The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Damien Neil:

TNH (219), I assure you that I read the comment that I replied to.

The fact that George Bush is quite possibly the worst president this country has ever had has not the slightest bearing on whether the best choice for the California State Board of Equalization (District 1) was Betty Yee, David Neighbors, Kennita Watson, or David Campbell. To blindly vote a straight party line is to say that it does.

To insist that I vote a straight party line is to insist that the single most important consideration in every elected office--regardless of how little connection that office has to national politics--is the candidate's tribe. I reject that view.

I am not suggesting that you should vote the straight Democratic ticket even if you have to hold your nose. I am insisting that you should vote that straight ticket even if you have to wear a fsking gas mask.

I reject your insistence. Blind tribalism has no place in rational behavior.

I know Republicans who don't stand for torture, for corruption, for cronyism, and so on and so forth. I know Democrats who do.

Yes, the Republican party leadership is evil. So is the current leadership of the United States of America. Is a vote for an American a vote for torture?

Go out and vote today. Vote with your mind, not with the casual moral laziness of the unthinking party ticket. And avoid the easy trap of blind vilification, because every citizen of this country lives today in a house of glass. I'll no more condemn an honorable Republican for striving to reform his party than I'll condemn myself for failing to flee to Canada.

Damnation.

I never met him, but the sun will rise a little paler come tomorrow.

The Dilbert with the PowerPoint and the trolls does have more context in the preceding strips: Dilbert arrives with a far more substantial and technical presentation, but is told that he has no more than five minutes to make his point to the CEO. (The CEO checks his watch.) Four and a half minutes.

With the context, it's a comment on clueless leadership too "busy" to make informed judgements, and the frustrated reactions of underlings. Which is a situation that I've seen occur in the real workplace, in almost exactly that fashion.

Oh, the MDF[1] isn't targeting probes any more. The Martians infiltrated one of their agents into THEMIS a few years ago, and he's been photoshopping out the cities, pyramids, and such. Much more civilized than the old approach, and nowhere so much of a strain on the budget.

[1] Actually, the MADF ("Martian Air Defense Force"): "Not much air, but a whole lot of defense!"

Man, I miss snow.

My objection to "The Da Vinci Code" can be summed up in two words: Renowned curator.

Renowned curator.

Renowned curator.

It's like one of those horrible, horrible movies that they show on the Sci-Fi channel that you run across by accident and can't quite stop watching.

Renowned curator.

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