Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 16, 2010

Tojo was not a good shot. He tried to escape capture at the end of WWII by shooting himself in the chest four times. He was later executed for war crimes.

Not a good reference here.

That completes the old “axis of evil.” Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. They affected the lives of so many in a relatively short period of time.

All-in-all, Skeezix makes a valid point.

dont stop there just go back to slick willies turm where so you even start?

as a matter of fact most of our problemsfrom today began in his term he and his wife changed most everything in everyday life just to protect their own behinds in the future at our giving up more freedom and rights while they kept on making millions and getting away with murder

Compared to Skeezix most people are kids, even me.

“This delusion is particularly easy to fall into when it coincides with the widespread popular delusion that intellect is evil. That the myth of the evil intellectual is widespread and popular there can be no doubt … Just as the citizens of a paper-mill town don’t smell the sulfur fumes that thicken their yellow air, so we tend to be unaware of the pervasive fear of mental clarity, and to share it unconsciously. We turn off our minds for the same reason that we turn off our lights: we want to sleep in darkness.

Every ruling group wants the masses to be docile, uncritical, unquestioning, unthinking. Virtue, therefore, has always been associated with ignorance and inarticulacy. In view of the exacerbated official anti-intellectualism of the last quarter-century, bad grammar is now a badge of safety, an assurance that we are real folks, not pointy-headed innaleckshals or elitist snobs. The basic cause of bad writing is not lack of brain power but lack of courage.”

– Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, Nov. 1977

thanks for the reminder, Ravenswing

Let’s not forget Stalin in your axis of evil. Just because he was a supposed ally during WWII doesn’t mean he wasn’t an evil man. But the dictator with the most deaths of his own people to his credit was Mao Tse Tung (however you spell it).

What is more evil Macushalondra? Stalin himself? Or us allying with him, supporting him, even condoning what he did simply to get what we want? Would he have done those things as easily if he didn’t know that he’d be allowed to get away with it? Just another one of the many times we simply looked the other way.

Wow! I’ve been away for a few weeks and had some catching up to do. I’m surprised at how much has happened since just before Christmas.

I thought the ending to the Christmas story was nice. And I really enjoyed how it transformed into the current story line. I also enjoyed everyone’s comments on Veterans, thank you.

Oh, just because there is no, as of now, Army Museum doesn’t mean the Army does not have museums. Someone mentioned earlier the Infantry Museum at Fort Benning. Fort Huachuca has a great museum for the Buffalo Soldier era. My adopted home here in Kentucky, Fort Knox, has the Patton Museum about 5 miles from the Gold Vault. My favorite Army museum is at Fort Myer, VA. This is the home of the Old Guard, the Soldiers who maintain the vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Old Guard has it’s own museum. It is the oldest unit in the Army, going back 200 years. I highly recommend it.

I noticed a few comments earlier saying what a waste money spent on a museum is. And I also noticed comments on how ignorant some thought our students are. Usually these comments were made by the same people. Come on now, you can’t have it both ways. Sure, we can save money and close the museums. But don’t complain about our children being ignorant. We waste tons of money on projects with nowhere near the significance, importance or value of a museum.

Recently on the MS-NBC program “Morning Joe” they were making fun of how Sarah Palin bobbled Glenn Beck’s question of who was her favorite Founding Father. She danced and dodged, tried to say they were ALL her favorite, then blurted out “George Washington” as if she suddenly remembered what a Founding Father was.

In the course of the resulting banter, the beautiful and intelligent Mika Brzezinski chimed in “Abraham Lincoln”, as if he too were a Founding Father.

No wonder America is letting its freedom drain away.

Nina looks like she could use a day at the spa. OTOH after such stunning revelations about today’s generation, maybe these good old folks just want to pack it in now and call it a century.

WW2 ended 65 years ago. Lot of young people come of age and gone to flowers since then, not forgetting those in just the past year.

Hope and war spring eternal in the human breast.

Sadly we need to be careful with our sarcasim since so many take the last thing they see or hear as truth. Kennedy died as Oliver Stone envisioned it , Lincoln was a founding father and we won the revoultionary war against either Japan or Mexico.

If you do not learn the lessions of history you wil be required to take the exam over.l

We can thank the interference of our ‘federal government’ busybodies who have usurped the authority of the states in education.

Dypack is back! I missed your comments.

I see some new names too today, I think. I wonder if the strip is drawing new readers, or prompting more comments…

Like some of the other commenters, I’m also curious to know what some of the old gang like Earl, Gertie, Upton and Ramona are doing these days.

That *is* irony, isn’t it axe-grinder?

More Gerd and Bertie? whmill, your right to an opinion is hereby revoked on the grounds of flagrant abuse.

looking at the fact that Japan & Germany have become succesful/somewhat democratid Countries after and to this day why not Russia? Does Ringo Starr playing there in 1998 (Russia), Paul Mc. playing there in 2003 show the significance of where the country go if it wants to be. I hope so.