A federal judge in Florida has agreed with a federal judge in Virginia that Obamacare, passed into law by Congress, is unconstitutional.
Well, we all know just how angry the right wing talking heads get when it comes to activist judges endeavoring to countermand laws approved by the representatives of the people!
Go get ’em, Fox News!
PAD
Originally published September 23, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1088
It has been several years since “Name Withheld” crawled out from under his rock, announced anonymously in Oh So? that writers had outlived their usefulness in comics and that artists no longer had need of them, and then scuttled back away into darkness.
In more recent times, the artist behind said letter has been a bit more forthcoming about his authorship (although he has yet, to my knowledge, to explain his base cowardice in the matter). I don’t mention him by name because lately he’s been working overtime to provoke me into giving him publicity… apparently on the assumption that McFarlane was able to, so therefore he should be entitled, too.
I only mention him in order to set the stage for the advent for a soul mate. This newcomer is one John Kricfalusi, best known as the (eventually cast-out) creator of Ren and Stimpy.
For the past month, the CW has been advertising that we’d have new episodes of “Smallville” and “Supernatural” on the 28th of January.
So imagine my surprise to discover that they’re airing “Vampire Diaries” and “Nikita,” even though my DVR is still under the impression that it’s recording the originally intended programs.
Anyone else got this on their local stations? Anyone know what the hëll is going on?
PAD
The SyFy channel is doing another “Green Hornet” marathon from now through to 6 PM.
UPDATE:Apparently they will be doing another marathon on Wednesday, February 9th. So nobody gets to say I didn’t give them enough warning this time.
2ND UPDATE: As I’ve been watching the marathon today, they keep advertising a made for Syfy film called “Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.” And every time I look at the logo, it reads to me as “Monty Python vs. Gatorade.” I swear, if that’s what it was actually called, I’d watch.
PAD
Me, I was walking into the office of my boss in the Marvel direct sales office, moving with the speed and grace of a zombie. Carol looked up at me and saw that I was ashen. “What’s wrong?” she said.
“The Challenger blew up,” I said. My then-wife had been watching the launch on television and had called me, sobbing, telling me the news. We didn’t know at the time that it hadn’t actually blown up so much as it had been shaken apart.
Word sped quickly through the Marvel offices and I had plenty of zombie friends for the rest of that day. The shuttle had been very much in the news, mostly because of the presence of teacher Christa McAuliffe. Years later, Bill Mumy (who had at least some experience with space travel, albeit fictional) and I would memorialize her in our small way by naming the good ship Christa after her in the TV series Space Cases.
To anyone old enough to remember it, it’s just one of those snapshot moments in your head, where you recall exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard.
PAD
Originally published September 16, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1087
Well, I was wrong about something.
Unfortunately, my mistake is not something about which a lot of folks are going to be particularly pleased.
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been discussing Seduction of the Innocent (the infamous anti-comics tract by Dr. Fredric Wertham) and the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency in the United States—specifically, the subcommittee’s investigation into comics.
We’re all officially impressed. You’re the Top Man, the Big Kahuna. We get it. You’ve proven your point.
Now enough with the snow already.
PAD
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