Ted Rall for July 07, 2023

Let me guess

The bible?

What do you get from a committee? Seriously. Any committee. Any time or anywhere. About anything.

You get complex mediocrity. That’s what committees DO.

Basic math book adding and subtracting only no multiplying (too much like sex).

If we burn everything controversial our lives will be filled with vanilla ice cream, and Ann of Green Gables books.

I don’t know if I would want to live in a world without my Bible and Mark Twain (and yes, I know how crazy that sounds. I’m a walking paradox).

The cartoon isn’t about book banning (or book burning). It’s about the awarding of prizes.

Prizes awarded by committee don’t go to works that are original or challenging, they go to works which nobody finds objectionable. They may be better than mediocre, but they tend to be conventional. (There are exceptions.)

You can extend the idea the the decisions on what books actually get published, or (more clearly) what movies the studios actually greenlight.

Every year Medicare sends out a 50+ page benefits book to everyone on Medicare.

Guess ted rall got passed over for the Pulitzer Prize, again.

No Macarthur grant either.

No Netflix series based on his work? Sad.

7-11 is looking for asst. managers, just sayin’.

In my last few years teaching, when we were required to be on a committee, that I be allowed to create a “committee to develop new committees”. It was not approved.

Ted and Stanti regularly complain about the Pulitzer judging for cartoons. Their arguments against the credibility of some of the judges seems to bear weight, though, their complaints, in general, smell of sour grapes, meaning, should adequate judges be assigned, I still can’t see either of them winning.

Well, if your work were the quality of Bell, Luckovich, Bennett, Ohman, Zyglis, Wuerker, Fiore or even Breen maybe they would. And definitely stop working for Vladdy Putin’s birdcage liner. Maybe then you can make it to finalist again as you did in 1996

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” SIr Barnett {innapropriate last name the censor committee does not allow here.}

Find out on Monday where Ted does not apply his 6-day rule.