Comments (32) Jump to Comments Form

1. 

   ahab said, about 1 month ago

   Air-France plane crash - June 2nd over the ocean. I wasn’t aware of an American on the flight.

2. 

   scottfreitas said, about 1 month ago

   “The government didn’t help Kim when she was poor”

   Funny, America is the home of the Single Slut, where any chick can get pregnant, then go see some female bureaucrat over at the local “Health and Human Services” aka “Theft Of Other People’s Hard-Earned Money” agency, and be given an EBT card which lets her buy enough food to turn both herself and her illegitimate kids into total porkers; along with Section 8 public housing, Medicaid, and whatever job training and student loans she wants IF she actually bothers to ask for any. Also women get preferential treatment in both education and the workplace (roughly 2/3 of all current American college students are female, good luck in the future when most men are stuck living in grinding poverty and predictably turn to crime and violence as a result), and aside from the military make up nearly 3/4 of all government employees..

   Yeah, “poor” Kim aka Ms. Average American, she works at least as hard for all her “free” stuff as Osama worked for his Ignoble Peace Prize…

   PS if this comic is about an actual woman named “Kim”, how does her poor-poor-pitiful-me depiction line up with her being on that particular Air France flight, which would have cost her a LOT of money…

3. 

   rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

   Well Scott, for now, or until Ted enlightens us further, this is only a “cartoon Kim.” But just to be on the safe side, stay angry. Stay extremely angry. Good.

4. 

   sharon27 said, about 1 month ago

   such wonderful christian ranting. you’re all going to hell.

5. 

   HOWGOZIT said, about 1 month ago

   We have been there since January sharon27.

6. 

   Ted Rall said, about 1 month ago

   I love these comments sections. Before they existed, we sent out cartoons and never knew how people would interpret them. Yes, it’s just a generic cartoon Kim, no one in particular. It refers to the weird American obsession with retrieving body parts, whether it’s gristle from Ground Zero, bits of DNA from the Valujet crash in the Everglades, negotiating with Vietnam for the return of dead GIs, and the recent return of the pilot who died during the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq.

7. 

   Adam Sperry said, about 1 month ago

   To continue Mr. Rall’s comment above:

   We’re also suddenly very concerned about fertilized eggs and the brain-dead.
   
   Otherwise, there are factions who wish you would kindly sod-off as you contract childhood diseases, try to get an education, eat healthy, live in a place that is not a rat-infested slum, and proterct you from wildly greedy corporate forces.
   
   Basically, while you are alive, the Republicans (and some Dems) wish you would stop asking for your government to help and protect you in any way.

8. 

   Anarcissie said, about 1 month ago

   Too bad Ted had to explain it. I was enjoying the mystery: “Who is Kim?” But we know the answer is “You, sucker.” Superior beings like bankster Scott excepted, of course.

9. 

   DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

   Hi, Anarcissie the Newby. Welcome aboard.

10. 

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    Just a tip, Anarcissie… always check your blood pressure if your scroll down below the toon and start reading the commentary.

11. 

    edmondd said, about 1 month ago

    Scathingly funny, but funny nonetheless Ted.

    I don’t find any sense either in honoring a dead body. The person doesn’t exist anymore. The body is just a carcass, an empty vessel.

    My hope is that the person transcends in some metaphysical way. Life is just too beautiful; I think I’d rather suffer the most unbearable of sorrows than never having existed at all.

    I don’t agree with Scottfreitas, though I agree that women have it a little bit easier, especially when they’re young and beautiful, then it’s just a free ride through life.

    If I could be born again, but as a hot looking homosexual woman, I’d do it.

    …uhmm… maybe not.

    well…

    …only if I ended up looking like Megan Fox!

12. 

    Corosive Frog said, about 1 month ago

    Men say women have it easier, women say men have it easier. Have you ever heard the phrase “the grass is always greener on the neighbor’s lawn”?

    Some masculinists and some masculinists really act like those eight year olds in schoolyards saying “boys are stupid” and “girls are stupid” at each other.

    That’s why I define myself as a non manichean feminist; men and women, we are all in this together.

13. 

    fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

    Zeus and Hera were arguing about whether sexual intercourse was more pleasurable for men or for women. They decided to ask the wisest mortal they knew, Tiresias. Tiresias said “How should I know? I’ve never experienced it from the woman’s point of view.”

    Zeus changed Tiresias into a woman (temporarily) so he could go out and conduct experiments. When s/he was done, s/he (Tiresias) came back to the Olympians and said “Women get more pleasure. No question.” Zeus was so incensed at this answer that he struck Tiresias blind, but Hera was so pleased that she gave Tiresias the ability to see the future, in compensation.

    That’s how Tiresias got his oracular gift, and why he’s often portrayed in classical art as having both a long beard and prominent breasts.

14. 

    edmondd said, about 1 month ago

    Okay if it’s being a Megan Fox with a beard…fuhgeddaboudit!

15. 

    rarmai said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah, life should be for the living. A decent government would focus on helping all people have better lives. Sadly ours is devoted to the twisted interests of the rich and powerful.

16. 

    Jim said, about 1 month ago

    Life . Your results and milage may vary .

17. 

    fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

    Katie Holmes has a beard.

    Or IS a beard.

    One or the other…

    Tell me, scottfreitas, how do these Single Slut mothers GET to be mothers? Do they lure poor, unsuspecting men into their beds, using them as unwitting accessories in their plot to undermine American Masculinity?

    By Jis and by Saint Charity,
    Alack! and fie, for shame!
    Young men will do ‘t, if they come to ‘t,
    By C_ck, they are to blame!

    I read a quote from Rush L. this morning, where he literally referred to the “emasculation of America.” How would one go about that, by amputating Florida?

18. 

    churchillwasright said, about 1 month ago

    TED: While I don’t (usually) agree with your point of view, I (usually) respect it. One of the things I respect you for is checking out and commenting on this site.

    We had a very brief conversation here a few months ago regarding the cessation of the comments section on Yahoo! News following news stories in general and your column in specific.

    I check out your web site often, because I know it’s a place to go to comment on your column (and comics), but no one ever does. I’m going to assume this must bother you, too.

    Maybe nobody knows where to go to leave feedback. If I may make a suggestion: Why not put a line within the body of your column along the lines of “if you’d like to comment or disagree, please do so at my website” and give the link? I don’t think you could do it at the very end, because syndicators and editors would just cut it off.

    Or maybe there’s a written (or unwritten) rule that you just don’t do this.

    Any feedback? Thanks!

19. 

    ransomdstone said, about 1 month ago

    Teds grasp of reality is marginal.

20. 

    ransomdstone said, about 1 month ago

    Teds grasp of reality is marginal.

21. 

    ransomdstone said, about 1 month ago

    Ted’s grasp of reality is marginal.

22. 

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    Hey ransomdstone, if you are a “genius” you sure haven’t quite mastered the “post comment” button yet.

    All of us are wasting our time, walking around as humans, comparing which is the better roll of the dice. I’m convinced that there’s no higher incarnation than Golden Retriever. Everywhere you go people sigh and smile and hug you. You’ve got your own modeling career… you can even have an accident on the carpet occasionally and that’s okay, too. You look absolutely stunning, and glossy, and huggy wuggy… need I say more??

23. 

    Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

    Well Mr. Rall I haven’t always understood your cartoons, and there were some I didn’t like, but I am very impressed to find that you take the time to read the comments, and even reply!

    Thank you for doing that.

    I also make a point of reading the comments, and can only offer the advice to read them all, but let the angery ones wash over you and then drift away, anger is posion, remember the honest ones, even you disagree with them because, unlike the angery ones, the person did take time to think.

    If there seems to be a lot anger out there that’s because there is! People who want to control people have realized that the first thing they need to do is get people angry because it makes them stupid.

24. 

    audieholland said, about 1 month ago

    Hello Ted,

    Here’s what I think about the American government’s obsession with retrieving dead US bodyparts.

    
    

    1. The American government just values good old fashioned relics, coming from the bodies of American martyrs.

    
    

    2. The American government prefers its people dead. That’s the only logical conclusion I can reach (apart from the irrational relic explanation).

    
    

25. 

    Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

    Sorry to take up space with another comment, but when Herblock, a famous political cartoonist, was a asked, “Aren’t political cartoons suppose to make people angery so they will act?” His reply was, “What I hope they do is make people think, so they will act!”

    There is much to be angery about, but think before you act.

26. 

    DrCanuck said, about 1 month ago

    rikoshayrabbit, the big Golden Boy to the left thanks you for your kind words.

27. 

    rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 month ago

    See what I mean, doc? They’ve even got their “masters” writing thank you notes for them. Made in the shade… woof woof

28. 

    Palestino said, about 1 month ago

    Ted,
    I can’t wait to see your comment about Obama’s Nobel prize..

29. 

    fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

    Ken, you make good points but undercut them by your repeated misspelling of “angry.” If there were a way to draw you aside privately, I’d have done so.

30. 

    Ken Warren said, about 1 month ago

    fritzoid like most graduates of the current American education system I am lost without “spellcheck”.

31. 

    EnglishTeacher said, about 1 month ago

    Seek out a good English teacher and fill in the gaps now.

    Community colleges rock.

32. 

    fritzoid said, about 1 month ago

    When I spell “weird” it looks wierd, but when I spell “wierd” it looks even weirder.