NAATB

Grover Norquist, who constantly whines about paying taxes, has compared describing Tea Party morons as "tea baggers" to using the word "nigger." And Tea Baggers sure do have it rough. They've had to deal with that horrible slur for, oh, 18 months now. In unrelated news, a poll showed they feel too much has been made of the problems facing black people.

Here is Grover's quote in full:

"This remark is the equivalent of using the 'n' word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means. The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them," ATR president Grover Norquist tells Inside the Beltway.

So Grover Norquist has no blacks friends or grasp on history, distant or recent. That much is clear right away. But why even ascribe such sinister motivations to those of us who love to use the term? It's pretty simple: Americans love of a cheap, easy, dirty pun. If you hang bags of tea from your tri-cornered hat, people are probably going to mention the fact that dunking a nutsack into your mouth shares the phrase.

Wednesday: Mister Rogers Ruins America

Blog Question

I don't think readers who subscribe to a feed are getting updates from this new blogger address. Comment if you are. I'm still trying to work all this out in my spare time.

Latino While (Not) Breathing

Yes, another cartoon on Arizona's immigration law. I promise to touch on all the other stuff happening in the country next week.

I've seen and heard a lot of not-brown people defending the law. An interesting poll shows a majority of Americans believe the law will result in racial profiling and, oh yeah, they approve of it!

Today in Insane

Glenn Beck cannot be parodied:

Mother's Day? Started 1914. Woodrow Wilson. Hate that guy. Love my mom. Hate the holiday. Now, you could go to Hallmark because Hallmark and Woodrow Wilson would like you to do that. But there's something new from Vermont Teddy Bear.

War Is Boring

I received the edited manuscript for War Is Boring. A few small changes and it's off to the printer.

Also, David Axe redesigned his website www.warisboring.com which uses some of my art.

Godwin’s immigration law

I guess the right likes fascism on a state level.

Illustration Friday

A man has a ...problem.

Bootyquake

So an Iranian cleric says scantily-clad women cause Earthquakes. Makes sense, considering how Iran is one of the most earthquake-prone countries on earth and also one where women dress conservatively. Haha! Silly fundamentalist Muslim. Its not like inane, unscientific garbage like that is given equal weight in our media.

Kim Jong Il Comix

Here's the third installment of the strips I'm doing with Kyle Mizokami at warisboring.com

Bolg issues

Blogger is changing at the end of this month and I'm going to have to make a switch - probably to WordPress. Unfortunately I've had zero time to look into this and am not sure that I'll get around to it before the deadline. I'm going to try to keep there from being an interruption, but realistically it will probably happen as work has piled up considerably. As far as I know (which is not much) I'll be able to keep the same url for the blog, so stick around!

( . Y . ) <=3

The Supreme Court is making me nervous. Not only because it's stacked with four right-wing radicals, but nine people who seem a little out of touch with technology. DC Dicta's reporting on a sexting case last week got a lot of attention. All the justices seemed a bit befuddled.* Here's Scalia, unfamiliar with the technology presumably because it wasn't mentioned by name in the Constitution.

“Could Quon print these spicy little conversations and send them to his buddies?” Scalia asked.

Yes. Usually when I have a sexually explicit e-mail or text I want to share with my buddies, I print them out and mail them. Or, if I want to cut down on transmission time, simply fax them over.

*To be fair to Clarence Thomas, he never asks questions so no one really knows what he thinks. It would also be naive to assumed he doesn't know about the latest ways you can sexually harass people.

Wednesday: Shakin' Your Booty

Mailbag Douchebag - Armed and Dangerous Edition

Racists scored a huge victory today with Arizona's racist immigration law. A&D is a racist who isn't too into the comic I did on it this week.

Bors,

Who's side are you on? Make way you communist sympathizer, we are on the MARCH from SEA TO SHINING SEA! So quit your illegal alien sympathizing and shut the FUCK UP. Our revolution will be victorious, and we will reclaim the lands which are rightfully ours.

Step down pussy.

-Armed and Dangerous.

Oh, best part. Subject line: "Bors you Unamerican Piece of Shit." Thanks for writing Mr. Dangerous. Please don't shoot me in my unamerican pussy.