A few months ago a few other Glibs suggested I check out Comixology Unlimited when I incorrectly complained that there was no good comic books subscription service. Turns out, there is a pretty ok comic books subscription service. After subscribing for a few months, here are my thoughts and a list of books I enjoyed reading.
Comixology is, by their own account:
ComiXology, an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary, is a revolutionary, cloud-based digital comics service. With content from over 125 publishers as well as thousands of independent creators from around the world, comiXology provides an unrivaled library of comic books, graphic novels, manga and bandes dessinées. The company’s first-in-class innovations include the exclusive Guided View technology which provides an immersive and cinematic reading experience and a monthly subscription service. ComiXology is based in New York City, with operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Comixology Unlimited is a $5.99 a month service that allows you to read an unlimited number of comic books from a limited catalog of books. And that’s the nut. If there’s stuff in there you want to read, it’s a good price that lets you drink from the fire hose. If it is $5.99 for access to crap you don’t want, it is a waste of time and money.
The reading experience took a while to get used to, but that’s mostly my fault. I’m reading on a Google Pixel 2, which has a 5 inch screen. Trying to fit a full page on this isn’t going to happen. I’ve found that you can read in landscape mode with the page set to screen width and scroll down, and that works pretty well for most pages. But if there is a big splash screen or something interesting in the lay out, it’s a bit of a hassle.
The Comixology app tries to solve this with something called a Guided View, where you are transitioned from panel to panel. Again, this is ok, but fails to give you an overview of the whole page. I found that this is really important for me, so I didn’t use Guided View for a long time. But last week I decided to see if I could get it work. Under settings, there’s an option to show the whole page on enter (or exit if you want,) and I found that gives me the experience I like. I can see the whole page and then it feels like I”m zooming in on the panels. Between that and aggressively rotating my phone between landscape and portrait orientation, I’ve got to say that the reading experience is pretty great.
The Guided View with my preferred settings is “better than free,” that is, I’d pay for this even if I got PDF’s of the books for free. The ability to whip out my phone and read a few pages while waiting at the bus, standing in line at the bank, or when my kids are trying to talk to me at dinner is nice and I’m glad to have it.
The selection is really the life taker or heart breaker of this service. So what did I find? Lots of good, and a little bad, as long as you have a reasonable expectation. I knew that the publishers wouldn’t want to cannibalize new sales, so I expected to only find old stuff. By and large, that’s been true, so I’m happy with that. Some publishers, and I’m looking at you Dynamite, only like to put the first trade of a series on Unlimited to entice you to pay the per-book price to buy the rest of the series. More on that later.
So you’ll have to look at the Unlimited catalog for yourself to see if it has enough to get you to shell out six bucks a month. For me, there is more than enough to keep me entertained. Marvel and DC have taken all their goodwill with me and lit it on fire Not the SJW stuff – that’s always been a part of the big 2 publishing houses. It’s the stories. I have no interest in reading books that are going to last two years, maybe, and that are going to get jerked around to fit the latest and greatest cash grab event. But the backlog from the big 2 and indies is large enough to keep me going for a long, long time. Here’s some good stuff on Unlimited that I’ve been reading:
Super Dinosaur!!! This book is a wonderful, earnest story about a kid-genius and his best pal that happens to be a dinosaur. Lots of awesome stuff happens and it’s all innocent, crazy fun from a guy that we know can write serious, brooding stories like the Walking Dead and Invincible. But this is a book for your inner seven year old. I didn’t even write those exclamation points, they just showed up on their own.
Atomic Robo & The Fightin’ Scientists of Tesladyne The honest to God, true life documentary story of that one time Nicola Tesla invented a nuclear powered robot in 1932 that went on all sorts of zany pulp adventures. HP Lovecraft shows up. An insane dinosaur mad-scientist shows up. Carl Sagan shows up. There are lightning guns. There are cowboys. More fun for your seven year old self.
Rebels The honest to God, true life documentary story about Seth Abbot and the Green Mountain Boys. Ok, this historical fiction is actually about real people. There are no lightning guns or dinosaurs. This isn’t a story for my seven year old self. But I love the Revolution. Its fascinating, and I think every American should buy into the myth of America. And oh look, its written by a guy who calls himself an almost-socialist (before it was cool to do so) who also thinks that the Revolution was fascinating and that a myth that every American should buy into.
Lumberjanes Yeah yeah, it’s a book by SJWs for SJWs and it passes the Bechdel Test. I don’t care. This is a good book. A bunch of girls at summer camp solve a bunch of Scooby-Doo level supernatural mysteries. The characters are fun, the story telling is tight, the jokes are plentiful, and the politics are on the back burner if they are in there at all.
Hellboy Man, what can I say about Hellboy if you don’t already know about him? Ok, here’s the premise – Hellboy is a demon born on earth due to a WWII occultist’s summoning. He is prophesied to bring about armageddon. And.. he’s got the personality of a blue-collar dude that just want to live a normal, humble life. But he’s stuck working for the government as a paranormal investigator. He’s a wonderful, lovable character living in a world of geek-porn. There are Nazi’s, Rasputin, his best friend is a fish-man, his lady-friend keeps setting things on fire with her brain, etc. And the story is long, but the author has balls and is actually telling the story of the end of days that Hellboy was prophesied to bring about.
Valiant Everything (the new one) I came of age reading Jim Shooter era Marvel and Chris Claremont X-Men, were writers has years to weave dangling plot strands into a complete tapestry. I watched Terra break Beast Boy’s heart and I watched Nathan Summers fly off into the future only to come back years later as Clint Eastwood. The new Valiant is telling those same kinds of stories with slow-burning arcs and identifiable, consistent personalities. I’m in Act Four of the reading order, and so far everything has been on Unlimited.
Magnus, Robot Fighter (the new one, no newer than that, the Dynamite one) Magnus is cool – he punches robots. But now he’s infused with Super Dad Powers, which, as a Dad, I approve of. I really, really enjoyed the first trade, but it is the only one on Unlimited. They want me to pay for the other trades… well, the problem is my BATANA is to just pick up another book I really like from Unlimited so that’s not going to happen. Too bad. Maybe I’ll blow $5 on the next trade at some point, but I don’t think I will. Too many fish in the sea.
Usagi Yojimbo Don’t let the fact that it’s a bunny fool you, this is a great samurai epic. Usagi is one of the great comic book characters of all time. Love. Duty. Pain. Sacrifice. Loss. Intrigue. It has everything you could ever want in a samurai story.
Incredible Hulk Epic Collection: Man Or Monster? Some of the old Marvel titles are really hit or miss. Pro Tip – don’t go reading old Iron Man stories. But early Hulk was a lot of fun. There are a fair number of silver age collections, and I enjoyed re-reading this one.
So there you have it. Comixology Unlimited – Try it for the 1 month free trial, and you should know within a week or two if it is right for you.
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Do they come in mushroom shapes?
only wood ear
See also: tube steak for dessert, hot beef injection, put the hot dog in the bun, stuffing the meat, etc.
I’m not a comic book guy, but some of these actually sound pretty interesting.
WillMight check them out.I actively hate comic books but I would give the one about the Revolution a shot.
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hitmonth is free…Thanks for this Leap. I loved the Jim Shooter Valiant, but I had the impression that the newer Valiant was pretty heavy-handed proggie message fiction. Is that not the case? (Like they had Archer and Armstrong as being involved with Occupy or some such nonsense).
I think you should try it out for yourself.
A&A is very much informed by Robert Anton Wilson and the The Illuminatus! Trilogy!. There are a number of highly-goofy secret societies, including the big traditional ones like the Gnomes of Zurich, an order of assassin nuns, and the Masons. These societies come and go, so there are new ones like the Black Block and the 1%’ers. When reading it, there were a few libertarian dog-whistles, and I actually thought the author might be One of Us till I looked at his twitter feed. Nope, he’s a former Daily Show writer, but it felt to me like he was writing more *about* political extremism silliness, not so much taking a side. The Black Block are *not* presented as heroes. The Moral Majority, operating out of their secret base underneath the Creation Museum comes off poorly, just like everyone else does.
One recurring issue across the whole line is that every high-level executive government military contractors are hilariously blunt about their corruption when meeting with high-level federal officials in private. The head of PRS (think Blackwater + Rand making psychic Juicers) is a hilariously venal, greedy, scotch-drinking executive officer more than willing to trade lives for the bottom line. But this all comes off to me as poking fun of corporate cronyism, not of the free market. Its not like Twister, where the university scientists are presented as honest brokers and the black SUV corporate meteorologist are the hand-dry-washing villains.
If you are a delicate flower that needs your every bias petted and told how special it is and how smart you are, well, you won’t find that here – you’ll have to go to NPR, Lew Rockwell, or Brietbart. This is no more proggy stuff than the occasional anti-market bias of a young Jim Shooter.
That sounds great, actually. I don’t mind mine oxen being gored as long as that other fucker gets his gored too and it is done entertainingly. I read plenty of fiction where there’s a clearly liberal/prog outlook behind the writer, but it isn’t the point of it. I think that is an important distinction; wold view influencing the narrative versus the narrative being propaganda for a world view.
And hat A&A sounds awesome and terrific.
Slight digression: Why has there not been more discussion on this board about The Illuminatus Trilogy!? That is one of the all-time greats.
One of these days I will actually finish it.
Flipping around reading random passages is a pretty good way to go.
I read it, twice I think, but that was fnord 30 years ago.
For some reason I feel a general sense of anxiety and uneasiness when reading this comment but don’t know why….
That would be in keeping with the spirit of it.
Never much been into comic books; my conception of them has always been Archie and the prototypical superheroes (Superman, Spider-Man, etc.). These sound a lot more interesting though and I might be willing to give them a shot.
Comics stopped being exclusively for kids in about 1980 or so – in the so called “Bronze age.” There are now things that I enjoy like Super Dinosaur!!!! or Usagi that are fun (like kids books) but adult aimed (In that they have emotional and plot depth, not explicit shots of no-no parts.) There are of course grown up books that are unmoored from the fun history and tradition of comic books like Maus, American Born Chinese, or Paying For It. They share a medium with what you are thinking of, but not much cultural mixing. And of course, there are adult-as-in-adult stuff like Cry for Dawn (anatomically improbable women in french underoos) or explicit porn line drawings.
*looks up Cry for Dawn*
*proceeds to order the whole catalog*
“anatomically improbable”
In the words of the great Theodor Herzl: “If you will it, it is no dream.”
Comics stopped being exclusively for kids in about 1980 or so
Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson might beg to disagree and put the date a few decades earlier.
True, but like with all things: You can have a complete response, or you can have a generalized response that I can write quickly. The underground comix were socially important to a non-mainstream subculture, but a footnote overall.
Depends on what kind of comics you read. If you read The Freak Brothers or R.Crumb stuff, I doubt you’d think it was for kids.
Incidentally, I read some of Peter Bagge’s stuff in one of Crumb’s compilations. I mentioned it in the comments section of one of his Reason submissions, and he got salty even though I hadn’t made any qualitative comments. (I think he was pretty far left previously, and didn’t want that widely known)
Or what OMWC said.
Usagi-
I remember him from the TMNT show. Did he predate turtles or is this a spinoff?
Both were first published in 1984 in an act of spontaneous parallel evolution. Usagi was the product of a Hawaiian American of (half?) Japanese ancestry looking to learn more about that part of his personal history. Turtles were a not-kid-targeted spoof on contemporary Grim-N-Gritty titles like Ronin, using four turtles played straight as filthy ninja protagonists. Turtles went kid-friendly shortly there after, the cash-registered started going Cha-Ching, and IIRC Stan Sakai licenced Usagi to show up in the Turtles-kiddy-verse.
Usagi is great, but its never been a cash cow.
Fascinating. Thanks.
So Rosenstein is out? See you later you mendacious, seditious cocksucker.
His super-secret CIA lawyer wife is still in.
^look at Scooter Libby here outing CIA assets.
look at
Scooter LibbyRichard Armitage here outingCIADeep State assets.Looks like I got my schadenfreude boner up for nothing. Maybe he gets fired on Thursday.
So yeah. Sitting at work. Waiting. Cause my work won’t provision a Visual Studio License I need to access a proprietary testing tool that they decided to use.
“Did you submit a ticket?”
Did you check the thermostat?
Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?
MSTest?
Bleh..
My thoughts too.
Seriously, my shop does a ton of .NET FWK/Core, and after I showed them the beauty and simplicity of NUnit (especially around mocking), we chose to never use MSTest because it reeks.
In order to help you further I’m going to require a debit card number. Do you have a debit card sir? If so, please get it now and read the numbers to me so I can fix your computer.
I thought “service desks” like these required unmarked gift cards in large denominations?
Sir, each moment you wait to provide me with your debit card number, hackers are probing further into your computer. Do you see any porn on your computer sir? These are hackers attempting to send child porn to your computer and they will call the police on you.
*hits porn send button*
Prison guards find nearly $18M worth of cocaine in donated bananas
Someone is getting beheaded…
So, actual street value is about 600k?
This is at least a start. I’m sure we can expect the criminal charges any time now.
“Dallas police officer Amber Guyger fired after fatally shooting neighbor Botham Jean”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/24/dallas-police-officer-amber-guyger-fired-after-fatally-shooting-neighbor-botham-jean.html
Missed it by that much.
/Agent 86
Criminal trespass?
What a shitty, shitty job that headline writer did. “Fired” has two meanings, and the passive voice introduces ambiguity. Given that Guyer is in the news for the shots she fired out of her gun, the most natural reading is that it says Guyer fired her weapon after fatally shooting Jean, as in that she mozambique drill’ed Jean.
There we go again, holding female officers to a higher standard than male officers. A male cop can gun down a couple three neighbors every so often and nobody makes a big deal out of it.
Doesn’t help that her story shifted, and that she couldn’t really go to the “he was a potsmoker who smelled like pot” line until she had already nailed her feet to the floor with
“I done went to the wrong apartment because I was tired” line.
The occasional good news:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/24/dallas-officer-amber-guyger-fired-shoot-kill-neighbor-botham-jean-manslaughter-charge/
Amber Guyger — the Dallas police officer arrested for manslaughter after shooting and killing her neighbor in his apartment — has been fired.
Of course, she’ll be reinstated with back-pay after an appeal.
And immediately take full disability for life due to the trauma of it all.
I’ve read some comics on my kindle 10″. I agree that the ‘guided view’ is definitely the way to go.
I imploded on comics back in the mid ’90s, when Marvel started putting special covers on everything, and all the artists went places like Image and Valiant to write self-indulgent crap.
I went from spending ~$50 a week to cold turkey. I’ve maybe bought a small handful of trades and looked at free samples of stuff on Kindle, in the last 20 years.
Bottom line: Can’t see spending 5.99.
As a younger self I only got into “SGT Rock” and not so young self “Cherry Poptart”. The book on the Green Mountain Boys does look interesting though.
So Rosenstein is out?
Will he be appearing in a Nike ad?
He believed in something or other, didn’t he?
He will be showing up at sparsely attended NFL games to take a knee.
Did you check the thermostat?
Try putting the vacuum gauge on it.
Of course, she’ll be reinstated with back-pay after an appeal.
Let’s not judge until all the facts are in.
I’m sure the FBI is already on it.
Very nice write-up Leap. I enjoyed reading it even though I quit reading comic books long ago.
If I’m going to read comic books, I might as well read one full of naked womenz. And if I’m going to read comix full of naked womenz, I might as well watch pornhub instead. You can see my dilemma.
I will confess to binging the entire “Y: The Last Man” series a few years ago on vacation. That was a good guilty-pleasure read.
Yes, but there’s nothing on pornhub that compares to Omaha the Cat Dancer
“If I’m going to read comic books, I might as well read one full of naked womenz.”
At this point you are better off watching tentacle pr0n.. very moving and inspiring stuff that.
And stories like this warm my heart because of the pants shitting that it will make team blue assholes engage in….
That Franciso announcement does seem like it has very significant headsplosion potential.
And, I guess slithering and pulsating qualify as “moving”.
oh man. and i’m sure Mueller was thiiiiiiiiss close to busting Trump for collusion with Russia too!
Cause he had AAAALLLLLL this proof he was just waiting to sprin on us all, right?
He was rolling them up from the bottom! Just when he was about to finally go after Trump, suddenly the investigation is stopped. Looks pretty damn obvious. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
HP Lovecraft and Tesla’s fighting robot?? these titles kick ass.
Are y’all working or something? Slow day today.
Don’t tell Rufus.
As opposed to Co-mixology, where identical twins work as a tandem bartender serving beverage pairs. Two drinks, but they both pour part of each one.
Cocktail, but with Twins! (the beer commercial “And Twins!”, not Terminator/Penguin “Twins”)
A welcome break from derp.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-microscope-shows-the-quantum-world-in-crazy-detail/
Cool sciencey stuff.
Not a cover, but a mashup: The Bangles and Slayer – “Walk Like an Angel of Death”
most excellent
I should put that up on my Derpbook page, just to see how many heads explode.
I love these mashups.
OT: Can’t say I disagree with the premise that “team red will commit suicide unless they vote on Kavanaugh already“, cause the SCOTUS is one of the most important reasons people voted against Hillary and her choices.
Pretty much where I am; if the Repubs don’t have the spine to push through a manifestly qualified candidate because of a transparently partisan and unsubstantiated set of smears, then they truly are completely useless.
I was very disappointed when they buckled and starting extending deadlines for final agreement and hearings. I think its Flake; if I was McConnell, I would have removed him from the Judiciary Committee when he undercut Grassley’s position on Ford’s hearing. The Monday deadline was a real deadline, as in it was the last day for a hearing that would allow Kavanaugh to be on the Court when its next session starts. Kavanaugh is showing spine in his letter refusing to back out and calling the smear campaign what it is. McConnell is hanging in, as is Trump (who seems to have gotten the message that his best move on this is to shut the fuck up).
What I don’t know is this: If Flake fucks them again on Thursday and doesn’t vote for Kavanaugh, can the full Senate take up the nomination anyway, or does that kill it?
Also: If Ford is going to make it DC by Thursday without flying, she pretty much has to leave California today. So, did she?
TW: ABC News
It looks like they have to have a majority to vote it out with whatever kind of recommendation. If they can’t pull together a majority, I think it’s dead.
But it can be taken out of the committee’s hands. Interesting thank you.
As I read that, even if Flake doesn’t votes for Kavanaugh, it still goes to the full Senate (probably without recommendation, if he votes with Repubs on that, or unfavorably if he votes with the Dems).
Assuming we are done with this farce on Thursday at the committee level, I wonder what the plan/schedule is in the Senate? When would they vote, would the Repubs take the next step of revoking the filibuster for SCOTUS, and/or do they have the votes to at least clear the filibuster?
Didn’t they already revoke the filibuster to confirm Gorsuch? It should be dead and done with.
You’re right. I kinda thought they did, but the article says that SCOTUS is still subject to filibuster; didn’t check the date on it (pre-Gorsuch).
After all this time, they still apparently haven’t figured out why Trump was elected. That article is dead on – this is a point of no return for the GOP. If they puss out now, a huge chunk of their voters will never vote for another Republican.
Meh, they’ll be in a punishing mood alright but do they really think they’ll be better off letting D’s get elected unopposed? Do they really think that failure to seat their conservative nominee is the WORST possible outcome? Maybe, but I’m not convinced.
I think it goes to turnout. I could see a low Repub turnout this year if Kavanaugh isn’t approved, which would shift some seats. Would they never vote for a Repub again? I kinda doubt it, but it could really hurt them this year, especially if a Dem victory on Kavanaugh fires up their base.
It’s not about Kavanaugh himself. It’s about folding yet again in the face of Dem chicanery. Time after time, these guys have proven that they’ll leap to shank their own supporters rather than standing firm against the progs. And, what’s worse is that the Dems’ case is laughably weak. The entire thing is such a transparent hit job and yet the Republicans are being browbeaten into playing along.
Yep, because it’s the GOP themselves preventing the SC nomination, not the Dems.
I’ve said before that this whole accusation play is geared towards the GOPe and not the public. It’s use was solidified by it’s success in claiming Moore’s scalp.
Yeah they will.
Fine, I should clarify – they’re not going to vote for Republican establishment types again. They’ll vote for more Trumps, that’s all.
But, Kavanaugh is as establishment as it comes. I think they won’t show-up for the midterms, but they’ll go back to voting Republican. What choice do some of them have? Who else are rural working class people going to vote for?
I don’t think it matters that Kav is establishment; its the spectacle of the GOP establishment in Congress proving, again, its craven uselessness that would keep Repubs home and probably give non-establishment challengers a leg up in the primaries next go-round.
Again, it isn’t about Kavanaugh himself. It’s about being willing to fight against the progs.
They’ll vote in a primary for whatever carnival barker convinces them that he hates the Republican establishment as much as they do, and if that guy loses they’ll stay home in November.
So my choice is to vote for useless GOPers or face a proggie Dem future if I stay home?
I think your choice will be more clearly revealed as either
(a) stay home so the proggie Dems win more seats, and face a proggie Dem future, or
(b) vote for useless establishment Repubs, and face a proggie Dem future.
B) still gives me a slight chance on 2A being upheld.
If the choice is between dead babies and dead adults, I’ll choose dead adults.
C’mon, Chip. Voters aren’t THAT principled.
The funny thing to me is I’m old enough to remember Clinton and to me it wasn’t that long ago. The way the arguments have all switched is hilarious to me; it really is just rooting for a sports team.
I’ve heard a lot of people make that comparison. But, comparing the accusations against Clinton to those against Kavanaugh really is an apples and bowling balls comparison.
The accusations against Clinton are more comparable to Roy Moore (multiple accusers with corroborating details and witnesses) than to Kavanaugh.
All accusations are equally credible if #believeher is your standard of evidence.
Yet, oddly, the Dems don’t seem to be #believehering when it comes to Dem candidates like Keith Ellison. Its almost like the real standard of evidence is (a) no amount of evidence is enough to convict a Dem and (b) no evidence is needed to convict a Repub.
I fully expect Jeff Flake to vote against Kavanaugh, because his audition for MSNBC is being televised
Doesn’t Norm MacDonald have more viewership than MSNBC?
Oddly Flake voting against Kavanaugh is probably the best thing he could do to help Repubs hang onto his seat. If Kavanaugh gets approved, he will have shown Arizona what it would meant to have a Dem in his seat (which I think helps McSally, the Repub nominee). If Kavanaugh doesn’t make it, I think the Senate Repubs may well kiss his seat and any others that aren’t solidly Repub goodbye.
it makes sense to wait for Flake before proceeding. once you get his buy-in, he won’t vote in committee and then flip in the full Senate. and they need Flake b/c the two “moderate” women from Alaska and Maine are not guaranteed. i have more faith in Alaska than Maine however. so that would make Pence the tie breaker 51-50.
so Kav has to sit out the October term. big deal. he’s going to be on the court 30 years.
it makes sense to wait for Flake before proceeding.
That depends on whether any of the endangered Dems are going to flip and vote for Kavanaugh, and how long you have to wait for Flake. I think for Repub voters, waiting until after the election (which is what the Dems want) will be the same as not approving Kavanaugh at all.
Snow was making the right noises last week about all this; don’t know if she is still hanging in or has decided to go all #believeher.
that is good.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) made clear on CNN on Sunday that Kavanaugh does not deserve to be presumed innocent, notwithstanding the lack of any corroborating evidence of any of the allegations made against him, entirely because his political ideology and judicial philosophy do not align with those of the Democratic Party.
When asked whether Kavanaugh is entitled to the presumption of innocence, Hirono said, “I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases.” Translation: he is guilty because of what he believes, not because of anything he’s actually done. Laverentiy Beria, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s most trusted police inquisitor, who famously declared, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime,” would surely applaud the totalitarian sentiment underlying Hirono’s statement.
No clue why they need more tests to prove this happened. All they need to do is drop by where ever I am at on a Friday night….
So, they are going to settle the science.
*facepalm*
There are legit issues with the Big Bang theory.
In that link:
…accompanied by a picture of, presumably, Florence covering the entire Atlantic.
I’m not clicking that link because the headline and picture would have me believe that Florence was the direct consequence of NC failing to pass said legislation.
So they can watch you catching up on the escapades of Sheldon, Leonard, Penny and Raj?
Just in case you thought this thing couldn’t get any more farcical:
“human rights violations” apparently now mean drunken groping and dick-waving.
It can ALWAYS get more farcical.
I can’t remember, is that one of the Iron Laws? How come they aren’t linked from the sidebar yet? (NB: I’m not actually checking to see if they’re linked from the sidebar.)
I have considered adding “It can always get worse” as a new Iron Law.
That one appeals to me.
WOW.
I think we’re plumbing new depths here.
I think they may be referring to his work in the Bush administration. But, all the information that has been provided doesn’t suggest that he was involved in decisions regarding overseas conflicts.
If we’re being honest here, this is all about abortion. But, no one wants to admit it so they are all hiding behind false narratives.
Kavanaugh’s poor views on the 4th Amendment are really the only credible criticisms against him. It’s depressing that that was not the central opposition to his nomination. And that includes ostensibly libertarian commentators who have suddenly adopted a “believe all women” mantra, despite the lack of any corroborating testimony or witnesses.
Their new found position, too, is really just about abortion. It’s like a perverse sacrament to some and arouses a religious fervor unparalleled in any other faith.
And that includes all sides on that debate
I don’t even know what to do with that…
At least this could be related to his 4th Amendment record.