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1. 23 days ago on Outland

   He so WOULD say that… XD

2. 23 days ago on Outland

   I’m not getting what all those white splotches are.

3. 23 days ago on Outland

   Every time some maga chud starts blathering that evergreen canard “You libs all loved him back when he was a Democrat!”, I immediately think of Trudeau’s savage mockery of him through the decades.

4. 26 days ago on Peanuts

   I’ve always felt it’s a bit awkward when Peppermint Patty and Lucy are together. I can’t put my finger on exactly why, but PP makes Lucy seem a little redundant. I don’t know why that should be, since they have totally different personalities and they give Charlie Brown totally different kinds of grief. But I don’t know. Lucy just seems so ineffectual whenever PP’s around.

5. 26 days ago on Maintaining

   Fifteen years ago, this was still something we thought we could joke about.

   Now, it is very much within the realm of possibility.

6. 26 days ago on Maintaining

   He’s in love with a woman who’s not only a blithering, blathering moron, but who wouldn’t spit on him if he was on fire?

   (Palin. Not Fey.)

7. 26 days ago on Maintaining

   Is chocolate eggnog a thing…?

8. 26 days ago on Doonesbury

   Trudeau’s process used to be that he would mail a few weeks’ worth of penciled strips to Carlton in Kansas City. Carlton would then throw away the pencils after inking over them, as Trudeau saw no reason to keep them. Sometime in the early ‘80s Trudeau got a fax machine, so was then able to just fax the pencils over instead of mailing them. But he still continued to throw away his pencils once Carlton had safely completed his inking. It wasn’t until Newsweek did a cover story in 1990 that reporter Jonathan Alter got a chance to observe Trudeau’s creative process and told him that he really should be saving the penciled originals, and Trudeau was persuaded. This is why no pencils from before 1990 exist. But they’ve all been saved from that point forward. Clusters of them have been exhibited from time to time, or been published in various retrospectives.

   Entertainment Weekly ran its story (the theme was “unseen collaborators in the arts”) about a year after the Newsweek feature, and recklessly misrepresented the role Carlton played. The Wall Street Journal pounced at a chance to take a shot at Trudeau and published a snarky editorial further spreading the misleading claim. Trudeau’s syndicate demanded a retraction, but didn’t get one until they threatened legal action. The Journal then ran a very halfhearted and equally snarky retraction. But by then, the damage was done. Even 33 years later, many people still have the false info in their heads, picked up somewhere along the way. That’s just how these things work, sadly.

9. 28 days ago on Doonesbury

   Does your kind ever, EVER get bored with making absolute clowns of yourselves? “Calling for genocide against Israel”. Jesus lord. You people are beyond ridiculous.

10. 28 days ago on Doonesbury

    I have NEVER understood that, nor have I ever seen anyone explain it.