..I can take!

have some tea and a cookie

I'm sorry, but I don't quite get this one. "Gosh darn you all to heck" is very funny in itself, but I don't see exactly what Tom's cartoon this week is supposed to mean. Is he pooh-poohing the loss (theft) of many folk's money in this horrendous, world-wide ponzi sceme, or what? If that's it, I can't laugh at it. We've experienced the biggest legal theft in human history perpetrated by the top financial elites against everyone else; such isn't a small thing.

...and I read this strip as black humour, as opposed to making light of peoples' losses. FWIW.

Our apocalyptic nightmares have come true, just not in the form we imagined. The monsters may not be real, but their claws sure are.

Yeah, I guess I can see that, but it doesn't come across that way to me. Your interpretation of Tom's cartoon is so ovbious that it would only require one panel to make that joke. To belabor that joke for many more panels seems to say something else, like maybe a down-playing of the present financial horror in comparison to how bad things could in fact be (unintentional on Tom's part, of course, I assume).

Naw, what it really means is that some people need to be hit over the head over and over again to accept the reality that our financial system is thoroughly screwed up and needs monunmental fixing. Of course, this is a lesson our nation already had to learn once, starting nearly 80 years ago now. But people got excessively greedy again and let the supposed financial wizards run amok.

Just for the most recent big news example, AIG is claiming it has to pay the wizards millions and millions in bonuses otherwise they'd go elsewhere. Well, considering the mess they've made, why would any other sane firm hire them even at minimum wage? Oh, I forgot, they're geniuses -- at getting other people to give them money they don't deserve.

a bad Chuck Heston movie?

Well the damned dirty apes (or zombies) can pry the shotgun from my cold dead hands!

as far as I know, most credit unions are fine. It helps when the people own and control the institutions that handle their money.

By the way, an excellent strip this week. The things that scare us most are not necessarily the ones we should be directing our fearful attention at.

"We've experienced the biggest legal theft in human history perpetrated by the top financial elites against everyone else; such isn't a small thing."

It's bad, I agree. Most of my retirement is in a 401k... Nuff said. However, read up on why John Dillinger, Bonny and Clyde, Machine gun Kelly, etc. were actually considered heroes by a lot of people. One common phrase associated with these people was "at least they got something out of the bank". The reason for this was the sheer number of people in the depression that lost everything that they had put in banks, as the banks folded. There was a lot of hatred for bankers in those days. It was much worse than it is now. Thus, we really have not faced the biggest theft, and it is far more likely that our mutual funds will recover than it was for a dead bank in the 30s to reopen.

On top of this, for Obama to say that we are in the worst economy since the depression is just a bunch of crap. It is an easily dispensed with lie to promote fear and pass his big money bills. From 1979 to 1982, there were three years of double digit inflation, and in the fourth quarter, unemployment peaked at over 10%.

Obama. The politics of fear over hope... He's gonna change things alright. Not. More of the same 'ol BS.

See http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-carterreagan.htm

...change we can believe in.

I think is the idea.

Not that any one sentence can paraphrase a good multi-panel cartoon (despite what someone above said). If it could, we wouldn't need the cartoon.

The hypnotized masses worry about giant embryonic stem cells flying in to eat scientists alive for having dared alter Mother Nature (since of course, in Biblical times no one ever modified crops by cross breeding, they just ate fruit off of God's trees while riding on dinosaurs.)

Reality turns out to have had a different movie in mind. Don't look now, but we have met Godzilla and he was wearing a pin striped suit.

It seems the only reason for you to subscribe to Salon is to bring up Republican talking points in response to articles posted here. You may influence as many as one in a thousand Salon readers, but I doubt it. I would be surprised if it was as many as one in a hundred thousand. And would all be Republicans anyway.

Seriously, why do you pay subscription fees to a website that you so consistently disagree with? Does it inflate your ego to come on this site and boldly disagree with the evil commie leftists? Do you spend all day flitting from site to left-leaning site, tirelessly spewing out your partisan hackery?

I am truly curious. I would never waste my time trying to pound sense into staunch Republican "conservatives." It seems to me to be a sign of some deep-seated need to be contrary.

Come on, fess up, why do you come here at all?

..It's made from Republicans?

It seems the only reason for you to subscribe to Salon is to bring up Republican talking points in response to articles posted here.

Seriously, why do you pay subscription fees to a website that you so consistently disagree with?

Don't forget that Salon publishes Camille Paglia. What right wing Republican extremist wouldn't agree with her articles? They love her.

It is sort of lampooning the way America's anti-intellectual movement demonised science when the real problems lay in the very field that they embraced quite forcefully - finance.

"President Obama's cautious stimulus plan... is the economy's only hope."

And the other part of that reality is that, faced with the obvious, Rush and his Republican party STILL hope for it to fail, even if it means their asses going down the drain, too.

Why do Republicans work so hard to see the destruction of America?