Discussion

• beezley :

  Ok, all right, I laughed out loud... twice... while reading this week's This Modern Snob. "Deep fried fat balls - covered in delicious greasy fat sauce"!! -- where do you come up with this stuff? Hilarious. And McCain with the flag pin in his bare flesh. hahahaha! The Hilary huckster panel is pretty darn good too.

  Too bad you're an elitist comic strip drawer propagandizing for an elitist candidate! You'd be REALLY funny if your world view wasn't so messed up!

  :-)
  

  Posted on May 2, 2008 8:46 PM

• Beeyatch :

  "drawers" what? boxers or briefs?

  Posted on May 2, 2008 11:04 PM

• beezley :

  Ok, "artist" then, beeyatch. Or replace "comic strip drawer" with "cartoonist." I was trying to help him feel less elitist. Yeah, that's the ticket.

  Now hold still so I can beeyatch slap you.
  

  Posted on May 5, 2008 12:21 PM

• Beeyatch :

  the fried fat balls is hilarious but it's just a goof. the hillary panel is REAL. i have only ever heard one class of people whine about "elitists"..... you guessed it, ELITISTS! hence the highly paid media professionals panel. brilliant.
  

  Posted on May 5, 2008 10:48 PM

• beezley :

  I also loved the comment in the Hilary panel, "... just like I ALWAYS do when I need to relax!" Something about that combined with my perception of Hilary is hilariously incongruous. The fried fat balls laugh was a funny gem in the midst of something real too though, and it is something that bothers me about elitist Tom Tomorrow (and by the way, I make less than $100k/yr and don't consider myself elitist). It's in the Hilary panel also -- a view of "those folks" as dumb, inconsequential middle-America. It's ironic that Tomorrow is jabbing at the frivolity of the "elitist" label when he (his strip) almost invariably drips with condescension and pomposity toward those he stereotypes as inferior. Heh, maybe that's why he mocks the label!

  Posted on May 7, 2008 12:45 PM

• a2phil :

  I was raised to believe that "Anyone Can Become President", but in the 30 years since I started voting, I see it as more like "Anyone Who's A Millionaire Can Become President" (I challenge anyone to come up with a previous U.S. President who wasn't previously a lawyer, landowner, or a famous military officer-what do you expect from a country set up by a bunch of rich, white guys?)

  I won't believe in the American electoral process until the homeless guy living in the refrigerator box behind my building becomes President!

  Posted on May 12, 2008 11:35 AM

• beezley :

  a2phil, what process ~do~ you believe in?

  I think that a certain level of education is required. The president must be able to learn requirements of the office, as well as have an understanding of the Constitution, history, government, etc. Most people who have paid the price to learn such things are wealthy as a byproduct. If you have the wherewithal to pay the price it takes to prepare to be President, then most likely you've been successful in other ways as well. I find it weird when people who have obviously not developed the inner/mental skills it takes to be President make disqualifying comments about the President, or even weirder, act as if they are the President's peer. Same when people act that way regarding anyone who has paid a big price to have achieve something.

  Posted on May 19, 2008 4:16 PM