Penny Arcade strikes again, viciously and unconscionably resorting to the lowest kind of truth telling in the name of crass humor:
Those malicious fiends! They must be stopped! They’ll spoil the Narrative!
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Holes In One. Lots of ‘Em
Saturday, February 27th, 2010“No Gradient To Evil”
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010OK, Gabe is the artist for a rude gaming cartoon (which also happens to be one of the most consistently funny webtoons out there).
Anyway, today Gabe tells this story on his son, and for some reason, I think it holds a great truth. Can’t quite tease it out, but here it is:
On this particular occasion [my son] was playing the role of the emperor while I was Luke Skywalker. He had seated himself in my computer chair and when he spun around to face me I saw that he had placed a toy Lightsaber on the arm rest. He patted it gently and said “You want this don’t you?” I could not help but laugh at how ridiculous the scene was. This bothered him and he told me not to laugh at him because he was the emperor and he was evil. “Yes I know.” I told him and tried to get my act together but his little angry eyes underneath the hood of his Mickey Mouse sweatshirt made me laugh even more. “I’m bad.” he said and as if to prove it told me “I litter!”
“What?” I asked “What do you mean you litter?” He pushed back his hood and looked at me seriously “Well littering is against the law and the Emperor does all bad things right?” I imagined the Emperor stalking the halls of the Deathstar and munching on a snickers bar. He finishes the last bite and throws the crumpled wrapper over his shoulder. An Imperial Guard bends to snatch it up and the Emperor raises a hand. “Leave it.” he croaks. The guard pauses, his red gloved hand shudders as it hovers over the bit of garbage lying there on the Deathstar’s polished Durasteel floor. The emperor watches the guard’s discomfort with growing satisfaction, a smile creasing his shriveled face. The Guard stands and follows the Emperor away and he can not help but spare a backwards glance at the trash he left behind. With the glance comes a thought, a thought he will never share out-loud but one that shakes him to his very core. “I serve a monster!”
I looked at my son and realized that in his five year old mind there is no gradient to evil. For him, the act of destroying Alderaan and littering are equal. The sort of person who could to one might easily do the other. I smiled at him “Of course he litters son. He litters all the time.” He smiled knowingly and I reached out with the force to summon my Lightsaber.
“You Are Not Qualified”
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Chris Muir explains just exactly what the Senate is getting ready to debate:
[Click to embiggen.]
I’m not the only one blogging this strip today.
I wish this were funny. It’s not; it cuts way too close to the bone.
Dagwood Goes All Current Events On Us
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Sing!
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
From Lacronton in the forums over at Megatokyo.
“Don’t Trust Anyone You Meet Online”
Friday, September 25th, 2009
I whole-heartedly endorse this crucial PSA, which I picked up from Boing-Boing via Fred Gallagher’s Twitter Feed.
Waffle
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Oliphant Devolves
Friday, March 27th, 2009I used to enjoy Oliphant, the political cartoonist. He had a great style, and at least in his early days, some real wit to him.
Now, however, liberal socialist thinking has brought him down to this horrific hate piece:
It’s hard for me to accept that this heavy handed simplistic garbage came from the same hand as many of his expressive, detailed earlier pieces.
For shame, sir, for shame, You have extinguished your own light.
Who do you think you are, Ted Rall?
Island Off the Coast of France: Surveillance
Friday, March 27th, 2009Formerly Great Britain, home of George Orwell, has more police TV cameras spying on its subjects than just about anywhere on Earth. Doesn’t do much to actually stop crime of course.
Fred Gallagher over at Megatokyo recently put up this spoof of an official poster:
[Largo is a character in the Megatokyo webcomic; he's a very disruptive young man who strives always to act with honour, but who has almost no regard for the law.]
This is a spoof of another spoof. of an absurd anti-terrorist campaign by British “Anti-Terrorist” police.
The worst thing, the very worst thing, about the campaign is that Brit officials cannot bring themselves to name the actual terrorists: Muslim fanatics. Instead, they’re just trying to get real British subjects to rat on each other. Disgusting.
Scale
Friday, March 20th, 2009Every once in a while, xkcd says something important.
Hey, Newspaper Dinosaurs? When you are getting schooled by a two-panel stick-figured web comic, you are doomed. This is your meteor, and you called it down on yourselves.
Hm, just checking: thirty seconds times a thousand is thirty thousand seconds. That’s about eight hours. No surprise, Munroe actually did his math.