I would hate to think John Kerry would lose the election but I'd really hate to think he'd lose the election because of the "Swift Boat Veterans" campaign. Just as I hated the thought that Michael Dukakis lost because a lot of Americans believed he would give prison furloughs to convicted murderers or that Al […]
This evening around 8:00 Eastern time, C-Span will be running John Kerry's 1971 testimony before Congress with regard to the Vietnam War. I recall watching this when it first aired, which was at a time when I was making a difficult transition. I had been a supporter of that war, or at least a person […]
December 7 may turn out to be a date that shall live in infamy for animation buffs trying to not spend money on DVDs from the Warner TV animation library. That's when they plan to release boxed sets of the complete run of Top Cat, the second season of The Flintstones, Volume 1 of Superman: […]
As we mentioned not long ago, the Game Show Network is shuffling its Black-and-White Overnight bloc. The only dangling mystery from that report was what would replace the reruns of What's My Line? that they've now been through at least twice. 'Tis a mystery no longer. The replacement for What's My Line? will be…What's My […]
Dana Milbank offers a list of Kerry quotes and the way Bush seems to have distorted their meaning in response. […]
Mark Thorson, who is one of my band of loyal readers who instantly catches my every typo, writes to ask… By the way, I may have failed to notice it, but a few months ago you had some articles on a possible impending Writer's Guild strike, and I don't remember that being followed up by […]
Know what today is? Okay, right, Wednesday. But this particular Wednesday marks 91 years since the birthing day of Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. He wasn't much of an artist then but before long, he grew up to become one of the most honored, quoted cartoonists of all time. Those who know Pogo love Pogo and […]
Did John Kerry fib about spending Christmas Eve in Cambodia a few decades ago? Since I think all politicians utter the occasional untruth, it wouldn't be a big deal to me if he did lie, particularly about something so relatively unimportant. I certainly can't understand someone getting worked up over that but giving George W. […]
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Over on Cartoon Brew, the fine website he operates with Jerry Beck, Amid Amidi has posted this message in which he says… It's easy to make fun of TV animation execs, but it's even easier to make fun of the twits who work at the networks' Broadcast Standards & Practices divisions. These low-lifes have done […]
A clever and brave man named George Kirgo has died at the age of 78. George had a long and very happy career as a writer and occasional producer of TV and movies. His credits in motion pictures included Spinout and Don't Make Waves. In television, he wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Nichols, […]
Matt Drudge just posted the story I had up here yesterday morning about the phony tornado prediction for Los Angeles. Given his usual record for accuracy, maybe we're both wrong. […]
I think I agree with Thomas Oliphant in his take on the whole Swift Boat controversy. […]
The New York Times, which has never run comic strips, offers this article about troubles in the newspaper comic strip business. […]
Well, I'm glad to see that Campaign Finance Reform has done such a fine job of protecting us from "attack ads." I haven't seen any negative commercials…have you? Making candidates say "I approved this message" has also been very successful in preventing them from not taking responsibility for the irresponsible bashing of their opponents. We […]