Day: August 31, 2004

…I respected the hëll out of George W. Bush.

Really. No kidding. When he stated in an interview “I don’t think we can win” the war on terror, I was staggered. Because he was right, and because he was honest, and because he was making a reasoned evaluation of something that anyone with two licks of sense could have told him.

The “let’s declare war on something” mentality reduces complex issues to stark black and white terms that can’t begin to encompass the reality of the situation. And when Bush fessed up that the war on terror was, in essence, no more “winnable” than the war on drugs or the war on poverty, I thought, Wow. Okay. Maybe he’s really learning. Maybe he really is capable of growth in a way that his fixed “stay the course” mentality would make you think he’s not.

And the Democrats went to town comparing terrorism to the Soviet Union which, by the way, self-destructed, and the fall of Communism which, last I checked, is still around. And I thought, “That’s just stupid. This is another of those embarrassed-to-be-a-Democrat moments. How can they pounce on him when he’s so indisputably RIGHT?”

So what happened? Bush flip flopped. Suddenly the war on terrorism IS winnable, yes siree, don’t you believe anything else.

Oh well. Back to status quo.

PAD

We’re working on it. (Grumblegrumblegrumble)

Just what the title says. Go to www.comicsworthreading.com. Johanna Draper Carlson, whose website it is, is holding a contest wherein you can win various “Fallen Angel”-related stuff, including a signed copy of the trade.

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I, along with a lot of other folks, have been approached about doing contributions to a humor “What If…?” I’m pleased to say that Bendis liked one of my suggestions…which I figure doesn’t guarantee anything, but hey, it was nice to be thought of.

I won’t tell you the ones I know for a fact they’re already doing or the one of mine that he liked. Sadly, he passed on the one that was my favorite: “What if Black Bolt Had Turretts Syndrome?” Admittedly it was a long shot since it’s pretty…oh, what’s the word? Tasteless. Yeah, that’s it. It’s pretty tasteless, and insensitive, and probably wouldn’t have flown with upper management anyway. But just imagine the possibilities…

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