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Apologies

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

For the lack of posting today — I’m swamped.

But here’s a teaser of a coming attraction:

Last Friday I attended infiltrated a conservative ladies’ luncheon featuring Ann Coulter as guest speaker. High comedy. I have ten pages worth of notes.

It looks like the post below is generating some fun discussion. For more, hop on over to Hit & Run, where I am in turn flatteringly praised and mercilessly ridiculed.

One thing, I “Fisked” this cartoon for the sole reason that Joanne McNeil sent it to me via email yesterday, and I found it preposterous. That it was published in 2000 makes it no less stupid, unless Tom Tomorrow has since become a benefactor for the Cato Institute or the Reason Foundation, which I’m fairly sure is not the case.

If the fact that it was published three years ago makes you angry at me for dissecting it, well, shucks, I guess I’ll just have to deal with the fact that you’re mad at me. No sex for me tonight, eh?

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5 Responses to “Apologies”

  1. #1 |  Jim M |  July 29th, 2003 at 7:25 pm

    “No sex for me tonight, eh?”

    Well, to be perfectly honest, it was never in the cards. At least as far as I was concerned.

  2. #2 |  joanne |  July 29th, 2003 at 9:20 pm

    And I sent the cartoon along because Tom Tomorrow (or his imposter) thought it was relevant enough to post on the DC IMC newswire this week:

    http://www.dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=78267&group=webcast

  3. #3 |  Larry Talbot |  July 29th, 2003 at 9:46 pm

    Radley,

    Was that the Coulter presentation that was on C-SPAN2 over the weekend? It was a kick in the pants. Are you going to give us your notes?

    Larry

  4. #4 |  Joe Sims |  July 30th, 2003 at 10:25 am

    I find it hard to believe that the same folks who can spend three years picking through the results of the 2000 Presidential elections can get worked up into a lather about your first impressions of an obscure and humorless stip put out by that hack Tom Tomorrow. At least I assume they are the same people, by their knee-jerk defense of his worn-out stereotypes of supposed libertarian thinking. “Ziggy” is more insightful and better drawn than 95% of the poison that drips from Tom Tomorrow’s pen.

  5. #5 |  James N. Markels |  July 30th, 2003 at 10:58 am

    Er, not mad, just wondering why you’re wasting your time with a cartoon that’s already been long forgotten, even by the far-left nutjobs that actually agreed with it when it first came out. Why not fisk Herblock (the late editorial cartoonist from the Washington Post), then? I thought the point of blogs was to be bleedingly current and forward-looking. But hey, maybe there’s a place for it. Sullivan can fisk today’s NYT, and you can fisk three year-old Tom Tomorrow cartoons. Everything gets covered.