Repost: Equality worth working for

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”  — Martin Luther King, Jr. The true meaning, mind you– not merely what is reflected in […]

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Further adventures in learning to draw using layers — Blackbeard

Blackbeard is based on this image, apparently an entrant in a contest to be a card in Brain Vessel’s Kickstarter project to make a deck of Seven Seas Playing Cards. I saw it on Justin Robert Young’s Facebook page and had to draw it.

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Prude vs. Feminist: A field guide

Obligatory disclaimer: This is a comic. It includes generalizations. Obviously there is significant variation among both prudes and feminists, and occasionally overlap between them. I have, though, quite frequently seen the two confused. And I decided that “sex positive” and “sex negative” don’t do enough to describe the difference between […]

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Common Ground

In formal logic, a premise is a plank of an argument. If your premises are true and the form of your argument is valid, then your argument is sound. 1. All men are mortal.2. Socrates is a man.3. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. If you’re trying to persuade someone of your […]

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