Recent Blog Posts
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Beyond Boobs n’ Butts
The creator of a fictional character can make that character what the creator wants. Obvious, right? If you’re an author or an artist (or both), and you invent a character to be in the story you tell, you can make that character look and behave however you see fit. The only limits are in your…
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It’s my Grand Old Party and I’ll lie if I want to (even if it leads to terrorism)
The claim that abortion is baby-murder hasn’t worked. More Americans are now pro-choice than pro-life. Most Americans also support the federal government continuing to fund Planned Parenthood, knowing that some Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortions. There could be many reasons for that. Maybe they know that abortions are only 3% of the services Planned Parenthood…
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Conservative fantasy vs. reality, pt. 3
I took the “most likely” out, because this is just reality. Dan Lietha’s comic about Planned Parenthood: My response: The facts: Planned Parenthood services help prevent approximately 516,000 unintended pregnancies each year. Planned Parenthood provides nearly 400,000 Pap tests and nearly 500,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting cancer. Planned Parenthood provides nearly…
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Rearranged pond scum
I decided to go for a reductio ad absurdum this time. This cartoon has an identified author/artist– hooray! Dan Lietha does the CreationWise cartoon for Answers in Genesis, and that link and his Facebook page both have treasure troves of fatuous nonsense in comic form. It’s a common trope of evangelical glurge to portray atheists…
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Conservative fantasy vs. most likely reality, pt. 2
I decided that depicting a more realistic version of a conservative cartoon was pretty fun, and decided to take another crack at it. Original: My revamp: