Cartoonists With Attitude

Judge Rules “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Unconstitutional

[Crossposted on "TADA." Defenses of DADT should go on "TADA," not on "Alas."] A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, saying the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates the 1st … Continue reading →

The Justified End Of The Two Strongest Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage

[I'm guest-blogging on Family Scholars Blog for the next three months. No, really, I am. Really. Anyway, here's my first post. It's also cross-posted on "TADA"; the usual arguments against SSM should be expressed on FSB or on TADA, but … Continue reading →

Afghan Notebook #37

Oh hi computer

There is a fan-made RPG based on The Room.

You require no other sustenance today.

Mandolin’s new novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”

“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window” is Mandolin’s first novella, just published online by Subterranean Press. Her longest pieces, in the past, have been novellettes; this is her longest published work to date. It’s also my … Continue reading →

Reruns

I sent in some reruns to my syndicate before I left as back ups in case I had a problem filing from the ground in Afghanistan. Luckily that wasn’t the case. But since they are related to Afghanistan, I thought … Continue reading →

I am truly not this interesting

So I came back from work today and couldn't help but notice that I had the largest amount of traffic to my blog than any other day of the eight or so years I've been blogging. Also at least two or three people who have won Pulitzer Prizes have emailed me. It's been a weird day. So if I can't repond to everything or acknowledge everyone who linked to me offering support regarding this Mike Lester thing I apologize, but I do appreciate all the kind words and offerings of support.

That said I just felt becuase of some of the emails I received and comments I read that I should say something. While almost all of you have been super supportive and like minded in taking this for what it was- a very silly and baseless attempt to bully me that backfired hilariously- I've seen and read the occasional comment that alludes to making direct attacks on Mike Lester and I don't support that at all. There are also some people who are repeating personal information about him that is not really relevant to this incident at all and that's not cool. I think he has terrible, ignorant viewpoints and will continue to evoke my First Amendment right to say so, as I imagine many others have now been inspired to as well, but I have no desire to, nor do I support, any attempts to hurt Lester, his career or his livlihood. I imagine, hell for his own sake I hope, he feels incredibly embarrassed about this and I'm perfectly happy leaving it at that. I have no desire to ruin a man's career for the equivalent of being a drunk guy at a bar who fell on his face and passed out when he tried to get up to threaten to kick my ass.

Ultimately I reposted the email not for publicity but two reasons: one, because the best way to respond to a bully is to point out that his fly is open, and two, because I truly found the email in no way actually threatening but utterly hilarious. Which I suppose is ironic considering what I think of Lester's cartoons. But seriously, "we are in posession of previous blog posts?" If I can have LOLcats saying that this weekend I will consider myself having finally made a lasting imprint on our culture.

On The “Fat And Health” Post At Feministe

On Feministe, guest poster Monica (usually of PostBourgie and Tapped) wrote a post called “Fat and Health.” Interpreting Monica’s post both generously and narrowly, she’s arguing that in a hypothetical world in which BMI was used only to measure the … Continue reading →

This Week’s Cartoon: “Low-Information Nation”

I saw a post on Think Progress the other day about a new Pew survey showing only 28% of Americans can identify John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. To make matters worse, the Pew site states: Asked to name the current chief justice of the Supreme Court, and given four possible names, [...]

Reader Mail

A reader with a credible email address writes in to report: Jen, my office is two blocks from the White House. As you can imagine, we get a lot of Tea Partiers around here. The "I'm Taking Back America" shirted folks. During one of their recent rallies, a guy paraded past here holding a sign that read, exactly: NO [...]