Today, Tom Tomorrow Travels Back In Time To 1952

In today's thrilling installment, boys and girls, the mad scientist — Dr. Wilbur von Philbert — is visited by Ricky Dumbass (R-TX), Bachmann Moron Overdrive (R-MN), and Captain Orange (R-OH). The mad scientist sends the 3 geniuses off on a time-travel expedition to kill more dinosaurs in the distant past so that there will be more oil in the ground in 2011. Oops. As the 'toonist himself wrote today:

I know, I know — it's an utterly implausible cartoon. Republicans would never seek out answers from a scientist. And obviously Michele Bachmann would insist that they need travel no further than six thousand years [in the past] to reach the dawn of time....

If this is a (fair & balanced) tribute to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" (1952), so be it.

[x This Modern World]
A Sound Of Blunder
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.]

Copyright © 2011 Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

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Today's Top 10 List For Ricky Dumbass

Ray Perry could have saved his dumbass son, Ricky, a lot of embarrassment if he had renamed the Perry family hunting camp: "Stupidhead." MoJo blogger Kevin Drum has provided 8 reasons why Ricky Dumbass should pack his bags and slink off stage. Thanks to David Gaptooth, the late-night pop culture expects a Top Ten List and blogger Kevin stopped at #8. Here are the final two list-items for Ricky Dumbass:

9. Buy national TV-time and apologize to the Teabaggers for saying that they don't have a heart because, truth be known, you don't have a brain.
10. Replace the blanks with live ammunition in that revolver you love to fire, insert the barrel in your mouth, and...!

If this is (fair & balanced) truth to power, so be it.

[x MoJo]
Rick Perry's Spectacular Fall From Grace
By Kevin Drum

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Just to recap, in less than two months Rick Perry has:

1. Suggested that maybe Ben Bernanke should be lynched.
2. Declined to back off his contention that Social Security is an unconstitutional Ponzi scheme.
3. Called climate change a "contrived phony mess" that was cooked up by scientists who have "manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects."
4. Pissed off the conservative base by defending his decision to (in Michele Bachmann's immortal words) give "government injections" to "innocent little 12-year-old girls." Said Perry condescendingly: "What I don't get is what parents don't understand about an opt out."
5. Further pissed off the conservative base by suggesting that if you disagree with his policy on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, "I don't think you have a heart."
6. Mangled a prepackaged debate attack on Mitt Romney so badly, and then followed up with a statement on Pakistan so inscrutable, that even his supporters started to wonder if he has a three-digit IQ.
7. Proposed that U.S. troops should be used to fight Mexican drug lords. In Mexico.
8. Had to defend himself against revelations that his family leases a hunting spot called "Niggerhead."

I'm putting this up because you can't truly grasp the full scope of Perry's train wreck campaign unless you see the whole list in one place. It's really pretty stupendous. Has any top-tier presidential candidate in history ever imploded quite this quickly? Ω

[Kevin Drum is a political blogger who was a blogosphere pioneer when, after a stint in marketing, he went online as Calpundit in 2003. Prior to joining MoJo, he blogged at the Washington Monthly's Political Animal. Drum attended the California Institute of Technology for two years. He transferred to California State University at Long Beach and received his bachelor's degree in journalism in 1981. While at CSULB he served as city editor of the university's student run newspaper, the Daily 49er.]

Copyright © 2011 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress

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