The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Dave Lartigue:

There are two things I can think of that will prevent this from being terribly effective, unfortunately:

1) Supporting your stance by essentially quoting yourself (emails from "The White House" citing facts from whitehouse.gov) isn't going to convince anyone who is already suspect of "either" source.

2) Nothing that the anti-health-reform OMG SOCIALISM folks have shown indicates that they're interested in facts from ANY source. They are only interested in whatever wild-assed blathering supports their own paranoid, ignorant, and, yes, racist worldview.

Stuff Geeks Like: Zombies

Why am I reading all this on a blog and not in the supposedly liberal media? Oh, that's right. It's because the people who have whined and complained about "Political Correctness" are now very concerned with how "lipstick on a pig" may hurt women's feelings. And because the media is only interested in a good show, not in any kind of actual dissemination of important information.

Thanks again, Making Light, for bringing something important to everyone's attention.

I don't think Palin is a gesture to the unhappy Hillary Clinton supporters. I think she's a gesture to the unhappy Harriet Miers supporters.

I realize that religious tests are unconstitutional, but I would be willing to have one anyway: if you truly believe in the "Antichrist", you don't get to vote.

To show it's not strictly aimed at disenfranchising Christians, I would also add the Tooth Fairy and Alien Reptile Tony Blair to the list of things you won't be allowed to believe in and also vote, even though I'm willing to look at the evidence for the latter.

What color is an echidna?

You can almost hear them all snickering.

So the Republicans are going to run on a "reform" platform...as the incumbents?

Wow. The law is just a big f*cking joke to these people, isn't it?

Guys, you're only allowed to say nice, respectful things about the deceased. That's why when Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton die, there will be no harsh words spoken, merely gentle reminiscing about what honored statesmen they were.

The only thing I dislike more than superhero comments is the phrase "underwear perverts". Like many things geeks find amusing, it ceased to be so somewhere within the first 8,000 times it was used.

And for the helpful portion, I'll add/second these:

Anything by Kevin Huizenga, but 'Curses' is a good place to start.

Scott Pilgrim.

The two Love and Rockets collections. I personally prefer 'Palomar' but Locas' is good as well.

"Dragon's Head" is manga. If you like "Lost", you should check it out.

"Planetes" is EXCELLENT science fiction Manga. I loved it despite not being much of a manga fan.

'Bone' by Jeff Smith is one that often makes these lists, but I've really cooled on it. It's very charming at first but pretty soon devolves into a pretty by-the-numbers fantasy story.

'Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man' by John Porcellino is a collection of themed strips. I like it a little better than his 'King-Cat Classix' but that one is still pretty good as well.

'Exit Wounds' by Rutu Modan is going to make it onto a LOT of "Best of" lists this year.

'Box Office Poison' and 'Tricked' by Alex Robinson are worth a read.

I highly recommend the journalistic books of Joe Sacco.

Check out the offerings from the company "First Second". Nearly everything they've done is stellar.

Remember, folks, comics are a medium, not a genre. Within that medium are books that appeal to fans of different genres (some more than others). I'm not a fan of murder mystery novels, but I don't dismiss all other novels because of it.

This one's tougher, though:

http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpress/?p=2020

f I may include:

The Shadow Over Who-Ville

I guess I'm just imagining all those books for sale by Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the Swift Boat Veterans, etc.

Guy Montag was a Replicant.

Hi I invented a new literary genre.

See it here!

http://slithytoves.sytes.net/~dave/wordpress/?p=1707

I demand this speeding ticket be dismissed. I'm too busy to be distracted by this.

This incident was mentioned in the "Off Topic" forums at a site I frequent. Many of the people there responded how the student had it coming by acting like a spoiled child who was provoking the officers, who deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Every time I wonder how America got the way it is I am reminded by the number of people who want it this way.

I have a request from all the good people here at Making Light. Elsewhere I was lamenting this decision and was met with the usual right wingers saying that this was hogwash, we weren't doing anything worse than making prisoners slightly uncomfortable, that Abu Ghraib was simply a few bad apples who have been removed and punished, and that our prisoners are all enemy combatants and not just hapless schmoes picked up and thrown into Gitmo.

Now, I know this is all not true, but I know this because of a great many things I've read over a long period of time.

Is there a sort of one-stop-shop for, say, the Torture Truth? Some place or a few select places with clear documentation that can be forwarded to such people? I realize arguing with many of them is a lost cause, but one or two people has said, "If you have supportive evidence to the contrary, I would like to see it." I'm sure someone has been collecting all of this someplace, just not sure who or where.

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