Paul Conrad by Paul Conrad

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  1. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 2 months ago

    Ooooookay, this is sort of weird…

  2. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 2 months ago

    Charles Addams?

  3. longtimecomicsfan

    longtimecomicsfan said, 2 months ago

    Don’t worry, Ted - we will not let the dream die!

    Thank you, Paul.

  4. HabaneroBuck

    HabaneroBuck said, 2 months ago

    Uh, but yeah, the dreamer is dead. Human worshippers always have a hard time facing that reality.

  5. BOB HASTY

    BOB HASTYGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    A man of great compassion and deep faith–Ted Kenedy never had to be reminded that none of us will make it out of here alive. There is a day of reckoning for each of us. Kennedy has shown us the class of those who will follow the path righteousness.

    The way of Truth,Justice and Beauty is followed by those for whom Love of Neighbor surpasses the broad road of self love.

    Thank you, Senator Edward M. Kennedy!

  6. Michigander

    Michigander said, 2 months ago

    The thumbs up is him realizing his dream for healthcare reform comes true (if it does).

  7. longtimecomicsfan

    longtimecomicsfan said, 2 months ago

    The dreamer is dead?

    That’s the wonderful thing about dreams - once people have been inspired by the dream, there are millions and millions of dreamers out there, carrying the dream forward and insuring it never dies, in spite of naysayers!

    That’s why dreams don’t die.

  8. johnking

    johnking said, 2 months ago

    Hey, all you bloggers, both those sick of the Teddyboy worship and those shoveling on the treacle, try this one on for size. With apologies to Hilaire Belloc:

    Here richly, with ridiculous display,

    The politician’s corpse was laid away.

    While some of his opponents cheered and slanged,

    I wept, for I had hoped to see him hanged.

  9. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    johnking, from what I’ve read here, I don’t see any worshippers shoveling on the treacle.
    I read that people know he was an imperfect person that made big mistakes but devoted his career to public service. By their own testimony, those with opposing views considered him a friend and a man of his word.

    He was born to wealth and privilege and certainly benefitted from it, as have many in our nation’s capital. But by all accounts, he did not use that privilege and influence to reward himself or his friends. He sought compromise by focusing on areas of agreement and building from there.

    He had extraordinary tragedy in his life, suffering the loss of a brother and sister at a very young age, the the loss of another sister to an institution, then, as we all know, the tragic loss of his two closest brothers to assassination. He accepted the mantle of family patriarch and fulfilled it with grace. Two of his three children developed cancer and he helped each through it to conquer it. That’s an extraordinary amount of loss and tragedy in one life.

    What I was impressed by his decision to change his own ways after the trial of his nephew for rape. He spoke briefly about it publicly and then he did it, he made a consequential change in his behavior. I give him great credit for that, it took internal fortitude to achieve, like an alcoholic or a drug addict overcoming addiction, it takes both faith and a strong character.

    Whatever happens to his soul is not in your hands, johnking, nor should it be. It’s presumptuous of you to think you know better than God.

  10. richgrise

    richgrise said, 2 months ago

    Unlike Mary Jo Kopechne.

    Anybody got a wooden stake?

  11. longtimecomicsfan

    longtimecomicsfan said, 2 months ago

    I’ve got a wooden stake and holy water, too. Saving it for Cheney.

    It’s like Stalin said: A million deaths is a statistic, one death is a tragedy (paraphrased from memory).

    It’s amazing how the bushies executed 163 men in Texas, many of whom were represented by public defenders who slept through trials and were later disbarred for alcohol and drug problems, and caused thousands of U.S. casualties and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties with a misbegotten war, but all the haters remember is Mary Jo Kopechne.

  12. fennec

    fennec said, 2 months ago

    longtime, here’s another truly horrifying one for you:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31mon2.html?_r=1&ref=global
    Innocents get killed all the time. Sometimes it’s an accident, others it is not.

  13. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    OK when you walk away from it fennec–because innocents get killed all the time.
    Thanks longtime for bringing up Bush–that is all you lefty democrats can do.

  14. longtimecomicsfan

    longtimecomicsfan said, 2 months ago

    It is ironic to be called out for bringing up Bush, when the Bush reference was a direct response to right-wing Kennedy haters bringing up Kopechne.

  15. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    No it is not ironic longtime–it is lame.

  16. fennec

    fennec said, 2 months ago

    Howie, you’re smarter than this. Get your act together so you can give us a good argument.

  17. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago

    Oh I get it fennec–agree with lefties and your act is together. Really do not care to argue but to just watch you folks contradict yourselves.

  18. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Howie, there are continual contradictions here from the right that I notice …. let’s try to be a little even-handed, it’s a virtue

  19. longtimecomicsfan

    longtimecomicsfan said, 2 months ago

    It is grossly unfair to accuse Howie of being smarter than that.

    The conservative right in this country has gotten past the point of wanting what’s best for the country - they just want to hang on to the hatred of all things “Liberal”, while ignoring the damage done recently by “Conservatives”. Kind of like the Tribalism displayed so recently between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or by the Janjaweed militias in Darfur, or the Serbs and Croats in Bosnia.

    “It doesn’t matter whether our guy was right or wrong, it only matters that he was OUR GUY!”

  20. pbarnrob

    pbarnrob said, 2 months ago

    Time to go back and re-read Gulliver’s Travels; “Hooray for our side!” whatever the argument was…

  21. striper77

    striper77 said, 2 months ago

    Is Ted in the process of getting cremated or his the smoke coming out of his coffin representing hell?

  22. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 2 months ago

    Tasteless much? I think it’s flowers, but it may well be frankincense representing heaven.

  23. churchillwasright

    churchillwasright said, 2 months ago

    Is Conrad waiting for ObamaCare to die so we could stuff it in that coffin before he graces us with a new toon?

  24. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Me Thinks Conrad “died” again. He goes for months w/o new posts. Meeanwhile for any poor soul who fell into this dead end:

    An Amish farmer walking through his field notices a man drinking from his pond, with his hand.

    The Amish man shouts:
    “Trinken Sie nicht das Wasser, die Kuhe und die Schweine haben in ihm geschissen!”

    Which means: “Don’t drink the water, the cows and the pigs have bleeep in it!”

    The man shouts back: “I’m a Muslim, I don’t understand your gibberish. Speak English, infidel !”

    The Amish man shouts back in English:

    “Use two hands, you’ll get more!”

  25. 4uk4ata

    4uk4ata said, 2 months ago

    I don’t get it, why is an Amish shouting in German?

  26. churchillwasright

    churchillwasright said, 2 months ago

    The Amish were originally from Germany. They still spechen sie deutsch.

  27. Magnaut

    MagnautGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    THE AUTHOR OF CHAPPAQUIDDICK HEALTHCARE….CONGRESS FLOATS EXEMPT…WE’RE ALL WITH MARY JOE