Banana Lover’s Day Cartoon

Normally a joke this bad would fit under the category of “Rejected Reader’s Digest Cartoons” but today happens to be National Banana Lover’s Day (no Susi NOT what you are thinking).  Interesting though, according to this list of food holidays, I did miss a golden opportunity for a cartoon on August 3 AKA  “Grab Some Nuts Day” 

Oh and if you don’t get the joke in today’s cartoon, please ask a 3rd grader to explain it to you.

To celebrate Banana Lover’s Day, some other cartoonists have done their own take on a Banana Gag.  Check them out and tell ‘em who sent you.

• The Wannabe Pirates
• Promises Promises
• Robot Beach
• Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
• Capes & Babes
• Life’s a Witch
• Neko the Kitty
• Familiar Ground

Always a Critic

A group of cartoony folks do something on twitter called #tuesdaysketch whereby someone sends out a topic and people sketch a cartoon under the theme.  

This week the topic was “muppets”.  Sometimes I wish I could be as honest and Waldorf and Statler. Check out all the entries at the Flickr Group.

Come back Friday for something I am postive will “A-Peel” to you.

Dr Laura and Free Speech Cartoon

Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by national radio host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who announced on Larry King last week that she was going to quit her show at the end of her contract (in four months) because she felt her free speech was being limited.  Seems few would accept her apology on the air for not only dropping the n-bomb multiple times during a call but actually told a black female caller that maybe she shouldn’t have married outside her race if she was “hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor.”

Now one thing I agree with Dr. Laura in her announcement to Larry King was when she used the phrase, “Debate don’t Eradicate” when it comes to speech you don’t believe in.  I think people tend to focus too much on what everyone else is doing and not enough on dealing with their own racist beliefs.  So if I can call you out as a racist before you can do it to me, I win because no one wants to defend themselves after being called a racist.

HOWEVER,

A.  Read the transcript of the call.  Not once did the caller ever get to finish any point because Dr. L constantly cut her off and didn’t listen to her entire example or point.  I get that radio hosts have to move things quickly but don’t complain about having your speech limited when you are in the power position.

B.  READ the TRANSCRIPT.  The arrogance that some people have that they assume with the power the hold.  Oh my.

C.  She was planning on not extending her contract prior to this incident.  So this just looks like grandstanding to me.

D.  She mentioned to Larry that even without radio she still has her website, podcasts, YouTube, books (and not mentioned were her speaking engagements) so is her speech really being limited?

E. Just because you have a 1st Amendment right to Free Speech in the United States, do NOT mean I can’t have an opposing opinion.  Yet people only think Free Speech applies to themselves and not the other guy.

Mosque “at” Ground Zero Cartoon

This was actually based on a conversation I had with someone about the proposed Mosque to be built a few blocks from Ground Zero in New York.  Unfortunately, as the media tends to do, they keep referring to the proposed center as the Mosque AT Ground Zero.  When I asked the person if they would be OK if the Mosque were built a few blocks away, she said yes.  I said, “well that’s the plan anyway”.  Then she backtracked and came up with more reasons why it shouldn’t be built.  To which I replied, “How far is far enough?”.

Matt Sledge of the Huffington Post did a nice article that showcased that you can’t see the proposed site from Ground Zero and even if you came via the subway, you would have to go out of your way to see the Mosque.  So for all the arguments against it, which I am open to discussing, can we at least agree that the Mosque will not be AT Ground Zero?

For those concerned about the impact of a sixteen story Mosque that close to ground zero, I have a simple solution.    Build a seventeen story Synagogue and an eighteen story Church right next door.

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