Wednesday Toon Roundup 4- The rest

[n2doc]

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Weed




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Education

[planetc]

1. all toons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024297169

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024297170

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024297171

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024297172

[davidpdx]

2. OMG the last one is dead one

Do we have to pay them more to behave themselves?

[Gothmog]

3. Thank you for the cartoons

[rustbeltvoice]

4. yes, thank you.

I do not even notice who posts these; but i do enjoy seeing them, even before i became a posting member. Some of these cartoonists i had been familiar with before, and some i had sought out on search engines, but some are from fellows and sources that were completely unknown to me. [The Toles toon almost never fully downloads] If you have explained how you find and post these, i would like to know. Doonesbury has been syndicated for a lifetime, Luckovich has won his Pulitzer(s), Danziger, and Bennett are often remarkably sharp and accurate. The posting of these are not just entertaining, it is a service rendered. Thank you.

On another train of thought...it seems to me, that beyond the preponderance, the good cartoons are of a certain political spirit and direction. The party of Romney, gwbjr, Cantor, Issa, et alia does not produce comedy well. I have maintained, that for something to be funny, it must be true. I perhaps would like to start a thread on that idea.

[n2doc]

5. Most cartoons can be found in a few sites

http://editorialcartoonists.com/#top
http://www.politicalcartoons.com
and
http://www.gocomics.com/


RW cartoons tend to be unfunny because they either are mean to the powerless, are deliberately misleading, or racist/sexist. Just like with their comedians, the right wing doesn't do comedy well. Even their famed one line zingers don't translate to the written page well. Of course I'm biased, so that might be part of the problem.

[rustbeltvoice]

7. yes

"unfunny because they either are mean to the powerless, are deliberately misleading, or racist/sexist"

Yes, i have noticed this also: "deliberately misleading" is false and meant to be; "mean to the powerless", years ago, i read a book by a Jesuit, and he made a distinction about "satanic humour". One example would be, laughing at a man slipping and falling on a banana peel. This may be humourous (to some), but it is cruel, and does not tell us anything. Further, i think he was also trying to explain why clowns scare some people.

I think it is a safe assumption, that we may agree that, Mark Twain was a world class humourist. Twain (Samuel Clemens) was a serious writer, writing humoursly at times. He wrote about the human condition. I remember from study, Twain was very popular for Russian reading public; and the Russians had many world class writers.

The sort of humour of Twain, Trudeau, Letterman, and several others just does not seem possible from certain political quarters. Fascists are not funny, ridiculous quite often, funny -- no.

[rrneck]

6. Ooh, that last one's good. nt

[dickthegrouch]

8. Love the last one /nt