Mike Flugennock

Yeah, at least they're talking, but if you understand the code, it all means big trouble, especially when you hear them say stuff like "Bipartisanship", "Compromise", "Grand Bargain", or "tough choices".

Good point... even inasmuch as the Internet democratizes media by allowing everyone to participate, it also becomes rife with conspiracy freakery and other idiocy for the same reason.

This is why I try to avoid reading comment sections on articles and blog posts. Though it largely depends on the site, many Internet comments sections seem to attract people with no original ideas or nothing substantive to say. One of my favorite pastimes is to skim through the comment sections on articles at, say, Associated Press or Yahoo News, and guess which commenters found that article via a link from the Drudge Report. Oh, for fun!

YouTube's comment sections have got to be the all-time worst, though. They're like an idiot magnet. Yesterday, in the comments under an AP video of Obama's press briefing on the Boston bombing, some Teabagger clown posted an incoherent outburst claiming that because the bombing happened in Boston on "Patriiots' Day", it was somehow a message to the Tea Party.

If Internet comment sections were bars, the YouTube comment sections would be a dimly-lit, loud, filthy, smelly old dive biker bar, with bloodstains on the floor, used syringes in the bathroom trash cans and toilets that don't work.

Here in the Land Of The Free, we don't hear jack shit in the media about the thousands of innocents murdered by Obama's drones, but just let a handful of Americans die in a bomb at the Boston Marathon and they scream so loudly you can't even hear yourself think. It's been two days since it happened, and the TV and newspaper are full of politicians yelling for "justice", and smarmy essays about how courageous and resilient Americans are.

So... does anybody here think that your average American politician or citizen will even try to make a connection between Obama's drones bombing civilians in Pakistan, to even consider how this might stir up resentment and rage around the rest of the world? Bwah ha ha ha ha ha hahhh. Dream on.

I really loved how the US and UK corporate media reacted to the outpouring of joy from the people at the death of Thatcher -- the way they pitched a fit and stomped their little feet and got all butthurt because the people weren't joining in the media's frenzy of weeping and lamenting over the death of one of the major architects of the current pain and suffereing of ordinary working people in the UK and elsewhere. The morning show on MSNBC, hosted by right-wing ex-Congressman Joe Scarborough and his coterie of syncophants, was especially awful, feating two whole days of over-the-top mourning and soppy reminiscing, never once mentioning her theft of money from retired miners and their families, Thatcher's slobbering over Chilean dictator Pinochet, or the poll tax riots...

Bwah ha ha ha ha hah. Ding, dong, the witch is dead!

Ahh, yeah. Thank you, Miss Obvious. How long has it been now that everybody and their cat found out that Armstrong was a cheat and a bully and a sociopath -- and how long has it been since everybody and their cat had moved on to more important issues in their lives? So, now, Oprah Winfrey finally gets around to doing her Big Interview with Sir Lancelot where he reveals that yes, in fact, he's a cheat and a bully and a sociopath. Bah.

I know violence is wrong -- especially aganist women -- but, still, every time I see this woman on my TV, I just want to smack the shit out of her.

Bellucci and Depardieu may be a couple of greedy rich bastards, but at least they're following through on their public threats... unlike the wussy Liberal movie stars here in the USA who were threatening to move to Canada if Bush was re-elected in '04, and if McCain was elected in '08, and if Romney had won last year.

D'oh, damn, my goof. That should've been "Nice one, Manos". Really, though, monstrously great. It's getting really frustrating that I haven't been able to come up with any Gaza cartoons (the only idea I've been able to grunt out is something based on a menorah). All I can come up with is these damn "Fiscal Cliff" gags.

Just threw my vote onto the pile.
Nice one, Tomas. That's positively bad-assed.

Y'know, despite the amount of destruction and misery inflicted on Haiti and the USA by the hurricane, the upside was that it got the US media to shut the hell up about the goddamned "election" for about a week or so...

Right on, just threw my vote onto the pile.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who took note of how many people in Haiti died in the hurricane -- including people who were still living in relocation camps three years after the earthquake.
I also can't help wondering if the US press would've spent so much time agonizing over the hurricane if it had gone in a more "normal" direction -- into the Gulf Of Mexico and into the coastal areas of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana -- instead of turning northward into areas with the highest concentrations of middle-class and rich people in the US.

Well, actually, it was only a "struggle" in the same way that professional wrestling is a "struggle".

I'm appalled, but not surprised. For me, the Nobel Peace Prize lost any credibility it may have had after they gave one to Barack Obama while he was in the midst of murdering civilians with drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Don't understand? I can explain it quite simply: the system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and powerful, the People have no real choices, and all the important decisions are already made. That's really all you need to know.
"If voting could change things, they wouldn't let us do it." --Emma Goldman

The really big news here for US Liberals is that they don't have to care about war, torture, extrajudicial assassination, imprisonment without cause, the harassment of activists, or warrantless surveillance for at least another four years.

Bravo, Gianfranco! "Cherchez la femme", indeed!
Screw the "election"; this has been the biggest story of the year for me. I've detested Petraeus for years, ever since he was Bush's boy, as well as after he became Obama's boy, when MoveOn suddenly scrubbed all derogatory references to Petraeus from its Web site (bastards). Seeing this bloody-handed sonofabitch lose his job because he couldn't keep his pecker stowed has got me doing the Happy Dance. Boo yah!

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. "Politricks", as old Bob Marley used to say.

Just threw another vote onto the pile.
Well done!
And, here I was just recovering from their giving a Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama.
They've really jumped the shark this time. They might as well just start giving away Nobel Peace Prizes in boxes of Cracker Jack.

"Switched off" is putting it kindly. It's like he wasn't even there. Remember at the Republican Convention, when Clint Eastwood had an imaginary conversation with Obama with an empty chair on the stage? I'm thinking now that old Clint wasn't as crazy as everybody thought he was.

Gorgeous, absolutely classic. This is probably the best illustration of an old (circa 2000) joke we have here about how the choice we have in elections is like the choice between Coke and Pepsi.

Compared to the fat, apathetic, scared-of-their-own-shadows Americans, the Greeks are out there tearing it up. Talk about sleeping on the job...