Month: March 2005

Over on the Dixonverse.net board, an interesting discussion has cropped up involving CBG columnists and the ostensible politicization thereof. Which is remarkably hilarious since CBG editor Maggie Thompson actually bends over backwards to AVOID political content.

John Jackson Miller’s article “Blue States vs. Red States” is falsely described as a political polemic touting Blue State superiority. It is, in fact,a detailed and thoughtful analysis of how comic book sales and existing stores break down along geographic lines, and even features a lengthy sidebar interview with a retailer who is not only a huge advocate of labeling, but laments “Comics do not reflect mid-American culture.” The same poster then goes on to say that I compare the “fight” of the CBLDF in Georgia to the censorship of the Nazis, and then complains about “clueless, elitist artists.” Chuck Dixon also weighed in to complain about how politics or political views had no place in comics centering on the adventures of costumed iconic superheroes. In case anyone’s interested–and since it’s come to my attention that folks hereabouts seem to like political discussion–this is what I wrote in response to the guy complaining about clueless artists:

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Since this is related to the case but a tangent, I’ll post it separately since it could likely engender a whole different discussion.

What occurs to me is that if the person in a coma were one half of a gay married couple, if the spouse were advocating that all extreme measures SHOULD be taken to keep the comatose mate going, and it was the parents who were saying the patient should be starved to death…

Congress wouldn’t touch it with a ten meter cattle prod.

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Several years ago, I had a living will done up. If the worst should happen, I’m never going to have to concern myself that politicians, like leeches, will attach themselves to my case the way they have with poor Terri Schiavo. Screaming hypocrites who consider all life sacred–unless, of course, we’re bombing it into oblivion or consigning it to death row for execution.

Yes, friends, the US government–the one that the GOP claims they want to keep out of people’s lives–just loves mixing into people’s deaths, setting the calendar on life termination and making sure that no one, absolutely no one, dies before the government is ready to send them to their deaths personally.

I strongly suggest to any and all reading this that you decide one way or the other while you still can. If you want to insist your family takes whatever measures possible to continue your life, even if medical science says it’s hopeless, then make that clear in writing. If, like me, you don’t want to burden your family and force them to watch you lie there like a slab of meat, consigning you all to a sort of twilight zone holding pattern for year after year after year, then make that clear as well.

Don’t leave it in the hands of politicians, lawyers, judges, and, God forbid, a Bush.

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Ariel wrapped up her stint as Golde in “Fiddler,” and acquitted herself wonderfully. And we’re almost done with the steady flow of visitors who have been coming through since last Monday. It’s not that we don’t love seeing parents and my older daughters, because obviously we do. But, boy, it makes you realize how relatively quiet it is around here under normal circumstances.

Looking forward to watching PBA Bowling today at 12:30. History in the making as a woman bowler made the cut for the first time and will be competing on the main Sunday broadcast. It’s Liz Johnson, whom Ariel met and bowled with back when the Women’s Int’l Bowling Association was on tour. So naturally we’ll be pulling for her.

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Part three of “Tempest Fugit” hits the stores this week. Whad’ja think?

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At least that is the jury decision in regards to Robert Blake, who was just found not guilty of killing his wife.

Now I haven’t been following the case because, unlike the OJ case, it hasn’t been splashed all over the newspapers here. So I don’t know if the prosecution truly failed to prove its case or if what went through the jury’s mind was, “We really don’t want to convict Bobby Blake on evidence any less than five people seeing him empty a gun into her, and besides which the victim was a skank.”

However, I feel fairly confident in saying that the defendant kept his eye on the sparrow when the going got narrow.

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Things are hopping here at Casa David. I just finished proofreading the galleys for the “Fantastic Four” novel (which included such entertaining typos as the brand new word “seeriously.” I like it. I’m going to use that in a ‘Sir Apropos of Nothing’ story someday. “Yes, I can read the future,” he said seeriously.)

Meanwhile Ariel’s school production of “Fiddler on the Roof” goes up this Thursday. So both her older sisters and my parents are going to be coming in to see her, and Kath’s parents simply happen to be in town and are visiting. Thus we’ve got a pretty constant flow of visitors coming and going.

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