ETA: Alternate source for when duder’s domain expires gets raided by the fuzz!
This is a photographic reminder for you to perform a chore you have most likely neglected for far too long.
(I didn’t think to take the picture until after removing a lot of the mess from the interior, btw.)
Normally I couldn’t give two shits about political cartoons not drawn by Tim Kreider, but this one isn’t a miserably-failed attempt at humorousness.
:’((
We could have paid off all the subprime mortgages in this country for $1.4 trillion. Thanks, Nomi Prins.
WOW. I wish I’d gotten to see this trainwreck live…
So like a lot of people, I heard about the new Mickey Mouse game. I saw some of the concept art and heard that Mickey was going back to his more mischevious days and that you were gonna get to manipulate your surroundings with a paintbrush, and got hype.
Man, was I mistaken.
Turns out this game is all about ‘TUDE (check out those scowls!) and “moral choices”.
…I don’t think I’ll ever get over this “morality” thing, having watched cartoons before political correctness hit. I remember when Daffy Duck could blow himself and The Little Man From The Draft Board to hell, literally—and rather than po-faced navelgazing about “how our choices have consequences for those around us”, people just laughed.
Y’know, like they were supposed to.
Warren Spector may be a Disney aficionado—but like every other suit working for the company, he doesn’t actually understand what made the old cartoons appealing. Gross cash-in that Kingdom Hearts may be, they at least kept the Disney characters sorta intact. Even Goofy and Donald (in the role of the hero’s sidekicks) didn’t end up that warped, come to think of it.
This? This sounds like LOONATICZ all over again.
(FFFFFF just the few glances I got of the Loonatics wikipedia page while I was figuring out what to link to made me want to puke. Slam Tasmanian? Electro J. Fudd? Ophiuchus Sam? Are you motherfucking kidding me?!)
The problem with arguing that the government shouldn’t “mandate” charity is the huge gap between the amount of money that people are willing to give and the amount that shelters, hospitals, et cetera actually need. Anyone who falls into this gap receives inadequate care or no care at all.
And while any gift at all is generous and kind—unless you are a trust fund philanthropist handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars? It is a drop in the bucket.
The reality is that the haves do not care enough about the have-nots in this country to fix this with voluntary donations. This weekend, hundreds of people (one of them yours truly, with any luck) will buy a $300 video game console so they can get a $50 rebate. Ignacio Godinez Lopez is probably going to look for a new place for his wife to get the dialysis treatments he can’t afford.1
Feeling what my fiancé likes to call “white liberal guilt”2 about this fact is pointless. The onus to fix this should not be placed on the individual. Martyrdom is a deeply unhealthy mindset, psychologically speaking. Moreover, a tiny set of people inflicting undue suffering upon themselves will not solve a problem that stretches nationwide.
In a sane world, perhaps fewer people would be able to afford that LCD TV, or a computer powerful enough to stream YouTube in HD. But Mr. Lopez would be able to spend a few more years with his wife.
The similarities to a Ponzi scheme are not coincidental. But there is a difference here. The top of this food chain is comprised of a huge network of people and organizations who provide a service to society—hospitals, doctors, caretakers and shelters.
Which is better for our nation: $2.6 million dollars in a hospital’s hands, or $2.6 million in jewelry on Ruth Madoff’s hands?
