mika from MSNBC revolting over the Paris Hilton story or the latest talking head from CNN crying foul over a Lohan tale. Is this legitimate journalistic outrage or the newest craze to garner ratings in the cable ratings? I would have to say that the talking heads in the MSM carry little love for journalistic integrity and instead are having trouble sleeping at night. All those nagging muckraker ghost cries.

Mika Tale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0

Cafferty File (This is not great quality but you get the idea)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QEu52SMPY&NR=1

To Anonymous:

You're right. Because we all know terrorism isn't caused by poverty, globalization, or any worldly phenomena. If it were, we'd have to actually accept some responsibility for eliminating these factors, and we can't have that. Better to believe, as all of us right-thinking people know, that it's simply caused by Evil (TM) and that to attempt to explain it any further is the same as 'justifying' it.