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Monday, February 25, 2008 12:00 AM

This Modern World

The road to the luminous cavern of power!

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 03:40 PM

Oh dear

I see WAY too much of myself in this cartoon. Thank goodness for a good mocking.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 07:59 AM

The scrawl looks like Hebrew?

Relevant? Absolutely.

Don't you see the teeny kippots the aliens are wearing?

Jeez.

Monday, February 25, 2008 05:10 PM

No! No? Nooooooo. Yet I,m so happy! Hallelooyah! Hallleloowow? Mammameai, Hellelooyooya!

The finale?

The woven!

Egyptian golden thread mythology includes the microbiological input theories of past collapsed Dynasties.

The Moon, Sun, old Horus, Ra, and Osiris did invite back the 'ole microbe.

Yep.

Bast, Bastet, Pasht, and Bubastis!

Moronic?

No! In Bath's honor!

The old sex orgies?

The noisy neocon affairs always ends in any era of crime's history.

The neocon debasement and debauchery is hush-hush, shush! Over.

All manner of GOP witchery, Diablerie -mischief, devilry, and use of sex orgies is finally over.

In the old days the custom was to have the Neo-Con-Incarnation of the Devil kiss a rodent?

Yep.

The posterior!

Oh. A yuck muddle.

The GOP sure species is deluded bad,

worst than the lowland stink polecats!

Oh. Let's not talk of the carrion tonight.

Oh. GOPS are tough, tenacious, and rot!

O, some good news? okay. Let's be nice.

The baubles? The bulb 'The Spring Snow Drop' has bloomed.

That means the lowland 'skunk-weed' blooms too. A skunk?

Oh. The natural black and white polecat will sneak up to a honey-bee-colony n a apiary.

The skunk will swish her tail inside the honeybee colony. A nice Polecat eats any bees clinging to the tale.

Nature?

She sure amazes.

Amazes amazement.

Yep. Oh. Luminous. macro/micro.

Monday, February 25, 2008 02:52 PM

@One guy

i reinvented the government for mr. gore and i consider mr. bush to be the lesser of the two evils. i had to threaten them with blowing the whistle on the whole operation just to get paid for my last months work.

i worked on the impeach reagan bush campaign too, our funds were seized by the feds so we were put out of business.

the government is a criminal operation and choosing between the candidates is like choosing who you want to rob you and beat you up. it really doesn't matter what gender, race or party.

go ahead and vote for war, but if you really think that obama or clinton is going to be a "peace" president then by all means, put your life where your mouth is and join the army.

how do you tell when a politician is lying?

their lips are moving.

nader is no politician.

Monday, February 25, 2008 01:55 PM

@ rupert c

Your posts on this board suggest that your thinking about this election is rather illogical and that you are unlikely to engage in any kind of real conversation, so this will be my only response to you.

Of course the Democrats could have run a better campaign, and of course they shouldn't have put Lieberman on the ticket; it was idiotic to do so. The fact remains that Al Gore would have been a much, much better president than Bush has been, and Lieberman, smarmy as he is, would have been less heinous than Cheney.

The fact also remains that neither their suboptimal campaigning nor the reprehensible actions by the Supreme Court mean that Nader played no role. For one thing, he (either disingenuously or uninsightfully) told people that Gore=Bush, which was clearly absurd. Second, he did take votes that otherwise would have gone overwhelmingly for Gore and thus put things beyond the reach of the Supremes.

Nader did, of course, have the right to run (and I have great respect for his work as a consumer advocate), but he also has the obligation to acknowledge the results of his run, which amount to precisely nothing other than Bush in the White House. And he has yet to show the fortitude to make this admission. He preaches that the Democrats must take responsibility for their actions. Well, he should listen to his own advice and do the same.

As for your vote, if you want to throw it away on the only "respectable" candidate (since disingenuousness and lack of insight are so respectable) who has utterly no chance of doing anything meaningful in this campaign aside from the slight possibility of 2000 redux, then go ahead and pat yourself on the back for doing nothing to prevent another four years of Republican "leadership". Then go door-to-door visiting some of the millions of folks whose lives will inevitably get worse as a result. And then go home and look in the mirror and ask yourself why you're patting yourself on the back.

Monday, February 25, 2008 01:33 PM

All this makes me so glad

I live in the far northern land mass, where a candidate who professes devout belief in the One True Grouping of Deities is a political liability, not a political necessity.

And we've already had a supreme leader without an insemination tube, albeit one elected only to her party's leadership (with the tentacle waving etc.) and not by popular vote. (I assure you, the voting vat system here makes no more sense; it just looks less complex. Zik zik zik!)

Monday, February 25, 2008 11:16 AM

Are these aliens related to the ones on the Simpsons?

They're both very funny.

I just love this sort of stuff. The drawings are hilarious even without words.

And if he can slip in a comment or two about the utter idiocy in making Iowa's tenticle waving sessions and New Hampshire's secretion gathering the first two make or break hurdles for candidates when they are so unlike the rest of the nation, more power to him.

I do love the "without an insemination tube" line. It's a hoot.

Though I would have changed the "waving tenticles" line to "waving their testicles" in the air. That does sound utterly alien.

Great strip Tom, very funny.

Oh and am I the only one who did NOT see this as a commentary of FOX? All the Conservative Mainstream Media are like that CNN and MSNBC the bigger networks Etc. All treat news similarly these days.

Monday, February 25, 2008 10:32 AM

@Lynx

There are honest war candidates and dishonest war candidates.

Go ahead and place your faith in the dishonest war candidates. All you have to do is enlist.

Even McCain thinks Obama is to much of a hawk for him. McCain probably realizes that bombing a country that has nuclear weapons is not something that is reasonable to do. When McCain is smarter than Obama, might you think for a moment that someone is conning you?

Democrats would never do that, would they?

Special thanks to the Clintons for helping Walmart and China destroy our manufacturing capability and wreck the ecomony just as much as the war has. Thanks to Bush for borrowing the money that we gave to China because we think the commies run things better than us and we really would like to be in debt to them and have our grandchildren in debt to them too.

Like the strip says, we are too stupid to think about anything other than sex or color.

LET'S GET ANOTHER WAR ON!!!!

Vote WAR! because in your heart, you know you really like for innocent cilivians get blown up, shot and dismembered - just don't put them on my tv.

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