Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 19, 2008
Transcript:
Rick: Let's see what the competition looks like today... oh, good. Only 118,673,465 blogs still up. Jeff: How's the blogging going, Dad? Rick: Okay, I guess. I'm piecing together a living, but only barely. Turns out all those years at the Post count for very little... it's tough to leverage a byline in a media environment where anyone who can TYPE gets a byline! I'm competing for eyeballs with millions of narcissists... almost none of whom expect to get actually paid! Jeff: Whoa... that sucks, Dad. Rick: Sure does. Jeff: Want me to take my blog down? Rick: No, no, son - you're raising my game.
Durak Premium Member about 16 years ago
Too bad Rick Redfern can’t get a piece of the posting action yesterdays Doonesbury got, over 37 posts. Not bad. Not up in Pibgorns league yet but still, not bad. Saturday is a slow day for posters. Everyone is at home, instead of at work where they would be reading comics and posting, instead of working.
Unca Alby - The problem with saying that only the truly intelligent and informed should vote is dangerous. That was the problem in 1776 when only land owning white men could vote. Everyone else was considered to be too poorly educated to vote properly.
Don’t worry, enough ‘morons’ will vote for both sides that they will cancel each other out. It isnt necessary for us to urge people to disenfranchise themselves because they think they might not be informed enough to vote properly. We all know that BOTH sides have positives and negatives. It often just comes down to a gut instinct who to choose anyway.
Thefirstfirefly about 16 years ago
I see Trudeau has written a book of quotes about the Iraq war.
I wonder if he has one about the leading up to the war, where every democrat in Washington warned each other, America, and the world of Saddam’s WMDs and nuclear weapons.
I wonder if it has quotes from President Clinton’s 1998 nationwide address of Clinton’s proposal to conquer Iraq to remove WMDs, nuclear weapons, Saddam, and create a democracy there—to which democrats cheered…
ronebofh about 16 years ago
I wonder if anyone remembers the George W. Bush who wasn’t interested in nationbuilding, back when he was running for president in 2000.
NicodemusLegend about 16 years ago
Heh. I’m tempted to plug my blog, just to increase hits, thereby increasing the chance that I MIGHT actually get paid someday! ;)