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Boom!’s Straw Poll Show Comic Book Fans are a Discriminating Lot
The following press release just arrived from our friends and BOOM! and it should be noted that it was conducted before yesterday’s announcement that Sarah Palin was not planning to run for President. October 6th, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA – BOOM! announces the results of DECISION 2012, the comic book industry’s first straw poll:…
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MINDY NEWELL: American Reinvention
Today, as I write this, is September 11, 2011. Ten years. The World Trade Center. The Pentagon. Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I’m watching the memorial services. Tom Brokaw, David Gregory on NBC and MSNBC. Anderson Cooper and Candy Crowley on CNN. President Obama with Michelle and President George W. Bush with Laura. Mayor Bloomberg. Rudy Giuliani. Vice…
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The Green Lantern theory of Politics and the Presidency
During the Bush years, Yglesias coined the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics to mock conservatives who believed that “[t]he only thing limiting us is a lack of willpower” in foreign policy. What he identifies here is nothing less than a Green Lantern theory of the presidency in which all domestic policy compromises are attributed to…
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MINDY NEWELL: Where’s Superman When You Really Need Him?
Apparently, I can run for mayor of New York City because – to paraphrase Sarah Palin – I can see New York from my house. I live in Bayonne, NJ, across the Hudson from the city, about two miles from Lower Manhattan as the crow flies, and on a good day, and if I judge…
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MINDY NEWELL: What If? Just Imagine!
A little over a week ago, the United States of America was on the verge of defaulting for the first time in its history. The chaos isn’t over – witness the roller coaster ride of the stock market over the last seven days – but that week the pundits on radio, on Fox and MSNBC…
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Monday Mix-Up: Congratulations, New York!
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced passage of the Marriage Equality Act by a margin of 33 to 29, granting same-sex couples the freedom to marry under the law. New York is the sixth and largest state to approve gay marriage, effectively doubling the number of Americans living in states with the freedom to…
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Must There Be An “American Way”?
By now, you’ve probably heard about the controversy– ZOMG SUPERMAN RENOUNCES AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP!!! A lot of people are taking this panel at right from Action Comics #900 out of context. For me, I always thought that “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” was a bit redundant. At least, I hoped that it was, because that…
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Swipe File: Rep. Paul Ryan and Gary “Smiler” Callahan
Swipe File is normally Rich Johnston’s beat, but since he’s not into American politics, he might not catch this one. On the left is Gary Callahan, a.k.a. The Smiler, from Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s Transmetropolitan. On the right is U.S. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee and who we should…
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Chicago’s new mayor isn’t the fake one we actually wanted.
Listen up, you mutha-cluckers… Chicago has a new boss in town. Why does this matter to you? Because I said so. Why did I say so? Because the Second City is known for a few big things: The Chicago Style Hot Dog, Deep Dish Pizza, Da ’85 Bears, and maybe just an eensy-bit of good…
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Beware the Tides of March… err… Bill O’Reilly
So, not so long ago, the American Atheist Group decided to buy a few billboards. So their president, one David Silverman, wanted to perhaps start a national debate on religion. Good idea? Well, we’ll leave that one up to the Lord (be it Allah, Ganesha, Buddha, Yahweh, Inky the Magical Leprechaun, or Stan Lee if…
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How Comics Inspired the Egyptian Revolution
Jesse Singal at The Boston Globe points to the Comics Alliance blog post connecting “The Montgomery Story,” a comic book that relates Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience (particularly as it pertained to the Montgomery bus strike) to the recent non-violent revolution in Egypt: Dalia Ziada, Egypt Director of the American Islamic…
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