Dadmocracy

The site is up! Doesn’t look like much, and there’s only one comic, but anyway…

Yay. Go me!

Here’s an excerpt from a great article I read by Andrew Klavan comparing The Dark Knight to our current administration’s war on terror. Check out the piece in its entirety and my review of the movie:

“There seems to me no question that the Batman film The Dark Knight, currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society — in which people sometimes make the wrong choices — and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

The Dark Knight, then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year’s 300, The Dark Knight is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for beans.

Conversely, time after time, left-wing films about the war on terror — films like In The Valley of Elah, Rendition and Redacted — which preach moral equivalence and advocate surrender, that disrespect the military and their mission, that seem unable to distinguish the difference between America and Islamo-fascism, have bombed more spectacularly than Operation Shock and Awe.”

Yes, I’m going to use the H-word. Dadmocracy, and pretty much all my tooning except for the paying gig, will be taking a small hiatus of 2-3 weeks. However, I have some great news to go along with that: as of September, I will have a schedule change at my day job to where I will be working 4 10-hour days, Tues-Fri. On Mondays, I will have a designated chunk of time that I can actually “go to work” at my drawing table. I will be able to treat the cartooning as a job (in letter if not in spirit), and have scheduled drawing time, instead of stealing it from my sleep time as I’ve been doing for so long. As of that point I foresee regular updating with no more flakiness on my part.

In the meantime, if any of my readers who are fellow webcomickers would like to throw some guest art my way, I wouldn’t be disagreeable to posting it. I know with school starting it’s not the best time in the world, though. We’ll get through the drawing drought together, I promise…

First, I need to mention that I am extremely proud to be able to see my country elect its first African-American president. I recognize this as a historic election that many people thought would never be able to happen. You done good, ‘Bama.

It would be much happier for me if he had any policies that I agreed with, though. Wealth redistribution, nationalized health care, withdrawing from Iraq on his own timetable…with Democratic control of Congress, I am extremely apprehensive about what the next four years will bring. Here’s hopin’…

Update: In the spirit of bipartisanship, Obama has selected Rahm “Republicans can go f— themselves” Emanuel as his chief of staff.

I’m feeling more and more like Iowahawk…

The mayor of Batman, Turkey is suing Warner Brothers and Christoper Nolan for royalties from The Dark Knight, which “used the name of [their] city without informing” them. It only took them around 70 years to notice they were getting ripped off…

Hey you guys, go check out superobamaworld.com! You too can play as the supreme presidential messiah in a Mario-esque Alaskan landscape. Watch out for pigs with lipstick, money-bag weilding Bush, and Sarah Palin pushing a clothes rack as you avoid the bridge to nowhere. Fun stuff.

Yes, I am back from my unannounced month-long hiatus to bring a tale of Christmas pageantry. Regular updates shall resume forthwith!

Christmas was tons of fun. Our kids are 9, 6, and 3 and we still have to wake them up on Christmas morning to discover their loot (not that I’m complaining).

We went to visit mine and my wife’s families both today, for wonderful bouts of excitement and craziness followed by blessed relaxation and delectable food. The prime rib at my mom’s was TO DIE FOR. So much for keeping off the pounds…

Alrighty then, we have a new president! The inauguration speech was a’ight. A phrase or two did stick with me:

“The question we ask today is not whether our Government is too big or too small, but whether it works…”

Um, no, I’m definitely still asking that question, Mr. President. Got anything else?

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history.”

“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility…”

Holy crap am I gonna hold you to those…Good luck, President Obama. I will be praying for you.

Kicking off the new “Era of Responsibility”:
Tax-evader Timothy Geitner is going to be the new Treasury Secretary! When you run the IRS there’s a slim chance of getting audited again…

“During the hothouse days of the presidential campaign, Joe Wurzelbacher became famous because he got Barack Obama to confess that he likes to spread the wealth around. Better known as Joe the Plumber, the Toledo, Ohio, laborer became the target of bottomless venom and scorn because he seemed like an obstacle to Obama’s coronation.

One of the main talking points, particularly among left-wing bloggers, was that Wurzelbacher was a tax cheat because, it was revealed by ABC News, he had a tax lien of $1,182 for back Ohio state taxes. This fueled the argument that he was a fraud, his opinion didn’t matter. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Fast-forward to today. Timothy Geithner, President Obama’s choice to be the next treasury secretary, quite clearly tried to defraud the government of tens of thousands in payroll taxes while working at the International Monetary Fund. The IMF does not withhold such taxes but does compensate American employees who must pay them out of pocket. Geithner took the compensation — which involves considerable paperwork — but then simply pocketed the money…

I thought the Democrats believed the financial implosion was caused by arrogant and greedy men who thought the rules didn’t apply to them because they were so important. I guess they didn’t mean it.”

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