As someone who likes genre-based artforms (comics, noir/mystery, some fantasy and sci-fi) and feels guilty about it -- indeed, as someone who is writing a crappy novel which, if published, will certainly end up in the genre fiction ghetto -- I have always been, to put it politely, keenly sensitive to slights against those genres. (To put it ( Read more... )

Speaking of the beetle-browed morons who added to my beloved Sox' shitty reputation, I was listening to sports talk radio this morning in hopes of hearing news of these regressive fuck-knuckles. And in between interviews with Laz Diaz and John Rooney, there was a commercial for a Christian dating service ( Read more... )

I urge anyone interested, from either side of the political spectrum, in this war to read this.This war was conceived, planned, sold, promoted and executed by vile ideologues from neo-conservative think tanks. And it's only the first, it's not the last. The article is a pretty good overview of what they plan to do if they hold on to the White ( Read more... )

I've posted this elsewhere, so I apologize for the duplication, but this is simply too great.

Poets for the War.

So you get a bunch of retarded links.

First off, how about some evidence that the country is being run by completely fucking morons? American intelligence officials consult with author of idiotic bestseller on gematria. Coming up next, the White House brings in a dowser to help find Osama bin-Laden.

A grim estimation of what war in Iraq might ( Read more... )

Paul Krugman has a piece in the Times today about how the Bush administration is gearing up to do to Mexico what we did to France.Of course, this absurd, bullying provocation is being orchestrated by the government (despite claims that it, like the moronic, juvenile France-bashing, is a simple expression of popular will). Of course, it's being ( Read more... )

And finally, to apologize for exposing you all to my bitching and carping, I bring you the good news that Det. Yemana from “Barney Miller” has been elected premier of China.

Lore has a nice little entry about the continual marginalization of comics and where it comes from, through the framework of blogging ( Read more... )

Today will be given over entirely to my tedious, tendentious political bitching. Conservatively-oriented readers, people with a low boredom threshhold, or simply those ill-disposed towards one-sided opinion-peddling would be advised to skip today's entries, or perhaps to read better-written, more informed political blogging.