Letters to the Editor
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Here's the problem with this cartoon:
In future centuries, when historians try to figure out 2008, they will look at this great Modern World cartoon, and they will say, "Ah-Hah! It's a cartoon... So it must be exaggerating how crazy everything was back in the early 21st century..."
They will not (how could they?) believe that this is exactly how things stand in 2008. And they will spend another couple centuries vainly trying to come up with a rational explanation.
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What they'll say in future centuries
Those early pre-cyborg creatures certainly were amusing sometimes. Their sluglike antics from the days before anything that could be called real human intelligence developed are almost fun to glork about in the media archives, that is if you can take how depressingly primitive and really quite barbaric they were.
It's amazing we ever evolved into what we are now, with these as our ancestors. Of course, the ReGlorklipublicans claim that we didn't evolve from such repulsive backward creatures at all, and on that one point I almost want to agree with them!
Hik hik hik.
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So does this mean that talk radio IS now endorsing McCain?
I KNEW IT!!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!! HA HA!!! WHAT DID I SAY? I SAID THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED HE WAS THEIR ONLY CHANCE TO STAY RELEVANT HE WOULD IMMEDIATLY BECOME ACCEPTABLE!!!! I SHOULD HAVE PUT MONEY ON IT!!!!
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Of course if they aren't endorsing him, then it means they may fall off into obscurity (well, more so then they already are). I honestly don't know since I wouldn't be caught dead listening to Rush. I'm hoping that they don't however and that Obama wins which means they'll have to spend the next four years at least trying to rebuild their own party in their image and then wonder why it won't work. Hopefully by then most of their geriatric audience will either be dying off or so torn that the party won't be able to put itself back together. Wonder what Captain Blowhard and Bombastic Lad will do then?
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What alien archeologists will say in the future.
"This example of the comic strip art form shows why the human race died out. Instead of offering some insight, some legitimate perspective on the nation's problems, this artist - whose name we approximately translate as 'Yonnie Yesterday' - resorted to petulant name-calling and personal insult. It's a perfect example of how humans could no longer relate to one another as intelligent life forms, but saw each other as enemies or deluded fools - even those people whose beliefs were close to their own.
"This was the year, you recall from your historical studies, that Clinton and Obama supporters went to war against one another, not over any substantial arguments of issues, but over their dedication to their particular candidate as a fetish symbol or celebrity. As a result, neither was elected. Yonnie Yesterday asserted that the years of trouble that followed this election occurred because the Democratic Party did not nominate him as...I believe the term is translated as 'Boss of the World.' Thus, a once promising race disintegrated into egotism, Libertarianism and ultimately self-destruction. Class dismissed."
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Recently Unearthed Wisdom from the Future
[translated by Salonista Suprema, PhD, University of Mars]
"It appears that political reality got so ridiculous by early 2008, that cartoonists were able to get laughs simply by mirroring political reality. Although this seems an alien concept, note that so-called "Human Nature" is in complete accord with preposterous/murderous conditions."
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Hey Tomreedtoon
You sound HILARIOUS ! Why don't you start a cartoon? It could feature "insight and legitimate perspective on the nation's problems." People would love to read it for a good chuckle.
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yeah tomreedtoon
who put the stick up YOUR butt?
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tomreedtoon
Ah, it simply wouldn't be a Salon arts article if it wasn't accompanied by an extended bout of huffing and puffing from tomreedtoon. You'll notice, of course, that he offers no evidence of the "petulant name-calling and personal insult" that he perceives in this piece. This is Mr. Toon's calling card: a combination of smugness and lack of substance for which he takes a certain Salon TV critic to task on a near-weekly basis, with a determination that routinely threatens to make the infatuation he clearly feels for her explicit. I'm surprised that he hasn't laid out an arbitrary set of rules that political cartoonists should be expected to follow. Maybe next week? (Fingers crossed!)
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I used to like Tom Tomorrow
Since when does wanting to secure our borders make you a right-winger? Especially when it was Ronald Reagan who signed an amnesty into law for illegal aliens in the 1980s?
Look, it is the corporatists running our country who love illegals, for the same reason they love NAFTA, GATT and the WTO - It's a way to flood the labor market with cheap labor, create a working class that's easy to exploit and break the back of the American workers?
Fellow liberal and environmental activist Edward Abbey opposed illegal immigration on those issues, as well as the fact that the US's environmental carrying capacity is nearing its peak. Abbey suggested that if we really want to help the Mexican people, don't let them into this country - instead greet them at the border with a rifle and a box of ammo and tell them to make some changes in their own country.
On a personal note regarding illegal immigration, I spent thousands of dollars helping my adopted son become an American citizen. Anyone who ever called me "anti-immigrant" to my face would be in for a fight and no amount of take-backs or apologizing would save him from a major ass-kicking.
Because of the trouble I went through and the many hoops I jumped through to bring him here, I see no reason why other people should be given citizenship as a gift for having broken our laws for so long.
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Ya there's a glitch in the machine
Progressives run the risk of self polarization for its own sake. If anyone to the right of Che proposes something it MUST be evil. Now criticizing illegal immigration is a bad thing.
Oh well, so much for bipartisanship.
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Hey, folks on about illegal immigration
That wasn't the point of the strip guys.
The point was that for all of the bluster from the right, they're going to get behind their front man whether he really "Stands" for what they "stand" for or not. Since Immigration is a little easier to put into a comic strip than say, the argument against campaign finance reform, and since McCain is basically a right wing nutjob in every other respect, guess what Tom's target was?
Lighten up a bit. The strip is meant to prove a different point. It's comedy.