Last week, BBC's "World Have Your Say" spent a week in my backyard. The first remote broadcast took place on the Williamson County Square, about 30 miles north of where this blogger slaves over a hot keyboard. Williamson County is one of the reddest of the Red Counties in the Lone Star State and has been a Dumbo stronghold since the late 1960s. The Brit moderator of the international call-in show, Ros Atkins, spoke with passersby on the Courthouse Square and asked both men and women about the results of the '08 election. Atkins asked, "How do you feel after the election?" The universal response from the mostly Dumbo residents was that they felt "very afraid." During this blogger's 3-year sojourn in Williamson County in Geezer City, he felt very afraid of the Birchers and the True Republican Women. The Green Zone in Baghdad is an oasis of calm and rationality compared to Williamson County. Today's 'toon by Tom Tomorrow taps into that Dumbo "fear." If this is (fair & balanced) fear & loathing of Dumbos, so be it.
[x Salon]
This Modern World
By 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.]
Copyright © 2008 Salon Media Group, Inc.
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