Episode 2476 - Friday, March 29, 1985

The failing New York Times is so dishonest; they haven't mentioned our podcast once even though every American loves it. Sad!Anyway, we talkin' about stuff in this podcast. Mainly Dolly Parton.Today's strip

22 Nov 201619min

If you're listening to this podcast and you should happen to be the sort of person who, let's say, is Dilbert creator Scott Adams, I highly recommend skipping ahead to about the 5:30 mark. What's in those first few minutes you ask? Look, it doesn't matter really, nothing too terribly interesting or insightful. Point is, those first five minutes just aren't for you, Scott Adams. They're for someone else.Today on the program we discuss Frank Sinatra, perambulatory ice cream, obscenity laws in the 1970s, and Garfield's role as a vehicle for identity politics.Today's strip

21 Nov 201617min

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.--- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Acceptance SpeechMy audio is pretty awful this episode. But that didn't stop us from talking about Garfield at OBSCENE length!Today's strip:

20 Nov 201640min

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.--Frederick Douglass, "If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress"The end of today's episode is all fucked up because I had some audio trouble, but, honestly, it had probably gone on long enough already. Also, #where'sgarfield?Today's strip:

19 Nov 201616min

In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.--- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of TotalitarianismToday's strip:

18 Nov 201620min

So, y'all following @sarahkendzior on Twitter? You should do that.Anyway, today's episode features further discussion of Garfield's butthole. People really seem to love it when we talk about Garfield's butthole. Plus, an Alfred Hitchcock reference! That might help you briefly forget that America has descended into a white supremacist fever dream.Today's strip:

17 Nov 201618min

Look, I know Michael Moore totally called it this year, even predicted the critical upper Midwest flip, and most of the rest of us got it wrong, but I still haven't forgiven that slovenly bastard for convincing me to vote for Nader in 2000. I was young and impressionable and he should not have done that!Today's strip:

16 Nov 201618min

So have you guys read Masha Gessen's "Autocracy: Rules for Survival"? Definitely worth checking out. Possibly more important than listening to this podcast.Today's strip:

15 Nov 201615min