Sunday, August 21, 2005

Recommended Reading

Two very prominent Conservative bloggers have declared their opposition to the War in Iraq. Andy McCarthy states his reasons here and Professor Stephen Bainbridge does so here. Essentially, McCarthy feels that Americans are dying in Iraq to establish a theoracy ruled by and for Islam, which is not what we want...while Bainbridge feels that the war has been ineptly planned and has been a distraction from the Conservative agenda.

I offer these views without comment, except to say that if the war effort keeps losing supporters like that, it's all over.

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Science Marches On

I haven't mentioned it here lately but the Reach Access Daily Flosser is still the greatest scientific breakthrough of the last few centuries. Others may try to tell you that honor belongs to the personal computer, the airplane or even the decoding of the human genome. These people are damn idiots. It's the Reach Access Daily Flosser, I tell you.

Hey, which is more important? Wiping out all disease and suffering or getting those little bits of food out from between your back teeth? I rest my case.

I do not own stock or any other financial interest in the Reach Access Daily Flosser. I just think it's a wonderful thing and I am grateful that technology has advanced to the point where this was possible. I mean, I'm sure that for the first fifty years of my life, it was scientifically impossible to make a stick with a little piece of dental floss on the end. In any case, I'm glad someone finally did.

You can stock up on Reach Access Daily Flossers at any market or drugstore, or you can get a free one sent to you at this site. I'd recommend laying in a big supply...at least three or four for every tooth.

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More Blondie Crossovers

The King in The Wizard of Id plans to attend the Bumsteads' anniversary celebration. This will require all the elaborate preparations he mentions plus one he doesn't: Time travel.

Meanwhile, the anniversary is acknowledged in the "Crimestoppers Textbook" feature of today's Dick Tracy strip. I suppose someone will suggest the Blondie strip is among the greater crimes that Dick has called on his readers to help eradicate.

• Posted at 8:54 AM · LINK

Radical Chic (Young)

The Great Blondie Comic Strip Crossover kicks up another notch today with a quick mention in B.C. and with many of the invited characters showing up in the Blondie strip. I think some of the guests aren't going to receive invitations in their strips untl next week but, hey, these are the funnies. They're not supposed to be logical. I also don't understand how Garfield has suddenly learned how to talk. [NOTE: I'm going to try to link to all the strips involved in this event but some of them may be behind subscription walls or on sites that require registration.]

Yesterday, I posted this list of which strips are involved in the promotion and when. Apparently, the person who furnished it to me got it from the rec.arts.comic.strips newsgroup, mainly from a posting there by D.D. Degg. You should know that r.a.c.s. is a fine gathering place for fans of newspaper strips and a good place to visit if you have a question about that topic or if you just want to discuss them.

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