CSotD: Moments of Truth
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Let's warm up with Wumo, which raises the question, if this is what Heaven is like, how bad could Hell be?
Maybe the one in Hell asks for specific dates, credit card numbers, etc.
And note that the one for Heaven is on a clipboard. The one in Hell is on-line, which sounds much better — they don't have a box of golf pencils on the counter — until you notice that the bar at the top which tells how far you've gotten in the process is calibrated for Eternity and never actually moves.
And, speaking of infernal systems, I'm not convinced Keef understands how the business works.
Regular printer companies don't sell printers. They sell ink. The printers are simply the tools with which people piss away the ink so that they need to buy more.
Similarly, I would assume that 3D printer companies are in the business of selling … goop. Whatever you call the plastic stuff that goes in them.
Nobody in a Gold Rush gets rich by finding gold. The guys who get rich in a Gold Rush do so by selling shovels and maps.
And, in today's Buckets, Greg Cravens suggests that you can simply figure it all out from the comfort of your Barcalounger, if you apply a little thought to what you're seeing.
And, y'know, strip away all the fun, romance and intrigue.
There should be a Spoilsport Index, with simple practicality — the money is in the goop, not the printer — at the bottom, and true, nasty spoilsporting like this much closer to the top.
Then again, there is spoilsporting and there is media literacy, and, while you don't have to blurt out the truth about Santa and the Easter Bunny as soon as they enter your kid's consciousness, there is a point where you have to set the little tyke straight, for his own future and that of the nation.
Particularly when, as today's Andertoons suggests, there are so many predators poised to exploit your kids, and you.
A few Paperbag Princesses and Fiona Shreks sneak through the net, but there is a huge industry based on the idea that you can still have all the fantasy benefits of being beautiful and privileged and superficially special, as long as you maintain that cocked-eyebrow consciousness with which Pixar artists offset the insipid generic sameness of their female characters.
There was, initially, a lot of fury when feminism was co-opted by Virginia Slims, though it seemed equally divided over the preservation of the super-skinny super-model image, the encouragement to tempt cancer and the trivialization of women's history.
We seem to have gotten over it.
We've gotten over a lot of things that required you to look behind the curtain.
Donald Trump has been repeatedly attacked for having taken a student deferment when he was a student, which, at the time, was simply what about a third of young men in that age group did but which now turns out to have been draft-dodging.
That would likely come as news to the many who, following graduation, went into the armed forces and served, like Lt. Jeff Danziger who racked up a Bronze Star and an Air Medal in Vietnam.
And who might possibly have given Trump a pass on the Bad History issue of "taking four student deferments" if the damn fool had simply kept his mouth shut.
Someone once said of Andrew Jackson that, when ol' Andy talks about hangin', you'd better start lookin' for rope. Well, when the topic is Vietnam, don't expect to get a lot of slack from Jeff Danziger.
Juxtaposition of the Today I Settle All Family Business
Today's comics section seems to include a lot of clean-up work and clearing of decks over at King Features.
Probably a good time to add some strips to your daily menu, since renewal appears to be on the not-too-distant horizon for this crew and who knows what other strips?
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