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Jul 8 2008 — 2:00am
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swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 10:24 am →
Some people seem to expend a large amount of energy and emotion on her writing, most of it follows a similar theme. If a large group of people spen...
The only way to deal with KK (what's her middle initial, by the way?) Is to briefly skim her column to get the gist then recycle the paper and not ...
Richard
Nov 21 2009 - 9:50 am →
Now you're just picking on white people. We steal from disability. Wear baseball caps when we travel overseas. What else?
Here's another winner, Rat. Guess it takes all kinds to commit fraud, swandog. Disability funding comes out of your paycheck, too. I think his name...
noodleman
Nov 21 2009 - 3:03 am →
This story is not helping me overcome my fear of riding the bus. Since I don't drink, I can't make it more interesting that way. I guess I could ...
Re: Churches and Somalis I blame those damn Irish for dragging my ass here. I would incite a riot of my peeps, but since there's approximately 1...
Depends on who's doin' the preachin', I suppose.
noodleman
Nov 20 2009 - 10:22 pm →
Wait, it's not a sham?
aliecat
Nov 20 2009 - 10:11 pm →
@kc!: Marx was more sympathetic of religion's purpose than he was completely dismissive. A more complete quotation of his famous phrase would inclu...
noodleman
Nov 20 2009 - 9:39 pm →
5 Reader Comments
9:29 am
I am sure it will turn out Batman is somehow connected to the water purity story.
9:41 am
I believe Batman may have helped prevent the recent ethanol spill in Lanesboro from getting in the scenic Root River.
Batman is everywhere.
12:34 pm
Re:MnDaily
Who knew comics were trying to tear apart the fabric of civilization?
12:46 pm
Who knew comics were trying to tear apart the fabric of civilization?
That’s what made reading MAD magazine so subversive back in the day. It had a direct link (via William Gaines) to the EC Comics backlash that had resulted in the creation of the Comics Code Authority.
The CCA, of course, saved the world from all of the juvenile delinquency, war, corruption, hunger, bigotry and religious persecution that resulted from America’s youth being poisoned and brainwashed by the horrors published by EC Comics. We burned those poisoned pages and, instead, spent our nickels and dimes on Archie, Donald Duck, and Classics Illustrated — all of which resulted in no truancy from school, perfect 4.0 GPAs, world peace, happy dreams, and the Utopia we enjoy today.
Or, uh, am I missing something?
12:52 pm
High culture did kinda thrive for like three or four years there, but then they published the Classics Illustrated, and it was back to misogyny, racism, violence and crypto-facism for the standard bearers of low culture.
Whenever I think of the pre-code comics, I think of William Marston. Weirdo or man ahead of his time…