Our long-time pal Zen Comix needs a helping hand in a cartooning contest, so it is time to vote:
Voting is free and easy, and won’t take much time. Visit the page with my submission, “Truth or Consequences”. On the right side of the page is a red button that says “VOTE”. Click on it, and they will ask you sign up and log in with your email address. I’d really appreciate it if you’d vote for my cartoon and spread the word! Thanks!
UPDATES: Please Note–Only votes placed on the contest website will be counted (Facebook “likes” are not included). Voting is open until 3pm ET May 16.
From what I can understand, you can only vote once. So please vote, but only once.
Please join me in congratulations to TCR in stepping up and putting on a show. And if you happen to be in his ‘hood (Amherst, MA), stop by the local Chamber of Commerce and see what he’s been up to.
Way back when the internet was young, the A-list bloggers walked the earth by daylight… OK, maybe it was not as poetic as that, but Blogroll Amnesty Day did come about because of them: it seems that they declared amnesty for themselves and proceeded to prune everyone who was not also an A-List blogger off of their blogrolls.
We at Mock, Paper, Scissors believe in promoting the small blogs whenever we can (and this week, we are actively doing that at Crooks and Liars). It is really hard to choose just 5 blogs, (like asking a parent which kid is best) and especially this week while selecting blogs for the round-up. This does not mean that other blogs are lesser or better; truth be told all the blogs in the blogroll are really wonderful; each of them is a winner.
So here are five blogs from the blogroll that I have chosen at random that I hope everyone visits sometime this weekend:
From the Tip Jar this morning. The artist, Loren “is a passionate, curious Woodcutter/Writer living in Hollywood with a love for movies, music and old Los Angeles.”
Loren blogs at Woodcutting Fool. I believe that she sells prints, too, if you are so inclined.
We are pleased to report that one of our own has been promoted and awarded: Scissorhead Padre Mickey was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa.
The full write-up is at Pthe adre’s excellent blog, Padre Mickey’s Dance Party. Be sure to stop by and offer your congratulations!
If you have not caught this podcast, you should make an effort – Kevin Pollak interviews comics and actors and so on, but he has a set piece where he asks them to mimick Larry King, and the results are always very funny.
Dana Gould is his guest in this clip, whom local SF-based Scissorheads may remember from his stand-up act in the ’80s and ’90s; he is currently a writer for The Simpsons. Anyway, he takes it about as far as it can go.
(Hat tip: Scissorhead Moeman for turning me on to this. Just unbelievably funny stuff from comics at the top of their form.)
I mean, it is not much of a leap to think that Willard would intentionally lie about his taxes to the press; he lies about everything to everyone; he lies extravagantly and reflexively but he lies especially to the press who just sort of lap it up like kitties and the spilled milk. I’ve long said that Chuck Todd is little more than an aggregator of Republican Talking Points that he then spits back as Villager Wisdom. I think I could probably write an algorithm that could replace Chuck Todd and save NBC some serious cash. He’s a hack’s hack.
Not having cable and basically not watching teevee for some number of years means that I generally only see Rachel Maddow when people recommend something especially, so I absolutely have a strange perception of her being excellent: I never get to see anything other than a Best Of… this is surely a best-of.
Regular readers know that I am not a fan of the Great Orange Satan (Kos. Well, Boehner too, but today we are talking about Kos), but sometimes the Kossacks really do a good job, this post is one of them. I’ve rarely seen anyone back up opinion with documented examples like this.
The essential reading blog Welcome Back to Potterville is having a fourth year anniversary today. Stop by and say hello to Jurassic Pork and throw some money in the tip jar. He delivers fresh snark daily, and some of the crispest analysis on the innertubes.
Periodically Wingnuttia screams something about liberal bias in the media and then they start their own journalism project, you know, to show them! For every Wikipedia, there is Conservapedia, HuffPo gave birth to The Daily Caller, etc. The problem of course is that whole truthiness thing puts a kabosh on it being real journalism.
Anyway, they’ve done it again, and something called Washington Free Beacon (and my mouth started watering at the idea of free bacon, so color me sad that it is neither bacon nor free) was born to reform journalism.
Well, I’ll leave the American Prospect to tell you the rest (it’s a short piece and worth the click), but here is the take-away sentence:
“This is the Breitbartization of journalism, in which the only goal is to embarrass liberals, because, you know, screw you, hippie.”
It’s like American Prospect has been reading Driftglass.
All good Scissorheads probably already listen to The Professional Left Podcast, which stars our pals Blue Gal and her husband Driftglass. But if you don’t, you should.
I’m highlighting it because there is a segment in the program wherein Drifty talks about why manufacturing is important segment of the economy that we cannot afford to lose. I think that this is so well stated, and so clearly essential to us all–even those of us who don’t work in this sector–that we need to think about the implications.
So pull up a chair, make a nice warm cup of whatever, and listen to two smart people talk about issues that are important to us all. You’ll be glad you did.
Fair warning: this is not the kind of show that you want to play around, um, people who don’t like cussing. Also, because it is so engaging, you will probably not be able to multi-task. So sit back and enjoy.
(I was away teaching a class this morning, and have beaucoup to do this afternoon; I’ll be back later on. My regrets for the neglect. — TG)
I know we’ve done this before, and yes I know we are near Tax Day, and chances are good until the economic devastation ends that we will go at it again, and if not for Jurassic Pork then for another fine writer. And in my opinion there are few writers on the web that are as good as JP.
Anyway, the problems have compounded for JP and he’s again up against a wall. If we can help we should.
If you can spare a few bucks (or more), consider a donation to JP. It’s money will spent; his writing speaks for itself; he has a clarity of mind that few others have.
Do it to spite Arianna, or as we say around The Hut: “Pay the writer.”
As all good Scissorheads know, I have deep respect for writers. I admire people who write long-format essays, and above all else I admire writers who have a unique voice. One of the best writers on the web, Jurassic Pork, needs our help.
The misery that is the Great Recession has taken its toll on JP, and again he finds himself on the verge of becoming homeless and living in his car. Please note that as with many of us, this happened through no fault of his own.
If you are in the midwest and still working, and if you are so inclined, can you please check your companies’ internal sites and see if there are any job listings and get in touch with JP? He is ready, willing, and able to work. All he needs is a break to come his way.
I know we’ve done this before, and chances are good until the economic devastation ends that we will go it again, and if not for JP for another fine writer. If you can spare a few bucks, consider a donation to JP. It’s money will spent; his writing speaks for itself; he has a clarity of mind that few others have. Do it to spite Arianna, or as we say around The Hut: “Pay the writer.”
Our good friend BlueGal has written a blog post called Welcome to the Culture Wars that quite seriously is one of the best essays of her long and storied career on the web.
Drifty rips Bobo a new hole for his latest column, in which he offeres timid support for Newticles. As you may recall, earlier in the summer Brooks said:
“I wouldn’t let [Newt Gingrich] run a, you know, 7-Eleven, let alone a country”.
Drifty wrote a beautiful take-down using that mendacious turd’s own words against himself. Go read it.
Our cub reporter Cassie has a terrific post up at her college blog Cassie @ College – get it while it’s hot off the WordPresses.
Cassie continues her advocacy for youth, and this post is an eye-opener, not only because of the news story that Cassie reports, but because of the personal story she tells. Cassie is turning into a great writer and an excellent blogger.
I know we are all so proud of her. We can say we knew here when. Anyway, leave a comment so she knows you were there.
Seven years ago today, the blog-o-sphere changed when our very good friend and ally Blue Gal started her blog. BG says that it was the absolutely depressing election of 2004 that drove her to do it, so ironically we have something to be grateful to Chimpy for doing.
Anyway, it is not an exaggeration to say that Mock, Paper, Scissors would be an entirely different blog if not for Blue Gal, who is a fairy godmother of sorts to small bloggers everywhere.
It’s a well-known fact that David Brooks is a lazy writer with a large platform and a small mind, and he makes me crazy. Anyway, our good friend Driftglass has the penultimate David Brooks Post up at his place.
My real-life buddy Dr. Zaius has had a bad month – hospitals and surgery and lots and lots of antibiotics. And there might have been blood, and the moons of Endor is involved and everything.
If you have a chance, swing by Zaius Nation and wish him well. He’s one of the the most funny (and kind) Apes-from-the-future/bloggers I’ve ever met.
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