Props to Marshall Ramsey: Obama’s wearing the costume Lysacek took gold in, but of course Evan didn’t have to dead-lift all that Republican waste weight.
(I would link directly to Lysacek’s winning video, but bloody Microsoft Silverlight won’t load for me on Firefox or IE.)
SiubhanDuinne
I am in awe of really good editorial cartoonists. It goes without saying that they can draw, and are able to capture the essence of a huge number of well-known people often in just a few idiosyncratic pen strokes. But the best of them can tell a complex story or seize a fleeting moment of the Zeitgeist by combining two or three seemingly unrelated threads: the Olympics, HCR, and Republican intransigence, as in this example, being a case in point.
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne: My all time favorite from our home town guy: http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58302
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: I remember that! Thanks for the reminder. Luckovich is a treasure, isn’t he?
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh yes! One of the few well-known Georgians I don’t have to be embarassed by! :)
Another classic: http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/opinion/luckovichobamaelex/
Hey Anne Laurie, thanks for the open thread! Seems a bit sedate around here tonight!
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: Well, John’s completely shitfaced a couple of threads up. That’s fairly entertaining.
burnspbesq
@SIA:
Luckovich is great. But you have to answer for Mark Bradley.
tootiredoftheright
You guys really need to examine http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/deep-hurting-cartoons.php
and http://thisishistorictimes.com/
Better then 99% of the current political cartoonists out there.
Two of the most recent topical ones.
http://thisishistorictimes.com/2010/02/a-world-without-teleprompters/
http://thisishistorictimes.com/2010/02/bus-route-of-tears/
tootiredoftheright
http://thisishistorictimes.com/2010/02/bus-route-of-tears/comment-page-1/#comment-8702
http://thisishistorictimes.com/2010/02/a-world-without-teleprompters/
Susan Kitchens
Just watched the Keith O special comment. I think I watched his first, 2nd, 3rd special comments… and then when he got into the style of self parody, sir… where everything, sir, became so over the top, I said eh and skipped them.
But tonight’s is one for the ages. Truly.
Keith’s dad’s in the hospital. There’s a lotta medical detail in there. A little eye-glazing if you haven’t done bedside vigil like that yourself.
But it’s a perfect commentary on the alleged thing called (by some) a Death Panel. Beautifully done.
And I 150% agree with it, because we had (thank God) guidance from my Dad about his wishes for medical care. It didn’t make it easy, but it made a hard time less hard. There’s too much 2nd guessing anyhow, without having tons more guessing to do.
Thanks to that conversation about end of life, my Dad’s end of life last October was good. Was peaceful. We all (7 of us) got to be there when it came to to make the final “what next” decision. And after all that, he died at home.