The above header is how I feel after having had my praises sung in the video of a panel that took place at the just completed Heroes-Con. The boost to my ego comes courtesy of writer Chris Sims of Comics Alliance, who has reached the level of Operating Blockhead VIII!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVXxUJzgIM[/youtube]
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Hello to all you new Debbie Downers who have only just discovered Clarissa from her sudden fame courtesy of Digg and Reddit and the nice person who posted Stuffed Friend without my permission.
There is another Clarissa story for you to enjoy here, and plenty more in The Great Taste of Deep Fried and Deep Fried vol. 2 #1, both available in my store.
Clarissa seems to be inspiring her share of fans on Deviant Art, too! Lookit this and this. Wow… why do people have such a dark opinion of my cute little waif? I’ve always imagined her as having a lot of cross-over appeal to fans of cartoons like Doug and Hey Arnold!
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There was a terrorist attack in Pakistan on Thursday, in which gunmen killed or injured hundreds of worshippers at two different mosques.
The attack was blamed on the “Pakistan Taliban”, a name we are starting to hear all too frequently. I mean, I could have sworn we went into that area to wipe out the Taliban. Nine years later, there are two of them.
Interesting note: blaming this on the Taliban is just smoke and mirrors to disguise the real cause of the slaughter. The people killed were Ahmadis, a minority religious sect. And discrimination against them is actually written into the Pakistani Constitution.
Credit where credit is due.
The wave of left-wing reactionism to Rand Paul has nearly crested, but surfs still up! From Crooks and Liars, a little Glenn Beckery based on (of all things)Â a Tweet from a Neo Nazi:
“Neo-Nazis have just as much right as anyone else to contribute to campaigns… Clearly, the expectation is for their guy to do right by them when he gets there, and frankly, there’s no reason for them to doubt that, based on the evidence.”
SPARE. ME. I have not yet been blown away by Rand, but have you seen his competition? Kentucky Democrat Jack Conway is such an off-the-shelf politician that  he probably comes three to a blister pack! His face looks like it was made to wear pancake makeup, and his rhetoric is so trite he may as well have a draw string. “Brighter tomorrows” and “Now-is-the-time’s” roll off his tongue as though he were the hypnotized candidate in a scheme hatched by Lex Luthor.
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Back to Rand. Soft spoken, somewhat clumsy with the English language in the manner of his father Ron Paul, hair that looks like a pile of dog shit… and willing to tell the truth about his actual philosophies, at least so long as he can avoid a backlash from the right and the left, neither of whom actually welcome conversations about controversial subjects (though they doth protest otherwise).
The thing that liberals have yet to understand is, at the end of the day there are going to be Republicans in Congress no matter what, and Rand Paul is the kind we can deal with.
There are three types of conservatives vying for Tea Party momentum: one faction is the theocrat/tinfoil hat brigade belonging to Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. A second is the plutocrat wing of Gingrich and Romney, and the third and most imperiled is the libertarian wing. But if I had to name the Republican least likely to appear on the Sunday talk shows trying to repeal the Bill of Rights the next time some Pakistani parks a U-Haul full of horse manure and bottle rockets in Times Square, it would be Rand Paul.
Rand’s style of Libertarianism is largely unfamiliar to the public at large, but any attempt to play him as a racist or regressive are premature. He believes in smaller government, yes, and he has actually made a bold move by critiquing the Civil Rights Act. The only thing ballsier would be running a cartoon of Mohammed in his campaign literature. Is the Civil Rights Act as it is written the best law for our country? I’d be willing to bet it is. But then again, I have never been asked to consider the question before. Thanks Rand!
There’s lots of real life objections that can be thrown against Rand Paul that don’t require Code Pink to start attending his rallies, especially his Atlas Shrugged attitude towards business. His abortion stance is also foolhardy. But slandering him with charges of Nazisim? Are we really going to go down the Fox News road of playing the Hitler card every time an anti-status quo candidate rears his head?
I think Rand Paul is probably naive and Utopian, but he is also against the PATRIOT Act. Has Obama come out against that? Rand takes a jaded eye towards the defense budget and isn’t afraid to discuss the Military Industrial Complex in pejorative terms, either. Obama ramped up the Afghan War and the world’s goody two-shoes gave him a Nobel Peace Prize for it!
Time will tell whether Rand Paul is actually his own man and continues to speak his mind, or if the Republicans (aided and abetted by Rachel Maddow and others who can’t see the forest for the trees) prove to him that Americans on the left and right actually prefer a Party of No.
Just a little live-blogging from the Wild Pig show on my friend’s iPad. I take back every bad thing I ever said about this overhyped waste of money. It is the tits with a side of booyah.
Decent attendance yesterday, not so much today, but hey, it’s Sunday. Met the brains behind Alien Loves Predator, Box Brown of Bellen, David Willis from Shortpacked. I’m at his table now. Say “hi” David!
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SEE? That was the real David Willis! How cool is this consumerist waste of resources??
Anyway, I apparently can’t scroll up to correct a previous paragraph because I am using the screen keyboard to type, and the php doesn’t work correctly using this interface. Technology sucks when it stops rocking. Back to work for me!
