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I love this music video by The Decemberists. 16 Military Wives. Good music, funny and clever video. Fans of the band probably saw it back in March when it was released. I just saw it, heard another one of their songs, and decided to buy their cd "Picaresque". Probably the best new band I've heard in years.

This is got to be one of the most idiotic political cartoons I've ever seen. Wright's point is that Saddam Hussein is a liar. Really insightful. Though it's not just the premise, it's how he expressed it. He uses crosses to symbolize Muslim deaths. Jackass.

I've been wanting to do this post for months. Mike Lester has got to be one of the worst editorial cartoonists in the country. His cartoons are always hacky and he's not even a good artist. Chuck Asay is occasionally hacky but I respect him as a talented artist artist. As for Mike Lester, the hole in the face for a mouth and squigly lines for hair amounts to the ability and technique you'd expect from a second grader.

As I've already stated, it took me a while to finally do this post. Almost all his cartoons are hacky, but this particular one was just so over the top asinine that I had to comment on it.

What is Lester trying to say with this cartoon? He's stating that it's better to pick a friend for a position of power that will effect 300 million American lives for multiple decades. Though he's not just saying the best person for the job is a friend, his cartoon basically ridicules anyone who disagrees with him. Picking a complete stranger? What a ridiculous idea! Idiot.

I have a cousin who's pretty good at soccer, best player I know. Though if I was in charge of creating the U.S. national soccer team I wouldn't pick him, I'd pick strangers. Loyalty does not make up for lack of experience, that was made very clear with Brownie's miserable failings. At the very least her relationship to the president should be a non factor, but to assert that it's a qualification is absurd.