Look Up In The Sky: Is It A Simile Or A Metaphor? NO! It's A Cliché!

When speaking of The Mighty Quinnette, this blog prefers to describe her facial expression during interviews as "the caribou caught in the crosshairs" look. There are viral posts on the Web showing images of The Mighty Q crouched over the bloody carcass of a killer caribou after The Mighty Q felled the savage beast just before it charged and trampled The Mighty Q's youngest daughter, Pistol (or whatever). The Geezer lags behind The Mighty Q as a Great White Hunter. Perhaps he can go bird hunting and bag a savage quail. Even if The Geezer has to shoot the bird on the ground, who could begrudge his Paleolithic instincts? If this is (fair & balanced) old-fashioned venery, so be it.

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This Modern World
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

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Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins

[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.

Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.

When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]

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