Ted Rall for July 14, 2010

Everything you would want in a Rall cartoon – blood, whiskers, and a strange feeling of “What is this about?”

heh, “blood and whiskers” could be a good book title…

thank you thank you thank you for the hearty laugh!!!,

the “hee hee” MAKES it, bro!

Just to be a pedantic noodge, Angst doesn’t have the umlaut (¨).

RE: “What is this about?” What’s the source of the headline? Seems like something that would be all over the five o’clock news…or not. Flagged the spammer. Always enjoy that.

It’s better to burn out than it is to rust…

Hope I die before I get old (Talking ‘bout my generation!)

You have to flag it yourself for that to show up (in red).

”Just to be a pedantic noodge, Angst doesn’t have the umlaut (¨).”

An angstrom symbol (å) might have been more appropriate….

Most of the stuff that gen-xers call their own actually was started in the mid ’70s by those called boomers, because we remember Kennedy, but mostly remember being annoyed that cartoons were preempted for the funeral. Our big sister was a hippy. We were climbing a tree when Armstrong walked on the moon. We made the cartoon channel & classic rock radio big. (Hint to xers now running those stations; if no one heard of them before MTV, it’s not classic rock.) We needed it because mainstream went disco & country.

Armstrong walking on the moon was a non-event for us, because we already had Star Trek.

DrCanuck, I wasn’t presenting my own pairing, I was quoting Neil. (And you call yourself Canadian…)

Simple fact is that “boomers” are offing themselves at much higher rates than “average”. Looking around at those texting, and whining about not being spoiled enough, so they’re depressed, hmmm Darwin awards??

“Armstrong walking on the moon was a non-event for us, because we already had Star Trek.”

Suicide is funny????

At age 77 going on life eternal from God’s promise for faith in Messiah Jesus…..I take life seriously and IMO suicide is no laughing matter….

there is no end to examples of human stupidity……..in accepting any idiotic idea while rejecting the truth offered to every human in the Bible.

An editorial cartoon that makes a joke about something that, in another context, wouldn’t be funny at all?!? I’m shocked…SHOCKED!!!

How long has this sort of thing been going on?!?

Huh? About 100 years, you say?

Never mind…

Thanks fitzoid. You said it better than I could have. bobwinners: “Define ‘middle aged’.” A long time ago, when I was about 50, I said something to a then girl friend about being middle aged. She harrumphed and asked, “Middle aged? How many people do you know that are 100?” Actually I knew one, my grandmother, but my girl friend said she didn’t count. Flagged the spammer again: Persistent little bugger

“Middle Age” was never intended to mean the midpoint of your lifespan. You’re “Middle-Aged” when you’re no longer “Young” but you’re not yet “Old” (“Young” in this sense indicating your prime, not your childhood). As such, much depends on how you hold up, or how you feel (Webster’s, however, puts the range as “about 40 to 60”).

The concept of “Middle Age” is positively Medieval.

They’re happy to keep us irritated – it makes for more pithy comments.

Oh, well a touch of grey, kind of suits me anyway.

My mom is about to turn 98, and I’ve got her scheduled for a birthday hot air balloon ride. She’s a tad gimpy, but her brain works just fine, well most of the time.

These are editorial commentary, not just comics, some are supposed to make people face reality, an think- Rall may get extreme at time, but he does make people think- is that too painful for America?

Frequently. Mostly, people are too busy making a living.

Editors view spam the way GW Bush viewed disaster funding: generous people (us) can do more than the Government (they) can.

In other words, they’re just lazy.

Maybe it’s just the web design.

and because we have free speech and access on teds page they keep spamming it all up..yeah, i understand. got another one, and i just turned off the talk radio, and tv and i feel powerful,and suddenly getting a better additude, AND I feel happy, and I’m NOT going down by myself…

I hope it was literature. If so, it was pretty good. If not, I’m concerned….

Loved it jax, the fruitcake bouquet with a hint of Sam Kinnison.

Dr canuck, it’s some reasons why us baby boomers are going suicide- was a comment on Teds toon..thas all…right off the top of my boomer head, im fine.

Maybe you were using the 90% of your brain that ordinarily doesn’t get used.

I fully expect that, when the time comes, I’ll choose the manner and timing of my own death (unless, of course, it’s taken out of my hands before I’m ready to go). It’s not a question of despair, it’s a question of diminishing returns. Everybody’s got to go sometime, so why not choose your own demise? When I figure “OK, I’ve had enough”, I plan to invite my close friends, have a party and say goodbye, and retire to the back room with the apple sauce and the prescription pills. I’m not recommending this for everybody, obviously, and I wouldn’t want anybody else to make that decision for me. But whose life is it anyway? I am more antique Roman than modern Dane.

Sure, maybe when I’m 80 or so I’ll look ahead and say “If I live another 5 years, I might see this, that, or the other”, but I can say now “If I live 100 more years I might see this, that, or the other” and it’s not going to happen.

I know this isn’t really what the cartoon is about, but I think suicide is a fundamental human right.

“Since of aught that he leaves no man knows aught, what is’t to leave betimes? The readiness is all.”

The rest is silence.

It is not just baby boomers, our troops as well, no figures for vets

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblogupshot/20100716/usyblog_upshot/record-number-of-u-s-soldiers-commited-suicide-last-month

I’d say “Hail Satan!” – but he doesn’t exist either.