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BAD FETUSES!

Blood Sacrifice

In today's New York Times, the great sage Paul Krugman neatly outlines Hollingsworth Hound's complicated relationship with the Deficit Hawk:

"Notice, in particular, how suddenly Republicans lost interest in the budget deficit when they were challenged about the cost of retaining tax cuts for the wealthy. But that won’t stop them from continuing to pose as deficit hawks whenever anyone proposes doing something to help the unemployed."

He also writes about the economic sacrifices demanded in the name of invisible "bond gods" that reminded me of this Tom the Dancing Bug from a couple of years ago.  Of course, he's talking about very specific "gods," the gods of budget deficit control that must be appeased to avoid a phantom borrowing crisis. I was referring to the general way we view the economic crisis compared to the way the Mayans reacted to the crises that eventually toppled their civilization.  But the last panel in the strip makes for a nice illustration to his piece.

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Lucky Ducky, in "Deficit Hawk Down"

Afghan Trek

UPDATE:  EASY LINKS

CARTOONISTS ACROSS AFGHANISTAN

-->  TED RALL'S DAILY COMICS

-->  MATT BORS'S BLOG POSTINGS

-->  STEVEN CLOUD'S PHOTOS

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Cartoonists Ted Rall, Matt Bors and Steven Cloud are currently in Afghanistan, on their own (i.e, un-embedded), trekking across the northern and western parts of the country.  Ted's a good friend (I just about begged him NOT to go), and I know Matt well as a great guy and a great cartoonist.

This is an amazing adventure, and you can follow their progress every day through Ted's DAILY comics (I hope he can keep this up)...

Matt's sketchbook drawings on his blog...

and Steven's photos (if he's posting sketches or comics, I haven't found them).  Here is Matt and Ted TODAY drawing for some Afghan kids.  I hope they like alternative, highly stylized, politically trenchant comics!

On twitter, you can follow Ted at tedrall, Matt at mattbors, and Steven at boasas

Nearing a milestone number of followers on twitter!

Who will be the lucky 100,000th follower?

More of same

Ross Douthat's column in the New York Times today defending those who oppose the building of a Muslim cultural center in downtown Manhattan is EXACTLY the same as his column last week against the legalization of gay marriage:

Yes, yes. I'm a smart, enlightened conservative, and I agree you liberals make some excellent points.  But you've got to realize that heterosexual marriage (last week) and white xenophobic discrimination (this week) are American institutions that are so ineffably awesome and special that you're just gonna have to go along with us conservatives on this.

Attention newspaper editors

For your consideration in replacing the retiring Cathy comic strip:  Zarky!

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