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Mr. Fish on Obama-Wright, That Ad, and the Big Gas Tax Swindle

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

The brilliance of Mr. Fish! I really need to start including him in my cartoon roundups.
His take on Obama v. Wright is especially trenchant.
I’m not necessarily saying that I absolutely agree with the cartoon’s comically reductive expression of certain religious beliefs, but its portrayal of the double standard regarding what’s considered fair game for criticism […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Democrats · Barack Obama · Hillary Clinton · Comics · John McCain · Iraq · Harper's · Foreign Policy · Energy · Video · 2008 Election · Elections · The Economy, Stupid · Infrastructure

Roundup: Pansies vs. Chair Sniffers Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am

A little sampler platter for you, my pretties …
First up, a brilliant post by Hunter on Daily Kos:
Things I have learned during this campaign season:
In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his wife, the black guy […]

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Larry King on the Other Larry King: Day of Silence PSA

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 25th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Very cool — CNN’s Larry King records a PSA in honor of his murdered namesake, in support of the 12th annual Day of Silence organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

 
Previously on Ocelopotamus:
• Death by Flirting
 

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · LGBT · Media · TV · Human Rights · Video · Hate Crimes · Education · Homophobia · Transgender

With Six You Get Blogroll

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm

So yesterdoodle, as part of my ongoing efforts to get the Ocelopotamus back to full health and vitality, I finally got around to overhauling the blogroll (that’s that tall snaky thing over to the right that looks like a list of nonsensical words and phrases!) with some links that I’ve been accumulonimbusing for a stoat’s […]

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Comical Cartoon Comics

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 am

Because I haven’t brought you your funnies in a while …
• Tom the Dancing Bug’s Super-Fun-Pak Comix.
… T’Aint no evolution!
• Matt Bors: Let’s ask a multi-millionaire who sounds like a redneck!
… Ya follow?
• Opus: What to take if your nipples shoot sparks.
• Tom Toles: Constructing the angry tea-drinking elitist.
• Dinosaur Comics: literally kind of funny. […]

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Tags: Politics · Culture · Books · Comics · Nature

Thank You, Bob (or, That Flag Pin Won’t Get You Into Heaven Any More)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Bob Schieffer attempts to explain it slowly and clearly for George Stephanopoulos. It probably won’t do any good, but I love him for trying.
And seriously — it’s beyond tragic that this sort of thing even needs to be said, but clearly it does.

 
Via this diary.
I like the parallel Mr. Schieffer draws here between public […]

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Tags: Meta · Politics · Culture · Music · Barack Obama · Folk · Video · 2008 Election · Religion · Journalism · Elections

Condi Must Go

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 16th, 2008 at 11:12 am

I’ll say this for Condoleeza Rice — she does an outstanding job of making the case against herself.
Watch her effectively prosecute herself on video:

 
Read this diary for context.
Visit CondiMustGo.com for more info and to sign the online petition.
 

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Tags: Politics · George W. Bush · Activism · Torture · Human Rights · Video · Law · Justice System

Bitter

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

This is just sublime.

 
Man, he knows how to talk back.
In fact, I have no choice but to haul out the Oh Snap Flowchart:

(Swiped from this diary.)
 

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Tags: News · Politics · Democrats · Barack Obama · Hillary Clinton · John McCain · Video · 2008 Election · The Economy, Stupid

Torch

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 4:05 am

I’ve said this many times in the past, and I’m sure I’ll say it again in the future:
God bless Peter Tatchell.
Towleroad:
Gay activist Peter Tatchell was one of dozens detained in various protests over the weekend surrounding the transit of the Olympic flame through London, including one dramatic moment in which the torch was nearly snatched […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · LGBT · Activism · Human Rights · China

Schadenfreudian Hillarity

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am

In case you haven’t seen any of these yet, my pals at Schadenfreude (who I love despite the fact that they terrify me sometimes) are doing a good job of capturing the current logic of the Hillary campaign in video.

 
These are turning up all over Greater Blogistania and one of the other installments in […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Blogs · Chicago · Comedy · Democrats · Barack Obama · Hillary Clinton · Fringe · Performance · Video · 2008 Election · Elections

Freedom Is Slavery (Doubleplus for Iraqi Women)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 6th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Newsweek on what life is like for women in Iraq in these days of the glorious surge:
The insurgents have been driven out of her southwest Baghdad neighborhood, but the 30-year-old shop assistant is still frightened. A year ago Al Qaeda in Iraq ruled the streets outside her home, and Mahdi Army militia units kept the […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Peace · Iraq · Foreign Policy · Feminism

Shopping Cart Blanch

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s experiencing sticker shock over my grocery shopping bills.
Across the United States, consumers like Norris are finding that grocery shopping has become a sobering experience as their budgets fail to keep pace with food costs.
Reuters reporters visited Wal-Mart stores in Romeoville, Illinois, Secaucus, New Jersey and Santa Clarita, […]

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Tags: News · Politics · Food · Journal · Organic Food · The Economy, Stupid

Death by Flirting

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

From Friday’s AP story on Lawrence King:
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Larry King was a gay eighth-grader who used to come to school in makeup, high heels and earrings. And when the other boys made fun of him, he would boldly tease them right back by flirting with them.
That may have been what got him killed.
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Tags: News · Culture · LGBT · Media · Comedy · TV · Human Rights · Hate Crimes · Education · Journalism · Homophobia

Mid-January Frosted Mini-Roundup

Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am

I’m starting to worry that Ocelopotamus has become like that stock old-man character from sitcoms and things, who falls asleep for a while and then wakes up sputtering and tries to pick the conversation up wherever it was five minutes ago, as if no time has passed.
On the other hand, it’s heartening that I […]

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