Here’s the line art for the still-ongoing drawing I’m making of “Oracle’s Last Supper,” featuring nearly every female hero of DC’s “Bat” family arranged in a “Last Supper of Christ” pastiche, plus a dog. There are 17 figures in all. Please click to see it larger.
It’s still not finished — there will to be two versions, a hand-inked version that will be auctioned for charity as part of Women of Wonder Day, and a computer-colored print — but I kind of like the clean look of the line art.
From left to right, the characters at the table are Katherine Kane (the original 1950s Batwoman), Betty Kane (the original 1950s Batgirl, Katherine’s niece), Robin (Stephanie Brown), Spoiler (Stephanie Brown), Batgirl (Barbara Gordon), Batgirl (Stephanie Brown), Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), Batwoman (Kate Kane), Huntress (Helena Wayne), Robin (Carrie Kelly), Black Bat (Cassandra Cain), and Batgirl (Charlotte “Charlie” Gage-Radcliffe, aka Misfit). In the background is Robin (Rochelle Wayne) sitting on a robot dinosaur; Blackbat (Barbara Hardy) on the giant rook; and Robin (Trish Plover) flying near the ceiling. And the dog in the foreground is Ace, the Bat-Hound.
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Your latest open thread on Alas Prime doesn’t appear to have made it here. If it had, I would have posted this link to it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/25/us-saudi-king-women-idUSTRE78O10Y20110925?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
And I would have posted this one.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/09/29/140915714/congratulations-television-you-are-even-worse-at-masculinity-than-femininity
“[T]here is something about this narrative hectoring about men not understanding manhood that seems particularly brutal in that it specifically attacks them for emotional ineptitude while simultaneously attacking them for having emotions.”
And this: How much does racism effect voting?
Hard to say. But you can get a pretty good idea you compare electoral outcomes in 2004 (when Bush beat Kerry with 50.7%) to outcomes in 2008 (when Obama beat McCain with 53%).
It’s not surprising that some parts of the country did not favor a French-speaking windsurfer from Beacon Hill. But it IS surprising how many of those places found Obama even MORE objectionable — even in the face of a national trend going the other direction.
Where are these places? See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/05/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_RECAP.html?ref=politics
and click on the 2d map. It shows all the places that voted more heavily Republican in 2008 than in 2004. Draw your own conclusions.
(H/T The New Republic, http://www.tnr.com/the-stump/95709/rick-perry-and-the-map-worth-thousand-words)
And this: Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus: the writing of Maus.
Intriguingly, when second section of Maus was published it immediately shot to the top of the New York Times best seller list — for fiction. The Times would eventually re-characterize this apparent story of mice and cats as a work of non-fiction/memoir.
Bedford’s Law identifies patterns in number distributions that occur in nature. When data deviates from this pattern, it strongly suggests that the data were faked. Alas, a new Bedford’s Law analysis of financial data suggests that we’re experiencing the biggest increase in financial fraud in the past 30 years.
Revealed – The capitalist network that runs the world
That’s BeNford’s law, not Bedford’s, as your quote correctly spells – proof, I guess, that you read what you think is there, not what actually is there.
Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
[Regarding the cost of health care, b]oth the subsidy for our [middle-class] son and the expenditure for our [foster] daughter expand the scope of the federal government, and both impact the deficit in the same way. Yet when the time came to strike a deal over taxes and spending in order to increase the debt ceiling in August, the expenditures that support the children of the poor were on the table while the expenditures that support the children of the middle class and wealthy, thanks to the unwavering insistence of Republican lawmakers, were not.
As the “super committee” goes to work, the same story is set to be repeated. The White House successfully insulated Medicaid from the “trigger” mechanism that will produce automatic cuts should the committee fail to reach an agreement. But in that scenario every other program for poor children will get hammered, from WIC to early childhood development assessment. At the same time, plummeting federal aid to the states will tempt state-level lawmakers to cut into their half of the Medicaid spending formula. Either way, the interests of poor children—and the tools that make modern foster parenting possible—are coming to a dangerous pass.
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Foster parenting teaches us how to live as so many low-income families already live—check to check, coupon to coupon, appointment to appointment. The difference is that most foster parents hold middle-class passports, and they can cut short their sojourn among WIC recipients and Medicaid administrators at any time. No one knows what exactly will happen to Sophia and the nearly half-million kids in her situation if they exercise that privilege. If Republican lawmakers have their way, we may well find out.
When libertarians discuss discrimination….
Steve Landsburg posted the joke, “We always knew that Penn State football was like a religion. Now we know which religion.” This has provoked a discussion on this vaguely libertarian blog about whether this joke inappropriately impugns Catholics or the Roman Catholic Church.
Some argue that the joke can’t impugn anyone it doesn’t mention; by taking offense, you must first concede that the shoe fits and therefore you undermine your grounds for taking offense. Others argue that a joke can promote stereotypes by referring to them, even in an unstated fashion.
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