http://truex.org Tue, 26 May 2009 01:53:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every time comics become a little more accepted in the overall zeitgeist, the more often I wonder if the medium's traditional madness will be smoothed over. Most comic covers have already ditched exposition and teasers in favor of character poses and mid-fight snapshots. Now this? That's a fucking cover. It's a ... http://truex.org/2009/05/25/dynamite-joe/ Huh, so this is a thing that happened today. President Obama Nominates Potential 2012 GOP Opponent to be Ambassador to China In the White House's Diplomatic Room, this morning, President Obama announced that he would nominate one of his potential 2012 Republican opponents, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to be Ambassador to China.... During ... http://truex.org/2009/05/16/utah-to-china/ I have no clue where this image comes from, but I am goddamn sure that having a Rushmore golem patrolling the countryside cannot possibly go terribly wrong. This is the future of politics, people. http://truex.org/2009/04/28/rushmore-risen/ It turns out the fellow who draws Mother Goose and Grimm also draws editorial cartoons. The daily strip is an exercise in the banal, but the editorial cartoons are actually pretty good. http://truex.org/2009/04/24/mother-goose-and-what/ It's strange watching the right-wing attempt to protest; their heart is in it, but they don't know what they're actually supposed to do. To be fair, the right isn't any better than the left at staying on message. http://truex.org/2009/04/15/off-message/ http://truex.org/2009/04/09/an-amero/ This is the gastric-brooding frog, also known as the Platypus frog. There were two species of these things, and in both cases the female frog would swallow the fertilized eggs. The tadpole would then develop into a frog while in the female's stomach. These little weirdos went extinct sometime in ... http://truex.org/2009/04/04/poor-platypus-frog/ http://truex.org/2009/04/02/canada-meets-america/ I took a few moments to plug my current Twitter feed into the sidebar. The individual entries don't look quite right, but I'll need to poke at some of feed's Javascript to fix it. If I get particularly bored I might even throw in an expanding pane to display ... http://truex.org/2009/03/23/pointless-twitter-widget/ People are pretty damn good at ignoring ads, since there's no longer any (sane) way to avoid them. The cold-war response is to make the ads louder and more obnoxious, which only makes the occasional clever and well-executed ad all the more surprising – It took me a moment for everything ... http://truex.org/2009/03/17/good-ad-dog/