Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 18, 2014
Transcript:
No, to my knowledge he wasn't a skier. Not notably. Then why would they put Martin Luther King Jr. Day on one of the best ski weekends of the year? They put Christmas just before the biggest ski weekend of the year and I don't think anybody involved with that did a lot of skiing.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Except the Scandinavians who’ve used skis to travel for centuries
Plingle almost 11 years ago
I dont remember many scandinavians in the bible. Of course it’s possible I missed a few.
Varnes almost 11 years ago
And they put Easter…..Um….When did they put Easter?…..Anyway, Jef, the second panel is great…Classic….
Manhunter808 almost 11 years ago
I’m with you, Nabuquduriuzhur!
sonorhC almost 11 years ago
We don’t venerate King for his own personal family values, which were, as you note, not good. We venerate him for what he did for racial equality, which was excellent. Focus on the virtues, not on the vices.
jdmara almost 11 years ago
Dr. King did say “I’ve been to the mountaintop.”
hippogriff almost 11 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur: You still spouting that fascist Hoover crap? Take that “orgy on the March to Selma” lie. Can you really believe that happened all night after a 30 mile hike and before another 30 the next day? There was a meeting that night discussing strategy with most of the southern pastors who believed (in the quaint sexist language of the day) in the “brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God”, but that ended at 2:00. I got this from my own pastor, who was there. (In WW-II he earned the Navy Cross in sinking the last IJN large aircraft carrier, the wearing of which got looks of amazement when he was a chaplain off Korea.)
hippogriff almost 11 years ago
cubefarmer: The misrepresentative I am stuck with, Ralph Hall, finally admitted he is a Republican. Before that, John Connoly (who believed Oswald was trying to hit him and not JFK, did. The “Southern Strategy” (racism) didn’t get rid of many liars, but at least reduced some of their lies about party.
VanLaser over 3 years ago
skiing ~= walking on water