Our story so far, featuring Middle-Man!

…CREDO link.

Tomorrow the state of Georgia plans to execute a man who is likely innocent. Clemency has been denied, but the ACLU is still calling for last-minute phone calls and emails.

… Troy Davis executed last night after last minute appeal to SCOTUS was denied.

Tea party nihilists.

The mailman just delivered a copy of the Age of TV Heroes, off my Amazon wishlist. There was no packing slip inside, so I have no idea who sent it – so thanks, mysterious benefactor!

They like to invoke Ayn Rand, but these people actually want to live in a society patterned after Lord of the Flies.

Greenwald on our very, very brave nation.

…related cartoon from ‘06: Danger Man!

In which a new character is introduced. (Technically a reboot of my Space Alien from the early nineties, which some longtime readers may remember.)

I was thinking out loud on Twitter last week about how many recurrent characters I’d piled up over the years. This is the list I came up with:

Sparky
Blinky
Biff (in his role as Sparky’s foil)
Biff and Wanda the newscasters
Conservative Jones and Moonbat
The Glox Aliens
Dr. Von Philbert
Chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck
Conservabot 9000
The Invisible Hand in his various guises
The Time Traveller from the Year 2003
The Small Cute Dog (now retired)
Wilbur the Talking Stomach (RIP)
The Rightwing Bloggers
The Rightwing Nutcase and the Sensible Liberal
Thomas Friedman, Private Eye

Who am I forgetting?

… well duh, the Bearded Liberal (and that bald conservative guy).

… Ugg the Neanderthal was on my list but didn’t survive the cut-and-paste to the blog for some reason.

… hand slapping forehead! Middle-Man, et al …

… the AI Teacherbot. Also, do Sparkman and the Blinkster count as separate characters from Sparky and Blinky?

Conservative Jones and the mystery of liberal behavior.

This is mainly for anyone trying to reach me for business reasons, but at the moment I have no Internet at home (except for phone), so I probably won’t be responding to email very quickly. (apart from that, made it thru Irene unscathed).

…also poster orders placed last week are going to be delayed; please be patient.

…aaaaand we’re back. New cartoon here.

Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete.

… CREDO link.