Monthly Archives: October 2008

Mark Fiore’s Subversive Cartoons

By James | Published: October 28, 2008
Mark Fiore is a political Flash cartoonist who cranks out a new short almost every week. He is clearly a liberal Democrat and his cartoons slant that way, but even when I find the ideas annoying or simplistic, or superficially critical, the cartoons are still funny. There are objectively funny moments (if such things can [...]
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LIVERMORE / Anti-nuke activists lose out on bid to run weapons lab

By SteveL | Published: October 26, 2008
A bid by Bay Area anti-nuclear weapons activists and the New College of California to take over Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been rejected by the U.S. nuclear weapons agency. Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) out of Livermore, New College in San Francisco and two allied groups filed the bid for the Livermore contract [...]
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Wassup 2008

By SteveL | Published: October 25, 2008
Funny, engaged in pop culture, arguably hard-hitting message… this is good.
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Laugh at a Campaign Pitch? Sure. Visit the Grandparents? Not So Much. – NYTimes.com

By SteveL | Published: October 23, 2008
MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go? This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with the [...]
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Larry Flynt Producing ‘Palin porno’ political parody

By James | Published: October 14, 2008
I think the key line here actually comes at the end. “Whatever you think of Larry Flynt, the man knows his First Amendment,” Kelly concluded. Seriously, that smut monger is a true champion of the First Ammendment, and we should all remember that the freedom of speech is the freedom to be offended. Now is [...]
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