Oh boy, another “Facebook proves people don’t want privacy” bullshit argument.
Do people not understand what ‘privacy’ is? It’s an individual’s right to withhold information of their choosing from others. Just because people are tweeting about their lunch or telling anecdotes on Facebook doesn’t mean they’re giving up their right to privacy. It doesn’t mean they are suddenly sharing every last detail of their life.
How many people on Facebook are recounting every masturbation session, every time they drunk dial an ex, every sexist or mildly racist thought they have, or their entire browser history?
No matter how open an individual seems, it is a guarantee that there is something they are keeping from the public at large. Something they only share with their closest confidants, if at all.
And it is their choice what to share and what to keep private. It is only their choice. Regardless of how open they decide to be they never cede privacy completely.
Not the best analogy: saying “People are on Facebook, therefore they don’t care about privacy at all” is like saying “Her clothes are too revealing, therefore she doesn’t care if she gets molested.”
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I suppose I’m supposed to give Wise credit for trying to come up with something a bit more original than “Man telling IRS agent he’ll take the fifth on his audit.” (Yes, there’s been quite a few centered around that “clever” idea.)
But what the hell is this? Are they saying the IRS has its own TV network? And why the ellipses? “They’re really brazen over there (pause) at the IRS network.”
I hope this “BUTTZZ!” show gets picked up for a full season.
(And someone should point that dude’s chair at the TV.)
Old people read newspapers - check.
Woman vacuums - check.
Vacuum was designed and bought before the first moon landing - check.
TV is a cathode ray box on furniture legs - check.
Cartoonist wants a return to old ways of everything, your Jim Crow and coat hangerbortions included - check.
Actually I think that is a flatscreen, but the butt is coming out at a weird angle. And yeah, what’s with the vacuum?
I suppose I’m supposed to give Wise credit for trying to come up with something a bit more original than “Man telling IRS agent he’ll take the fifth on his audit.” (Yes, there’s been quite a few centered around that “clever” idea.)
But what the hell is this? Are they saying the IRS has its own TV network? And why the ellipses? “They’re really brazen over there (pause) at the IRS network.”
It’s impossible to say anything about this cartoon because I don’t know what the hell Wise is trying to say. National outrage over what? The bombings themselves? The fact that the two suspects were from Chechnya? CNN’s breaking news fail?
There’s no way to determine it from what we see here. An angry couple with sweaters reading ‘Boston’ and ‘Mass,’ one holding a sign that says ‘Where’s the’ and then, what is that, is someone off-panel shouting ‘National outrage’?
It’s been a while since I’ve referenced one of my favorite Onion articles, but damned if it isn’t appropriate here.
I don’t know how many times I’ve mentioned Terry Wise’s habit of showing his characters bent over at an odd angle, but I think his problem is getting worse. What is this? Who is she yelling at or what is she looking at that requires her to stand in that position?
I’ve always wondered why Wise does this, but now I’m wondering since when he started to. His earliest cartoons are from 2005, and while there’s the odd one where a character is leaning forward slightly, most of them show the people standing upright or leaning on a table, which doesn’t stand out as odd.
So I scanned through a number of them from 2007, then 2009, and again, most people are standing up straight or have some reason to lean over. Then 2010 and bam! Suddenly it’s either people standing up are leaning over or every other cartoon shows people sitting at a bar or table, which gives Wise an excuse for them to lean over.
I’m wondering… if I went through all his cartoons from 2010 to now, could I assemble a flipbook of people leaning forward more and more? And is this trend going to continue, with characters in his 2016 cartoons bent 90-degrees?
As for the content of this cartoon: bitch, please. What the hell is wrong with you that everything has to be seen through the prism of political tribalism? Healthy eating is suddenly a fight between freedom and tyranny?
There has to be a line, a point where we all agree that some things are not political. That some things don’t warrant a liberal/conservative divide because they are not inherently ideological. But we can’t. And then people unironically ask “Why can’t Congress just work together and fix things?”
Buh?
Is the joke “Watching Honey Boo Boo is punishment enough”? Then why the ‘Honey Poo Poo’ thing? Why get the name wrong?
And why make a cartoon about Honey Boo Boo now? Her cultural relevance has already peaked. Unless I missed some current story, this is also a case warranting the Gorrell Question.
Not much to say about this cartoon itself, just a vanilla “Abortion is equal to or worse than mass shootings” statement (with a half-assed slap related to the now struck-down soda ban). But I wanted to include this to a) point out again that Wise has such a weird habit of drawing people leaning over for no reason, and b) to see if anyone can answer this for me:
Why is there a group called ‘Friends of NRA’? I first heard about them a few months ago when I saw a billboard for some… I think it was a fundraiser dinner or something, and ever since I’ve wondered what need there is for a booster club for an organization like the NRA. Why not just join the NRA?
Also, shouldn’t it be ‘Friends of the NRA?’
Anybody have an answer to this?
How right-wing do you have to be to think that John McCain is a RINO?
