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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:00 AM

This Modern World

2008 year in review: Part 2, The end of an error.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 08:32 AM

There's so much one could say... shush is often the wisest, and best....

The last frame:`I smiled to notice the red hat was borrowed from Good Cary Tennis.

A maids friend ofTom Tomorrow, wow, maybe if a nation is Lucy. The rubber ducky?

The same-same, sane one. Ay sane one who serves Pokey cooked snoozer puppies?

Harpy Day.

The frame I like the best was:`"You'll never get away with this you--you (shriveled)

Scrotum! Ho Ho Ho. Buy a cute red hat. Steal a 'shrinks' here @ Salon from Cary T.?

I gotta buy a pitchfork gift.

Ay! Buy good garden tools.

Buy a Steel Tempered tool.

No tease. Honest. Oh, Sleet.

It is slippery ducks weather.

Bake the shoo fly pecan pie.

Yummy. Eat butter cookies.

O Hoe field Tom Tomorrow.

The folk You know-Love Ya.

Politico need T.T.'s O Gimme.

Tell them the truth. Ya Okay.

If You don't they stay FOOLS.

Fill up. Fuel up with Cookies.

A End of ERROR. Yikes. Gads.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 05:10 PM

Man,

Are you kiddin'?

This is AMERICA!

The war on ERROR

Or

WHATEVER

Is never

Overcome

Won

Or DONE...

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 05:00 PM

I fear ...

... that the "error" will continue for some time to come.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 03:50 PM

HO HO HO

....Dammit....(laughing and crying simultaneously)....

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 02:23 PM

@ Poco

Uhhh... There's a plug for his book right in the middle of the strip. Isn't that modern capitalism defined?

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:42 PM

Brilliant, TT!

"Atheists everywhere are given momentary pause."

Ann Coulter's madness, captured so perfectly with a few strokes of the pen... love it!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:01 AM

FredRated - Thank goodness!

It's good to know that at least one person here thinks TT is a capitalist.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 08:38 AM

Poco

I hate to bring bad news, but capitalism collapsed years ago.

Every time someone tries to revive it, an economic disaster results.

Sorry.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 07:57 AM

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild

What I thought was particularly ironic icing on the ironic cake of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild calling Obama elitist was that she had her spokesperson release that statement.

Wow. Just ... wow.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 07:36 AM

pocp

It's just you.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 07:27 AM

I hope "The Road" is a documentary

Nothing would make me happier than being able to say "I told you so" over the blasted ruin of the entire planet and the extinction of all life.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 06:54 AM

Is it just me

Or does it appear that Mr. Tomorrow would just love the "collapse of capitalism"? Be careful what you wish for comrade. Have some more vodka. It will clear your head.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 06:52 AM

@deering - re theory of relative time ...

I read something somewhere on the 'net that explained why, as you become older, the days seem shorter.

When you are five or six years old, any given year is a relatively significant percentage (20%, 16%) of your life.

When you are forty or fifty, a single year is less than 3% of your life.

So, as you become older, each year seems to go faster, because each year is a smaller part of your entire life.

That being said, the roller coaster that was 2008 seemed to stretch out forever and ever.

I can only hope the next election campaign cycle does not start before 2011, and that the entire planet is not a smoking ruin before then.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 02:58 AM

You are the sugar in my ipecac :-)

As we purge the poison of the past 8 years from our system and look forward to the pain of hangover & rehab, you keep us smiling while still remembering how we got here.

Happy Holidays - which ones? "....ALL of ..them" ;-)

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 02:45 AM

@vaporland...

It seems like it took two years to become a year, didn't it? :)

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 01:46 AM

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow

'The end of an error'. Splendifluous statement, Mr. Tomorrow.

I (being, for good or bad, of the left/liberal persuasion) liked it.

I got a kick out of this latest attempt at humour, Mr. Tomorrow, even if it only included much of the left's previous pablum regurgitated in your illustrated forum. I suppose I fall among the regular Salon readers in that respect. So what.

What I really want to post about is that my slow mind has just realized something about the title of your pieces and your pen name. You are satirizing the backwardness of our culture, aren't you? Why do you hate America? (I, personally, Tom, always hated that statement. We are the United States, one country of 3 in NAFTA, one of many in America, right?)

Tom (or whoever you are and whatever your real name is):

Keep on preaching to the converted, son. Wait and see where it gets us. But keep on.

Love and Merry Christmas, whomever you are

Monday, December 22, 2008 10:49 PM

LoL!

Brilliant as always. I bought the book as a Christmas present for someone BTW. Keep it up!

Monday, December 22, 2008 08:06 PM

How far we have fallen....

A chapter of the recent book The Logic of Life (by Tim Harford) discusses game theory and its applicability to the Cold War.

http://www.amazon.com/Logic-Life-Rational-Economics-Irrational/dp/1400066425/

Apparently John F. Kennedy had game theory giant (and later Nobel Prize winner) Thomas Schelling...

.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling

.

advise him on how to conduct foreign policy while avoiding blowing up the world.

In contrast, the Old Fart/Bimbo ticket considered "Joe the Plumber" (whose name is NOT Joe, who is not a [licensed] plumber, and who is going to do better under Obama's tax plan than Old Fart's) to be a top adviser.

Monday, December 22, 2008 07:39 PM

this was the longest year of my life

now i remember why....

Monday, December 22, 2008 07:32 PM

One of the funniest TMW yet

Joe the Plumber looks like Bat Boy! Ann Coulter unable to open her mouth; I'd like to think her eyes must be bulging out like that! And I distinctly remember thinking that there must be a god for that to happen. It's hard to pick a favorite of these, but it's interesting to think how much TT left out. He didn't even have to mention McCain's heroic and selfless mad dash to Washington to get us out of this mess in the course of a weekend.

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Consumerfest! (Take that! Bill O!)

Monday, December 22, 2008 07:13 PM

"Much to plumber's apparent dismay"

Priceless. Worth 1000 thoughtful editorials about the potential political impact of the plumber demographic.

Monday, December 22, 2008 07:09 PM

Christmas will be crushed

Before the next big

Christmas rush...

Monday, December 22, 2008 07:02 PM

"Rednecks or whoever"?

Doesn't sound like she respects them either. BTW: Is the "War" on Christmas still going on? I thought all the stores started saying Merry Christmas agian so they would quit whining.

Monday, December 22, 2008 06:10 PM

Thanks Tom

made me laugh You have a good (celebration of choice)

Monday, December 22, 2008 06:06 PM

Democratic Spinelessness

Joe Lieberman gets reelected to the Senate, thanks to strong support from Republicans. He is no longer officially a Democrat.

He is allowed to hold all his positions, as if he were still a Democrat.

Joe Lieberman officially endorsed the Republican candidate, campaigned for him, spoke at the Republican convention.

He is allowed to hold all his positions, as if he weren't an unabashed traitor to the Democratic Party.

The only way time the Democrats don't look cowardly, weak, and helpless is when they are compared to Republicans. All the high hopes surrounding Obama are already tumbling to the ground. (Rick Warren? You have got to be fucking kidding me!!! He hasn't even taken office yet, and he is already rolling over!)

Get ready to be crushingly disappointed, over and over and over again. These stupid cowardly losers are maybe going to slow the slide this country is on. But I doubt it.

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