Monday, May 28, 2018

Today, Two Members Of The "Faithful Base" Come Out Of The Closet

At first, this blogger was nonplussed by the accompanying e-mail from Tom/Dan. It was brief without the usual salutation ("Hey all") and valedictory close ("Dan/Tom"). Upon reflection, it was mercifully brief because the message in the 'toon was brutally honest.

My response to the argument that’s been popping up a lot lately, that we shouldn’t criticize awful people because they then figure they have nothing to lose, and embrace full-on awfulness. People don’t become racists and Nazis because you call them out on their racist and Nazi behavior.

In today's 'toon, Sparky the Wonder Penguin (wearing Inuit-style googles to ward off bull$hit-blindness) encounters a pair of 2016 True Believers who ultimately display their true colors in the final panel. If this is display of true beliefs is a (fair & balanced) fulfillment of the old Foo-Bird Joke, so be it.

[x TMW]
Penguin Thinks We're Nazis
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)


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 Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins 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 blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]

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