by Smitty
| Loved the punchline. Click the image for the whole strip. It brought to mind another punk besides Kimberlin, albeit a punk rocker, Jello Biafra: |  |
Category: Day By Day
Shout Out To Muir @daybydaycartoon
by Smitty
Boss, you rawk! Click image for the full ‘toon:
The World’s Youngest Blogger Nearly Makes ‘Day By Day’
by Smitty
Got an email from Muir the other day. Having supported Day By Day, it was time to suggest a strip theme involving Skye. So I suggested that Chris do something with this photo, and it provides the background for the first panel, where Kiko breaks a plate. Click the image to view the whole strip.
Interacting with artists is a blast, and one of the great things about being involved in blogging, as when I collaborated with Cassone. OK, I paid him, but still. The way you have a cool idea, cast the bread on the water, and it comes back ten times cooler than the original is endlessly fascinating.
Right on time, Cassone delivers a fantastic Breitbart tribute video:
‘Win Just One For The Zimmer’
by Smitty
I can’t embed the latest Day by Day effectively, but Muir does a great job of alluding to Airplane! Well worth your time.
Here is the reference:
A Net-Based Sarah Palin Write-In?
by Smitty
Muir at Day by Day is provocative, but I find the idea fraught with peril. Just as Congress doesn’t call a vote without a fairly deterministic outcome, the likelihood of a Sarah Palin write-in going pear shaped and resulting in Obama II: What Haven’t I Fracked Yet? is far too high for comfort.
In my perfect world, a viable conservative candidate, e.g. Santorum, would bring her on as a VP, both to harness the energy she brings, and to line her up for POTUS in 2020. Because 16 years of continuous fiscal sanity would be a fantastic start toward restoring liberty to its rightful place in this country.
Update: linked at Katypundit.
Day By Day Speaks Truth To Overlords
by Smitty
An excellent play by Muir. This prompts me to drop in a bit of Chickenfoot:
Who Said It? July 14: ‘I No Longer See a Path to Victory for Herman Cain’
“Herman Cain has bottomed out, but still can’t find momentum to get in the air again. …
“If Cain cannot do well in Iowa, he is finished. And with six months to go, Iowa caucus goers are referring to him as a ‘supernova;’ i.e. a great flash of brightness soon to go dark. There are only around 125,000 caucus goers in Iowa. And many of those who were going to go with Cain are now going to Bachmann or waiting for someone else. He’s losing staff in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“I no longer see a path to victory for Herman Cain.”
I’d never seen that quote before, but it’s featured in today’s “Day by Day” cartoon:
Click the picture to see the whole strip. Just in case you were wondering what I was up to at that time: On July 17, I covered a Herman Cain fundraising event in Bethesda, Maryland — and drank Flying Dog ale with Cain’s campaign manager, Mark Block:
Flying Dog Ale: Secret of My Success!
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught
“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”
— George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”
“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)
“In my experience, it’s very difficult to discuss an issue with someone who has their mind already made up.”
— Anna Tarkov, “Got raped? It’s your own fault, you filthy whore.”
Some prejudices are the result of ignorance. Others are the result of what can only be described as indoctrination. And in a politically correct age, the rigid mental categories involved in feminism are an expression of such a prejudice. Once these categories become fixed in the mind, every phenomenon must be interpreted within that rigid framework.
Education properly ought to teach a respect for facts — facts are stubborn things, as John Adams observed — and a respect for facts ought to make us skeptical of mere theory. Skepticism will increase, the more we observe facts that don’t fit the categories involved in the theoretical abstractions promulgated by the intelligentsia. Sooner or later, the accumulation of contradictory facts must convince a reasonable person that the theory they have been “carefullly taught” is false.
“As for RSM, I respectfully disagree. He is a misogynist through and through. Misogyny, as you’re probably familiar, is a cultural hatred of women simply because they are female. It can be manifested in many different ways from off-color jokes to pornography to believing women should feel ashamed of their bodies. A misogynist might still have functional friendships with women or be married or have daughters. It doesn’t change the fact that he hates women.”
— Anna Tarkov, “Got raped? It’s your own fault, you filthy whore.”
That’s two panels from today’s “Day by Day” comic strip by Chris Muir and, by all means, read the whole thing.
UPDATE: In the comments, Sissy Willis quotes Thomas Sowell on the 2006 resignation of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard University:
“Even if every conclusion with which students are indoctrinated were true, unless those students develop their own ability to weigh opposing arguments, these conclusions will become obsolete as new issues arise in the years ahead. These ‘educated’ people will have developed no ability to analyze opposing sides of issues.
“Students are getting half an education at inflated prices and learning only how to label, dismiss and demonize ideas that differ from what they have been led to believe. Their ‘educated’ ignorance is a danger to the future of this country.”
Summers, a liberal Democrat in good standing, made the mistake of publicly suggesting that perhaps the relative rarity of top women research scientists was the result of something other than sexist discrimination.
Some thoughts are impermissible among the intelligentsia.