Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 18, 2024The Biggest Crisis A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
- Untitled May 18, 2024
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Rogue Leaders or Bad Institutions?
Steve Waldman — a “a fellow traveler of the Bush administration” and onetime Iraq War supporter — writes:1 I no longer trust my own government to be the provider of a civilized society. No government is perfect or without corruptions. … Continue reading
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Quote: A Carrying Charge For Hope
This quote from Noah Brand is perfectly expressed: People joke about lottery tickets as a tax on people who are bad at math, but I don’t think that’s true. Lottery tickets are a carrying charge for hope. Between the time … Continue reading
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Saudi Women Granted The Right To Vote And To Run For Office
From The New York Times: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Sunday granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation … Continue reading
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Why Progressives Don’t Support Ron Paul
I’m a month late on this, but there’s a lot in Conor Friedersdorf ‘s post on progressives and Ron Paul that I agree with. And if I were a 40-year-old Democratic politician, I’d conclude, after watching Obama, that I could … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, crossposted on TADA, Elections and politics
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Open Thread and Link Farm: Me Am Play Gods Edition
I’ll be in Seattle for Jet City comic-con today; if you’re attending, please come and say hi. I’ll be the person sitting under the big Hereville sign. This is an open thread. Post what you want, when you want. Participants … Continue reading
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Links to various arguments about abortion
While doing some searching, I came across some abortion-related links I wanted to save, hence this post. Nearly all of these are pro-choice, although I stuck a token pro-life link in too. :-p Why Abortion is Moral — By Elroy … Continue reading
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Why Choice For Men is Wrong
At Unequally Yoked, a reader writes in: As a pro-choicer do you believe a man should have the right to opt out of parental responsibilities? It seems that if a woman has the right to choose whether or not she … Continue reading
Posted in Choice for Men, crossposted on TADA
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Reagan and Bush Sr. Debate Immigration
Alex Knapp writes: I’m not sure what astounds me more. The compassion and pragmatism in Reagan and Bush’s positions on illegal immigration, or the fact that they’re not speaking in talking points. Conor Friedersdorf writes: Of course, the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., crossposted on TADA, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc
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