Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Will "The Hookers & Whiskey Act" Be Unveiled Tomorrow Night?

Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) gives us a Wall Street fantasy. Cash in the entire Social Security trust fund and give the entire amount to CEOs for rare single-malt Scotch whiskey and expensive prostitutes: The Hookers and Whiskey Act of 2010! If this is the ultimate (fair & balanced) bailout, so be it.

[x Salon]
"This Modern World — Language Is A Virus"
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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