It made me smile, too. That soooo reminds me of Due South.
I don't know how much you follow American politics (I'm sure they're much more entertaining when they don't affect you quite as immediately - sort of like when I was growing up in Texas and watching Louisiana politics), but there was a hysterical "Sarah Palin's debate thought process" flow chart that was making the rounds. It was rather entertaining. But my favourite political cartoon of recent times is here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-tucker/luckovichs-lament-cartoon_b_147623.html), down at the bottom of the article, the one down at the bottom labeled "Day One." It's funny, in that heartstopping, almost tear-inducing kind of way for me.
I don't know how much you follow American politics
I follow all politics as little as possible, for all the good it does me - I still hear about politics all the time. Everyone's politics! There's no escaping it.
there was a hysterical "Sarah Palin's debate thought process" flow chart that was making the rounds
I saw that, and a vatiation where you made up your own Sarah Palin speeches by putting her phrases together randomly, sort of like fridge magnets.
the one down at the bottom labeled "Day One."
Oh, that's brilliant - and brought a lump even to my non-American throat. That's quality commentary, striking on many levels at once.
a vatiation where you made up your own Sarah Palin speeches by putting her phrases together randomly, sort of like fridge magnets.
Oh, I missed that! I kind of want one of those...
Isn't that Day One cartoon brilliant? I still get a lump in my throat looking at it, over a week later. I generally like Luckovich, and he is very good at that gut-punch, more profound than you were expecting kind of commentary.
The joy of the Luckovich cartoon is that it not only comments on our fears and hopes in 2008, but goes to the root of how Americans feel about their country and the things it means to them, and the terrible things that have happened to it, and how there is now a sense of hope, and a corner being turned.
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Date: 2008-12-15 09:45 pm (UTC)I don't know how much you follow American politics (I'm sure they're much more entertaining when they don't affect you quite as immediately - sort of like when I was growing up in Texas and watching Louisiana politics), but there was a hysterical "Sarah Palin's debate thought process" flow chart that was making the rounds. It was rather entertaining. But my favourite political cartoon of recent times is here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-tucker/luckovichs-lament-cartoon_b_147623.html), down at the bottom of the article, the one down at the bottom labeled "Day One." It's funny, in that heartstopping, almost tear-inducing kind of way for me.
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Date: 2008-12-15 10:47 pm (UTC)I follow all politics as little as possible, for all the good it does me - I still hear about politics all the time. Everyone's politics! There's no escaping it.
there was a hysterical "Sarah Palin's debate thought process" flow chart that was making the rounds
I saw that, and a vatiation where you made up your own Sarah Palin speeches by putting her phrases together randomly, sort of like fridge magnets.
the one down at the bottom labeled "Day One."
Oh, that's brilliant - and brought a lump even to my non-American throat. That's quality commentary, striking on many levels at once.
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Date: 2008-12-15 11:32 pm (UTC)Oh, I missed that! I kind of want one of those...
Isn't that Day One cartoon brilliant? I still get a lump in my throat looking at it, over a week later. I generally like Luckovich, and he is very good at that gut-punch, more profound than you were expecting kind of commentary.
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Date: 2008-12-16 01:52 am (UTC)