Because, come on. Naked, sweaty Hitler?

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In Andrew’s Michelle Bachman post, Andre started a discussion about what rich get out of taxation versus poor people, and concludes: I’m simply arguing that it is a difficult proposition to prove, one way or another, who the greatest beneficiary is of that system. Here’s the thing, though: it really isn’t difficult at all. Wealth […]

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I really want to punch Tim Trench in the face. Sadly, he is fictional, so I cannot do this. It’s not because of his association with the nonpowered era of Wonder Woman comics. Which, incidentally were bad comics, and the attempt in recent years to rehabilitate these bad comics as being good or at least […]

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So last week’s elimination caused some drama, as Tatiana has gone on eTalk and a bunch of other media outlets bitching about her elimination bein unfair. Now, I thought Tatiana’s elimination was wrong – Melanie B. had a horrifically bad solo and Tatiana a good one, and that should count. But, rewatching Tatiana’s capoeira routine […]

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I know there are still four months left in 2009, but there’s just no way that this isn’t the best comics moment of the year. There’s just no way. There are two types of people in the world: people who like Roger Langridge’s The Muppet Show comic, and BAD PEOPLE.

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Public high school band shirts get banned because they reference evolution.

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RAMIFICATIONS OF DISNEY BUYING MARVEL – Storm now officially a “Disney Princess.” – Northstar not de-gayified, but just once again shuffled off into the Gay Corner, where the gays live. Nobody discusses the Gay Corner. Ever. They are there, because Disney is inclusive of all peoples. We just don’t talk about them. – All people […]

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FLAPJACKS: Man, I never knew there was so much shit I didn’t want. ME: Really. FLAPJACKS: I assume I wanted most shit. But I don’t want any of this shit. I came here to spend hard-earned money and look at this crap. Who the fuck wants GI Joe Minimates? ME: People who like GI Joe, […]

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1.) The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan has been ousted in the most recent election. The LDP has been in power almost continuously since 1955 – and really, longer than that, since the Liberal Democratic party formed out of the Liberal and Democratic parties making their unofficial collusion/cooperation in running the country official, so basically […]

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A long time ago, P.J. O’Rourke wrote in Parliament of Whores (probably the best book he ever wrote, and it’s been mostly downhill, albeit gradually, for him ever since) that “you can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.” And this has, for many policymakers, been an accepted truth for a very long time. […]

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More people emailed about health care, mostly because of Ted Kennedy dying, and what I think is that Ted Kennedy’s death will matter not one whit in the final accounting as to whether or not health care reform passes in the United States. The Republicans trying to kill reform may have liked Kennedy personally, but […]

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Justin Newberry, in comments here, says something that people have been emailing me about for days now: I may have missed something, so pardon me if I’m coming from the wrong place here, but: You do know that Marlon Wayans played Ripcord and not his brother Damon, right? Why do you think that all black […]

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The Predator, being as it is a reflection of Carol Ferris’ “inner masculine drive,” is sort of the first transsexual supervillain, albeit only in a weird Bronze Age sort of way where issues of gender had to be addressed with space magic. (Marvel would later refine the concept with Vamp, the pretty girl who turns […]

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