wednsday matinee

quote for the day

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."

Robert F. Kennedy

wtf

Seriously, what the fuck?

Okay, fine, do it. I didnt plan on voting in November anyway, maybe now I'll vote for a teapartier instead. Seriously, everybody out there who can vote in a teapartier (or a similarly whacked-out member of the GOP) into national office*, do so, please. I want to see the government shut down by these lunatics. Let them slash taxes until they're almost gone. Why disolve the nation slowly with spineless enabling like the Democrats are currently doing, when we could instead just slam the lever into reverse, ripping the whole damned transmission right out of the Vehicle of the State. Some people seem to think that government is unnecessary, perhaps it's time to show everyone just how necessary it is.



* Dont let them into local government. The nation can survive a few years without form, your local infrastructure may not.

blogger trouble

Am I the only one who's been having trouble with Blogger lately? Is this a pre-taste of what things will be like under the new Google/Verizon agreement.

visual difficulty

I've been reading manga online the last few days, and I find I'm having trouble reading regular comics now, as I keep trying to read them backwards.

Most perturbing.

quote for the day

"By the way, as far as General Petraeus saying that Pastor Yosemite Sam shouldn't exercise his right to free speech because it might endanger our troops in Afghanistan, oh, sweet General, what endangers our troops in Afghanistan is having troops in Afghanistan."

The Rude Pundit says what I wish I'd said. Yeah, there's more.

Today is the anniversary of an act of appalling dickishness. Committing an act of lesser dickishness does not make the past any less painful, and it assures a continuation of that pain in the future.

linkage

- What do you get when you cross a windfarm and a blimp? No, it's not a joke.

- So you thought the Cold War had a lot of spies?

- "Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it."

- Next time you get into a climate change arguement, ask this question: are you a sceptic or a denialist?

- This is why Smokie and the Bandit isnt real.

- Why do these kind of things not get said in American newspapers?

- Spoonfighter has an answer to the "Ground-Zero" "mosque" problem. Because.

- I've been wanting to go back to school for almost two decades now, but perhaps it's a good thing I didnt. And, yeah, my student loans are paid off. (via)

- sigh.

- new poll! (via)

- Terry Pratchett talks about his latest book. Terry Pratchett, by the way, is a god, and if you dont read him you are losing out. Badly.

- Prophecy? (Note date) (via)

quote for the day

via

thought for the day

Odds are, when someone says "it's the only thing They understand", the truth is that it is probably the only thing the speaker understands.

Dave's Comix list

So, yeah, I've largely given up reading obsessing about politics and such. Mostly these days I read comics, just like I used to back when I was blissfully unaware of the world.

True Daily Comics:

Bizarro
Blip
Candorville (or here)
Frazz
La Cucaracha

Daily Comics:

Banished!
Bobwhite
Dumbing of Age
Girls With Slingshots
Little Dee
Nerf This
Misfile
Savage Chickens
Quantum Vibe
Questionable Content
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Shortpacked
Supermassive Black Hole A*
Too Much Information
Wapsi Square

Several-Times-a-Week Comics:

Accursed Dragon (m-th)
The Adventures of Superhero Girl (t f)
Alex's Guide To A Well-lived Life (m w f)
All New Issues (t th)
Alone In A Crowd (t f)
Bashert (m w f)
Candi (mttf)
Darwin Carmichael Is Going To Hell (tues and thurs)
Does Not Play Well With Others
Dr McNinja
El Goonish Shive (m w f)
Evil Diva (t th)
The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon (m f)
Girl Genius (m w f)
Looking For Group (m th)
The Lounge (m w f)
Out At Home (w f sn)
Penny and Aggie (m w f)
Penny Arcade (m w f)
Pilli Adventure
PVP
Sam And Fuzzy (m w f)
Sandra And Woo (m th)
Scary-Go-Round (m-th)
Scenes From A Multiverse
Selkie (m th)
Something Positive
Treading Ground (m w f)
Twilight Lady (sun-tue-thur)
xkcd (m w f)


Fairly Regular Comics, but not real frequent:

Artifact (tue fri)
Bedhead (w)
Brightest (m)
Co-ed (on hiatus for summer?)
College Roommates From Hell
Curvy (saturdays, nsfw)
Endstone (m th)
Fey Winds (w)
Gastrophobia
GrrlPower (m)
Johnny Wander
Merceneiress
Miamaska (th)
Oglaf (sun, NSFW)
Optipess
Overcompensating
Rusty and Co. (w)
So Damn Bright (m)
Spacetrawler (t s)
Tom the Dancing Bug (weekly)
What's Shakin' (m)
Wondermark
Zap (tues)

Whenever Comics:

Amya (w, maybe sat)
Artiste Gullible
Bucko
Dawn of Time
Dicebox
Dresden Codak
Doublefine
Flat Philosophy
Hark, A Vagrant! (on hiatus until 5/22)
Head Trip
Ice
Kinokofry
Kukubury (on hiatus until... who knows?)
Lackadaisy
Nobody Scores
Octopus Pie
Scandinavia And The World
Scout Crossing
Toilet Genie
Trying Human
3eanuts
The Wotch (on hiatus)
Yep