On Religion. And Living

There it all is, folks, right there. That's your religion for you. It's certainly mine.

Have a nice day.

The Dog's Bark

Saw this yesterday and loved it.

That is one brilliant dog.

Happy Birthday, Calvin---and Hobbes!

From the New York Times this morning.

Thirty years ago today, a mischievous 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger appeared in a comic strip.

It was the start of a 10-year run for “Calvin and Hobbes,” a peek into childhood that a Wall Street Journal essay this year called America’s strangest, funniest and most profound comic strip.

The strip took its name from the serious philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, but the comic’s Calvin believed in having the most fun with the least amount of effort and the wildest imagination.

Calvinball, for instance, is a sport with no rules except those Calvin makes up as he goes along. (The Washington Post this year compared Donald J. Trump’s campaign to Calvinball.)

At its peak, “Calvin and Hobbes” ran in 2,400 newspapers. Then in 1995, the creator, Bill Watterson abruptly ended it with little explanation and has been largely out of view since.

“I’m proud of the strip, enormously grateful for its success and truly flattered that people still read it,” he said in 2010, “but I wrote ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ in my 30s, and I’m many miles from there.”

Still, anything is possible. The cartoons “Bloom County” and “Doonesbury,” which soared in the same era, only to be retired, made comebacks.

Here's hoping.

The "Thinning of the Herd" the Planet Needs?

Republicans vs. Everyone Else

Yesterday's Zippy the Pinhead

Kansas Republicans and Their Dirtywork Get Rightly Trashed Today

Yessiree, Bob, Kansas Governor Brownback, specifically, but all the Republicans in Kansas, really, got trashed today, what with all their "trickle down" economics plans that have so wrecked their state's finances and budget. It's from ever-brilliant Garry Trudeau in his Doonesbury strip:

 

 

If only Kansans would quit electing these "for the rich" fools.

Hey, we can hope, can't we?



Getting Back to "Biblical Principles"

With thanks to Dr. Bob Minor for the link. (click on picture for easier viewing).

Congratulations, Missouri, on your state murder last week.

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The Strip - NYTimes.com

We have to fight for an end to campaign contributions

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The Cato Institute, defined

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Documentary to see, Nov. 15

Who didn't or doesn't love "Calvin & Hobbes"?

The guys who write our tax laws

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Just as we suspected, right?

We need to kill "campaign contributions", folks

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Unless and until we get the big, ugly, corrupting money, and its influence, out of our election system, we will continue to have our representatives, their legislation and so, our laws and finally, our government bought for corporations and the wealthy and not for the nation.

And it will never happen unless or until we, the people, demand it and make it happen.

On Libertarians

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And this would just be the beginning.

Link: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

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A better question: why do we let the wealthy and corporations do this to us?

Don't give in to cynicism

It's as Robert Reich keeps saying, we can't be lazy and we can't give in to cynicism.

I miss my Calvin & Hobbes.

I'm so old...

...I know who this guy is/was, what his name is, how he sounded saying this and what he was from.

THAT old.

The Star wimps out---badly--and again

First things first--let me make it clear, I am and always have been a big, big fan of Garry Trudeau and his marvelous, funny, witty, sometimes scathing comic strip, "Doonesbury." It was great back in the 60's, when it began and he is one of a tiny group of writers, cartoonists who can be creative and unique and funny and biting and skewer our social and political scene, all at the same time. Now, this week--late last evening--I find out Mr. Trudeau has done a strip on the Texas transvaginal screenings they require for abortions down their in Right Winger's La-La land and that THE KANSAS CITY STAR IS WIMPING OUT AND NOT GOING TO RUN IT. Sissies. It seems Mr. Trudeau knew it was going to be too controversial for some newspaper editors so he created a 2nd strip for them. I've always been proud that this stip and Universal Uclick is out of our own hometown of KCMO but here they go against all that and substitute the non-controversial material for what they perceive to be people's soft sensibilities, instead: "Steve Shirk, manager editor of The Kansas City Star, said his paper would use the replacements in the comics section."

I say again, The Star is filled with weinies, clearly. They've wimped out. They've taken the coward's, weak-minded route. And that's sad. I'm tired of media people and groups who don't give their viewers or readers the benefit of the doubt and side with adulthood and maturity and education. I'm of the opinion that, one day soon, The Kansas City Star will get the future it deserves, since it never took any "high road" or challenged its readers, or, for that matter, itself, to do its best work. Link: http://news.yahoo.com/papers-debate-doonesbury-series-abortion-law-214114722.html

Welcome to life

Vega Choir’s cover of “Creep” set to visuals of Charlie Brown’s oh, so very tragic life-- With thanks to "Dangerous Minds": http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/youre_a_creep_charlie_brown

It's a Calvin & Hobbes Christmas

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Merry Christmas, y'all.