(Jeff Danziger’s website)
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…. which Google Translate tells me means “Money is spoken here.”
There are many excellent political cartoonists, but in my opinion Jeff Danziger is the single best political cartoonist of our day.
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…. which Google Translate tells me means “Money is spoken here.”
There are many excellent political cartoonists, but in my opinion Jeff Danziger is the single best political cartoonist of our day.
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Howard Beale IV
Stan Freberg, RIP
Yatsuno
Rahm won. Shit.
Howard Beale IV
@Yatsuno: Arrgh.
Neoliberalism lives another day.
Baud
@Howard Beale IV:
Another passing today.
JPL
@Yatsuno: Change won’t happen unless you can convince people to vote.
Howard Beale IV
@Baud: I saw that.
But Freberg did some insanely bizarre and successful advertising-and on top of that he tweaked those in power (“Little Blue Riding Hood“) and was a routine staple on Dr. Dememto.
Baud
@Howard Beale IV:
Cool. Thanks for the link.
Mike in NC
Always liked Pat Oliphant, but he’s getting up there in years.
wasabi gasp
@Howard Beale IV:
Giblet Gravy & Sliced Turkey
gogol's wife
@Howard Beale IV:
Sorry about that. He was funny. I used to listen to his albums over and over.
Howard Beale IV
@wasabi gasp: That was pretty good.
Of course, nothing beats St. George and the Dragonet.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Howard Beale IV: I used to listen to Dr. Demento in college, turns out he’s a fellow alum.
This was always one of my favorites from listening to Dr. D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
gogol's wife
@wasabi gasp:
That’s hilarious! I never saw it before.
Howard Beale IV
@gogol’s wife: Freberg also poked fun during the payola scandal.
gogol's wife
@Howard Beale IV:
You have cheered me up so much! I was afraid to listen to these things, for fear they wouldn’t be as funny as I remembered, but they’re funnier!
RIP, Stan.
Howard Beale IV
@gogol’s wife: Thanks. Freberg as always a comedic autodidact.
Jim Kakalios
Two words: Tom Toles.
Drops mic.
lamh36
Hate to be a debbie-downer, but I’m cynical enough to believe that certain media is just looking for a mugshot for Walter Scott (that is the media’s M.O. in these cases), but instead hopefully they show this pick of Walter Scott in his uniform when he was a member of the Coast Guard.
Walter Scott Coast Guard Vet
Oh and the original lawyer for the officer is no longer with him. IDK, maybe he got a better one, or the lawyer learned of the tape and decided he couldn’t do it.
Howard Beale IV
Here’s Freberg dissing on the Vietnam War.
Tommy
@Howard Beale IV: I as an ad guy know his work. Some of it is/was amazing. What I love is in the long intro of his Wikipedia entry of the things he did, it lists “puppeteer.” It reads:
How freaking cool is that.
Peale
@lamh36: the white cap is possibly a gang sign.
Howard Beale IV
@Tommy: No kidding. Like I said, he’s a demigod. The amazing thing is how little many people don’t recognize how incredibly influential he has been.
danielx
Oh boy, here we go again, except that there’s video from April 4th. And what the video shows is a white police officer shooting at an unarmed fleeing man eight times (with a pause for the eighth shot) and hitting him five times. In the back. Viewer discretion advised and all that…from NYT:
South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder in Black Man’s Death
This appears to be out-and-out fucking murder, followed by what to my uneducated eye looks like an attempt to plant evidence. And South Carolina authorities, amazingly enough, aren’t fooling around with grand juries.
Howard Beale IV
@danielx: It’s gotten big/nasty enough that BBC World Service is covering it.
srv
@Yatsuno: As predicted.
Please enjoy this music.
JPL
@danielx: It’s gotten big/nast enough that every network covered it.
lamh36
BTW,
This is how the fatal shooting of Walter Scott was reported before the release of the video:
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/28725562/coroner-identifies-man-shot-killed-by-north-charleston-police-officer
Sound familiar!!!! It’s as if police officers are trained to write a script…hmmmm. So who were these witnesses? No video, we rely on witnesses…
As the victim’s family and lawyers said, if not for this video, would we know the truth. I suspect we all know the answer.
trollhattan
@Howard Beale IV:
An absolute genius, in his own way the equal to Mike Nichols, or at least they steered our society in a similar fashion during their era.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@danielx:
Here’s one tiny beef with the NY Times story: if someone has been shot, you don’t perform CPR on them. The only thing chest compressions will do for someone who’s been shot is kill them faster via blood loss.
(ETA: Rescue breathing, possibly, but not chest compressions FFS. I know this is First Aid 101 because I just took the class.)
Other than that, yeah, it looks as though a man was executed for the capital crime of being behind on his child support. Now his kids don’t have a father at all.
Tommy
Since this is an open thread ….
Taking “baby steps” to automate my house. Started with a few Bluetooth light bulbs and outlets. Figured better to do it this way then go “all in” with climate control and locks (I can’t see myself ever doing that BTW). I have to admit it isn’t nearly as cool as I thought it would be. In fact kind of a waste of money at this point.
As I said in the previous post I am a tech nerd so when I see a problem I tend to look to tech to solve it. I did that here. In hindsight I think I didn’t have a problem so much of a non-percieved problem (wanted my utility bills to be lower) looked to tech to solve. Ended up spending more money than needed.
I should just be more anal about turning off all my electronics (already anal about lights).
BTW: My $85 Ilumi light blub is neat. But more of a parlor trick than something functional. A dimmer will do the same (which I already have with the halogen lights in the room I use it in).
JPL
@lamh36: this is my thought.. someone will say the family just wants money.
I know at least one family who sued a bar for serving their daughter one to many drinks and allowing her to drive and kill another passenger besides herself. That particular family just wanted something to help with their pain.
That particular family would not be questioned because they are white.
MomSense
@lamh36:
What a nice photo of him. I am so sorry for his family and friends. It is terrible enough to deal with the death of a child but to also have to face the way he was murdered.
Steeplejack
@Howard Beale IV:
Radio vs. TV.
When I was in high school (overseas), some late-night guy on AFRTS was always playing little snippets of Freberg stuff, mostly from Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America.
I particularly liked the Christopher Columbus story.
“Rumble, rumble, rumble, mutiny, mutiny, mutiny!”
“Stop that rumbling down there!”
srv
@Tommy:
We’re moving from First World Problems to 1% Problems.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: Bluetooth lights? What are you using? BTW, thermostats and locks aren’t that hard.
ETA: OIC, just saw the link to Ilumi lights. Wow, pricey.
ETA2: I use the $15 GE Link bulbs.
JPL
@srv: OMG.. second time today that I agreed with you.
mdblanche
Usted se olvidó el «¡».
Gin & Tonic
Here is the final two minutes of broadcast of ATR, the Crimean Tatar TV channel, which was shut down today by the Russian occupiers. It is in Russian, but subtitled in English. It is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and eminently (IMO) worth two minutes of your time. “We survived Stalin. We will survive this.”
satby
I have an early day tomorrow, so gotta go to sleep, but if anyone “sees” Ruckus, tell him he has email waiting from me on Etsy. I can’t answer his request without a bit more info, and a place to send it :)
Have a good night all you night owls!
satby
@srv: seriously. WTF?
Tommy
@srv: I am not the 1% but you are correct :). My dad is part of the 1%. He was over for Easter and I was like look dad, I can make my light bulb blue, orange, pick anything on the color spectrum. Here I will dim it with my phone.
He is too polite to slam me to my face, but I could tell by his gaze he was mocking me in his mind. Thinking his son is a fucking idiot. Where did I go wrong raising him?
As I said it is a parlor toy …. not so functional.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne (tablet): he was stopped for having “a” broken tail lamp, but…
Tommy
@satby: Yeah I know. I also got it for 35% off. Not sure you can buy it today for under $100. It was supposed to do all these things, but the app doesn’t work as advertised. I am anal about buying shitty products. I research stuff non-stop. That was the worse purchase of mine of the last decade.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: My home automation(lights, locks, thermostat, and smoke/CO2 alarm) works pretty well and actually saves me money(power & gas).
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Will have to look into those.
jl
@danielx:
‘ And South Carolina authorities, amazingly enough, aren’t fooling around with grand juries. ‘
For some reason, South Carolina has decided to try to instill some discipline into its police force. I remember a story about SC cracking down on cases of egregious police violence and lawlessness: dismissals, prosecutions, etc. Read it at TPM or maybe a story posted here. Let’s hope SC shows the way to other states in that respect.
Howard Beale IV
@satby: Your Shampoo bars are to die for, BTW. I won’t buy separate shampoos anymore.
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: The home automation doesn’t save water, I do have a water saving shower head(has a shutoff valve on the shower head part).
ETA: I’d love a water saving toilet, but I’m a renter. That’s the landlord’s problem, he pays for water.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Of course we have talked about this and I have bookmarked many of your links. A number of years ago I got anal about never having a light on in a room I was not in, even for a few minutes. I often left them on. Parents over last weekend and they left lights on. I walked around turning them all off.
I think that is my better course of action.
I might go with the thermostat. I live in what is called a split level house. One floor about ground. The other, fully finished, it isn’t a basement, but half below ground. I can regulate temp in my house.
satby
@Howard Beale IV: aww, thanks! Glad to hear that! I just like not having plastic bottles to get rid of, and the end of my Rosanne Rosannadana-like frizz.
OK, really going now. G’nite all
Howard Beale IV
An extended interview with Stan Freberg on Aussie TV.
NotMax
@Jim Kakalios
Also too, David Horsey.
@Steeplejack
Another goodie (among literally hundreds) – the Zagnut ad.
Howard Beale IV
@satby: Seriously, you ought to focus on the shampoo end. The kicker will be figuring out how to do the conditioner side so hair gets the volume and fluffiness.
(As a male, the conditioner I’ve always questioned, especially since my hair is as fine as my Persian cat.)
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: Oh water. In my bath off my bedroom it is a large stand-up only shower. Upstairs a bathtub with a shower. I changed the shower head to “low flow.” I like long, long hot showers. When I had one the water would often raise to my ankles. Put in a better shower head and there is no back-up in water. It is kind of stunning to me the shower “experience” is the same but assume far, far less water.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: The Honeywell’s are nice, more $’s gets you a nicer interface and more bells/whistles. The Nest is a “learning thermostat”, it’s supposed to learn your patterns and adapt. The cheapest Honeywell WiFi is around $100 the Nest and the top of the line Honeywells are about $250. I’ve got a Radio Thermostat, that’s the brand name(was also sold as Filtrate).
ETA: With two floors, you might be best served with 2 thermostats, not sure what you have now.
TriassicSands
OT —
There’s a remarkable video at the NYTimes website of a white Charleston, SC police officer (aka, the murderer) shooting and killing an African American man as he runs away from the police officer. The officer claims he feared for his life. They are charging the officer with murder, so all we need now is an all white jury to acquit the police officer.
In a curious detail, the police officer retrieves something from several meters away from the body and drops it very near the body. The assumption is this is the officer’s taser, which he claimed the dead man had taken from him. I guess to strengthen his story, the officer must have felt the taser actually needed to be near the man he was claiming threatened his life.
In one more case of proportionate justice, the man was stopped for a broken tail light. There was absolutely no need to shoot this man, since he was running away and his identity was known to the police. And just out of curiosity, if someone is running away from you, but you still feel you need to shoot the person, what would be wrong with aiming for the legs? The officer discharged his gun eight times — surely he’s a good enough shot to hit the guy’s legs at least once. That would slow him down and make his capture inevitable. (The fleeing man doesn’t look like a sprinter.) On the other hand, the video reveals no reason at all for the cop to use his gun.
NotMax
@Tommy
Now re-imagine the voting app you suggested below.
Sibelius
Didn’t realize Stan Freberg did the Three Little Bops. Favorite little Looney Tunes.
Tried to link, didn’t work. Look it up on http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82250549/
Don’t know how linkies work here.
catclub
I bet you could also translate that as: ” Here, money talks.”
Cervantes
@TriassicSands:
Some things can’t be captured by a camera.
liberal
@Gin & Tonic: our resident neocon is yammering on again about something…
TriassicSands
@Cervantes:
Have you watched the video? Prosecutors have and they charged the officer with murder, so whatever you think the camera might have missed doesn’t seem to have convinced the prosecutors there was any reason for the officer to shoot the man.
Gin & Tonic
@liberal: It’s a two-minute video. Watch it and make up your own mind.
tbone
Mike lukovitch
Eric S.
@Tommy: my brother and his wife turn on lights, move to the next room, turn on more light, rinse and repeat. Drives me nuts.
Cervantes
@TriassicSands:
You wrote:
I responded:
Callousness, for example.
Corner Stone
@TriassicSands:
It does appear there was absolutely no reason to fire your weapon at this fleeing individual.
But for the love of everything else. Please stop suggesting someone intent on firing their weapon at a fleeing individual is capable of hitting a chicken wing on the fly.
They aren’t going to. They teach four round bursts, center mass, and the reality is that human beings caught in the adrenaline thrall can’t be coached out of it.
Police departments have cut way back on live fire training, much less tactical training.
danielx
@Corner Stone:
True, not all of them are capable of hitting a chicken wing, and the idea of shooting someone in the leg to stop them is not plausible. All the training, as you note, is to shoot for center of mass for an excellent reason – because that’s the biggest target. If the objective is to stop someone from doing something horrible right this instant, which presumably is the only valid reason to use a gun on another human, that’s the easiest way. On the other hand, from what I’ve read the cop (Slager) hit the perpetrator/victim (Scott) with five out of eight shots, so (purely from a shooting standpoint) he didn’t do so bad either. What with the adrenalin pumping and all that, hitting five out of eight shots is probably pretty good for a guy who might hit the range once a month. Although the pause between the first seven shots and the eighth shot does look like a pause to get a better sight picture.
If he hadn’t shot an unarmed man in the back, I could almost feel sorry for this Slager fellow. He’s gone big time and gone viral, and stands all-but-convicted with his face known worldwide in just a few short hours. He’s not just up shit creek without a paddle, he’s head down in shit creek.
trollhattan
TBogg is on fuego today, almost literally. For one, he’s supplied Hola JEB’s campaign logo.
Arclite
@Jim Kakalios:
Yeah, Danziger is great, but I’d give the edge to Toles.
sm*t cl*de
You misspelled ‘Horla’.
yodecat
@Jim Kakalios: Toles is good. Danziger is an artist as well as good.