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Still Feels Like a Car Crash, Huh?

Even after what just happened with the stock market the GOP are still trying to push through privatization of Social Security!  Just pay more taxes you rich fucks!

Crashin' Some Cars and Stickin' Some 'Celerators, Yo!

I'm just realizing (after seeing several of these) that the "suck accelerator" has also become a meme in political satire that relates directly to the car crash meme. It won't have the staying power of the car crash because, let's face it, a lot of this country's politics looks just like a car crash. As long as there are cars with people in them there will be car crashes while Toyota will shrink massively until it gets back its reputation for quality... or they'll go bankrupt, either way the stuck accelerator thing will end, but until it does, I'll post cartoons about it:

"Free Speech"

More Corporate Overlords! - The Death of America

Mr. Fish.

Where's My Vote? cont'd

Still Wreckin' Dem Cars

More Wrecks

The meme has morphed slightly. Now instead of the car wreck, it is the airliner/birds/ditching theme. The "America as car wreck" theme was occurring at the same time as the jet crashing into the Hudson cartoons but for the last couple of weeks it's been nothing but jets and the geese have become flying elephants:





I've also been seeing a lot of Titanic themed cartoons but they seem a bit strained to me. Too many people escaped the sinking of the Titanic to be similar to what's happening financially in this country.

More Golf Gags

I read a lot of cartoons and I've got to agree with the sentiment of this one. There are more golf gags, bad boss gags, henpecked husband gags, etc. than gags relating to modern life. Part of it is these strips are syndicated strips that have been around through several artists so there is this lame attempt to keep them "the same." The problem with that method of ruining the comics page is that most of these cartoons were a bit risque and edgy when they were new. I found a comics page from the 1950's while working on a house (it was sandwiched between the floorboards) and Dagwood was trying to sneak behind Blondie's back to go smoke cigars and play poker. Now all Dagwood does is knock down the postman, nap, eat big sandwiches, and piss off his boss. I think his telephone still has a rotary dial on it. Perhaps one benefit of the death of the newspaper as we know it will be the end of Blondie, Wizard of Id, Beetle Bailey, Garfield and the like. They outlived their relevance and humor decades ago.