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Archive for December, 2006

Winning Hearts and Minds, example 29,987

Blog: December 1st, 2006

Disclaimer: Spotted this on SmirkingChimp.com; I have no idea what the source of this video may be, but verified stories coming out of Iraq make this look tame by comparison, so odds are it’s legit. It seems more like a sure-fire method for creating an insurgent, rather than a way to instill a sense of [...]

Channeling one’s inner loser

Blog: December 2nd, 2006

Not a week goes by that I don’t check my inbox and see a variation of the following question: “Mr. Bell/Darrin/Moron, how do you get the characters in ‘Candorville’ to seem so three-dimensional? I want to work long hours for 1970’s wages as a cartoonist someday, but my characters seem so flat and lifeless.”Here’s how [...]

Politics is the art of the disgusting

Blog: December 13th, 2006

Democratic Senator Tim Johnson may have suffered a stroke today. Strokes are serious business. My mother suffered through one years ago and I’m not sure she ever fully recovered, even though they caught it early. Everyone wished her well and we’ve been pulling for her because we love her. But my mother wasn’t the deciding [...]

Candorville on YouTube

Blog: December 18th, 2006

According to Time Magazine, we are all the “Person of the Year,” and much of the credit for that goes to YouTube. YouTube’s begun to fulfill the promise of the Internet: Just a few short years ago, the national pastime of America’s youth (myself included, I confess) was sitting in front of a flickering TV [...]

Comic for 12-18


December 18th, 2006

It’s all in the timing.

Blog: December 20th, 2006

In 2001, according to former terrorism czar Richard Clark, he and others in the government demanded that President Bush pay attention to the threat from Al Qaeda. The White House ignored the demands (instead focusing on apparently more pressing matters, such as Internet pornography), and the entire world is familiar with the results of that [...]

It’s all in the timing.

Blog: December 20th, 2006

In 2001, according to former terrorism czar Richard Clark, he and others in the government demanded that President Bush pay attention to the threat from Al Qaeda. The White House ignored the demands (instead focusing on apparently more pressing matters, such as Internet pornography), and the entire world is familiar with the results of that [...]

When the story matches the ad…

Blog: December 20th, 2006

Came across this moment of synchronicity on the Washington Post’s website this morning, and just had to capture it for posterity:

There comes a time when you have to cut your losses, admit your mistakes (or at the very least, declare victory) and leave, and we very well may be at that point right now. What [...]

When the story matches the ad…

Blog: December 20th, 2006

Came across this moment of synchronicity on the Washington Post’s website this morning, and just had to capture it for posterity:  There comes a time when you have to cut your losses, admit your mistakes (or at the very least, declare victory) and leave, and we very well may be at that point right now. What [...]

Merry Christmas, Iraq, three years late

Blog: December 24th, 2006

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is something we should have done THREE @#$% YEARS AGO?
THE White House is expected to announce a reconstruction package for Iraq as part of a plan for a “surge” of up to 30,000 troops into Baghdad when President George W Bush unveils America’s new strategy [...]