"Let me tell you about the very
rich" he wrote. "They are different from you and me."
(The shorter version that everyone remembers is what Hemingway said
Fitzgerald said.)
How
different are they, you ask? They're Tom Perkins-different. They
imagine that their current unpopularity among the rabble is the moral
and political equivalent of . . . well, if you don't already know,
you'll see it featured several times below.
Other
people feeling that life is treating them harshly include
Congressional Republicans, who – after proudly making sure the
legislative branch of our federal government will block every single
thing that the White House wants until a Republican is back in the
Oval Office – complain that Obama issuing fewer executive orders
than pretty much any president since WWII is (also) the moral and political equivalent of Nazism. And there's that, uhm, made Congressman from
New York who felt that being asked about his finances by a
reporter was a valid Stand Your
Ground case – no duty to retreat there. The reporter is lucky he
wasn't wearing a hoodie.
But at
least today's not
the worst day to be a groundhog. Although I wouldn't want to be
in the amateur weather prediction business this winter.
And
while I really don't have a dog in this afternoon's fight, most of my
local friends want Seattle, and I have to live with them. No hard feelings to the Bronco fans out
there.
Today's toons were selected by seeing
which of our favorite artists saw their shadow this morning, from the
week's offerings at McClatchy
DC, Cartoon Movement,
Go Comics, Politico's
Cartoon Gallery, Daryl
Cagle's Political Cartoons, About.com,
and other fine sources of toony goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Jack
Ohman, Stuart
Carlson, Rick
McKee, Nick
Anderson, Jeff
Danziger, Jeff
Stahler, Drew
Sheneman, Signe
Wilkinson, Rob
Rogers, Ben
Sargent, Pat
Bagley, R.
J. Matson, Mike
Keefe, Matt
Wuerker, Jen
Sorenson, and Monte Wolverton.
p3 Best of Show: Pat
Oliphant.
p3 Legion of Merit: Steve
Breen.
p3 Certificate of Humanitarian
Achievement: Joe
Heller.
p3 World Toon Review: Tom
Scott (New Zealand), Ingrid
Rice (Canada), and Petar
Pismestrovic (Austria).
Ann Telnaes witnesses the
long – and pointless – march.
Mark Fiore welcomes the Gilded
Age Internet.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation
pays indirect tribute to Firesign Theatre: There's barbecue all
over the road in southern California
Tom Tomorrow sez: Lucky
it wasn't terrorists!
Keith Knight pays tribute to Wee
Pals creator Morrie
Turner.
Tom the Dancing Bug presents
Lucky
Ducky and Hollingsworth Hound in a not-terrifying and un-ghastly
story of complete absence of danger to the 1% of the 1%. Brace
yourselves for nothing really bad happening! (Readers who may have lost track of the secret origins of
Lucky Ducky are invited here.)
Red Meat's Mister Wally has . .
. afterthoughts.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon asks:
Just how much a part of your
family is your cat?
I've been looking for "Lights
Fantastic," directed
in 1942 by Fritz Freleng, online for ages, and I finally found it on a
Romanian site. (Unfortunately, the YouTube/Google/TimeWarner combine
has made it pretty much impossible to embed it here, so you're going
to have to follow a link this morning. Sorry.) It's a delightful
piece of fluff containing so many pop culture and advertising
references of the moment that it may be nearly untranslatable today
(imagine Planter's Peanuts commanding the key spot at Times Square!).
Uncredited voice work by Portland's own Mel Blanc, and musical
direction by Carl Stalling, who lifts from "Lullabye of
Broadway," "My Wild Irish Rose," and "Laugh,
Clown, Laugh," among others. Sight gags and puns include
references to the Cotton Club, Four Roses bourbon, the American
Tobacco Company, Chase and Sanborn Coffee, Carnation Condensed Milk,
and Dutch Maid Cleaner. Casual use of racial and ethnic stereotypes;
consider yourself warned. Click here to watch (be ready -- it autoplays).
The p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along:
A Sunday-morning ritual here at p3 international headquarters
has long been reading the Sunday Oregonian's comic section
over breakfast in our lavish corporate dining hall. Alas, the
ever-diminishing four-issues-delivered-each-week newspaper is set
to go full-Monte tabloid by spring. Since the strategy involves
routing former hard-copy readers to their iffy website (or, in those
cases when Doonesbury
gets too true for comfort, to the original online source of the
"content provider"), we thought it might be helpful to get
ahead of the curve by sharing the links to our favorite Sunday comics
– and here's the important part: they're listed here in the
exact order we always, always follow in reading them. So fix
yourself the breakfast or brunch of your choice and join in: Pearls
Before Swine, Doonesbury,
Rhymes with Orange, Zits,
Adam @ Home, Mutts,
Over the
Hedge, Get
Fuzzy, Prince
Valiant, Blondie,
Bizarro, Mother
Goose & Grimm, Rose
is Rose, Luann,
Hagar
the Horrible, Pickles,
Rubes, Grand
Avenue, and Freshly
Squeezed.
Yes, Prince Valiant. Bite me.
The Big, But Could Be Bigger, And We're Still Working On It, Oregon
Toon Block:
Matt Bors is too polite to come
right out and say that Tom
Perkins is an unbelievably foolish person.
Jesse Springer wonders: Can the Oregon Legislature hit
the broad side of a barn?
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
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