__ I wish the Tank McNamara strips were better archived on-line (www.gocomics.com only goes back to 1998) because over the years Millar & Hinds have done better real-world commentary than at least 67% of our avowedly “political” cartoonists.
Archives for November 2010
Pure self-indulgent wankery
Commenter MikeBoyScout writes: I’m pretty sure all the Very Serious People in 1860 knew we’d always need and have slaves, and that racism was based upon fact. I just went to an exhibition about Mark Twain yesterday and was struck by how much he sounded like a shrill modern leftie. He accepted evolution as established …
The way it was
I’m going to be following this (via): One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.
He could throw that speedball by ya
I’ve always thought that Chris Matthews’ gushing about W’s ability to throw a baseball was probably one of the low points in our nation’s history: There are some things you can’t fake. Either you can throw a strike from sixty feet or you can’t. Either you can rise to the occasion on the mound at …
Open Thread
Rather than continue to be emo and/or obnoxious, I’m just checking out for a few days. WVU lost. Steelers lost. Tomorrow will be a bloodbath. Thank goodness I will be traveling tomorrow and miss all the coverage. So, this is John Cole checking out at least until tomorrow night, at which point I hope to …
Restoring sanity one rally at a time
A few thoughts on the Rally. First, here’s an image of the rally compared to Beck’s rally earlier this year via airphotoslive.com: I know the point of the rally was not to compare or compete or whatever, but still… I don’t know if this points to something fundamentally flawed in the analysis of the enthusiasm …
An Update on the Ohio Governor’s Race
A week ago, Quinnipiac had the Ohio Governor’s race at 49% to 43% Kasich, and I don’t think anything of note has happened since then, so take this information as reliable, or don’t. The Ohio Governor’s race is a dead heat with Republican John Kasich getting 47 percent of likely voters to 46 percent for …