Comments on: This Week’s Bouts!

by: Zod

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:46:22 +0000

Why do you say this to me, when you know that I will kill you for it?

by: Todd Seavey

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:23:25 +0000

And this may be as good a time as any to plug my friend Julian Sanchez’s article on political trends in comic books:

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_revolt_of_the_comic_boooks

by: Todd Seavey

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:20:38 +0000

Can’t be much worse than Luthor’s short-lived presidential administration a few years back — but since we already have (as noted in the entry above) the villainous Triangulator and Flip-Flopper poised to lead their respective parties, I am reluctant to see them joined by another candidate as amorphous as Zod — who has gone from Kryptonian general to Pocket Universe inhabitant to ancient-Kryptonian illusion created by Brainiac to unreal Phantom Zone denizen to Russian autocrat and back to Kryptonian general again (albeit with more cinematically-influenced cronies and a son).

Zod’s history, like Hillary’s financial records and Romney’s conservative credentials, keeps getting rewritten, leaving us asking: Who is the real Zod? I simply don’t trust him or know what to believe anymore.

But if Ron Paul doesn’t do surprisingly well in the early primaries, I’ll pragmatically reassess my options.

by: D------

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:57:39 +0000

Would you consider supporting this candidate, http://www.zod2008.com/ ?

by: Todd Seavey

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:45:42 +0000

One more thing: Andrew Sullivan (who also linked to that Levy post on Fawkes) posted an item about how George Washington banned the celebration of Guy Fawkes Day during the Revolution, since it was a celebration of (Catholic terrorist) Fawkes’ _defeat_ by the very same British government Washington hoped to rally various sects, including some Canadians, against:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/george-washingt.html

So Washington was riled enough by the (statist-seeming, anti-Catholic) holiday to suppress it, while Ron Paul supporters were excited enough by the same (anarchist-seeming) holiday to make it their rallying time, while also no doubt being gung-ho Washington fans.

And who wouldn’t a be a Washington fan, come to think of it, given the facts about him noted in this short educational video clip Christopher brought to my attention some time ago:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PsymvcqVc1s

by: Christopher

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:03:11 +0000

I blame Guy Fawkes and Alan Moore for your confusion.

But seriously, I wonder how Giuliani feels about Robertson agreeing with Falwell that God allowed the 9/11 attacks because of the gays and abortionists.

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:15:46 +0000

Wait a second — all right, now I’ve lost track of which side I’m on. Nobody move.

by: D------

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:07:43 +0000

I guess for the good Rev., expanding the war in the Middle East is a greater priority than overturning Roe v. Wade and other idiotic Supreme Court decisions that take authority away from Congress and the state and local legislatures.

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:04:10 +0000

And now Pat Robertson endorses pro-choice Giuliani — think about that for a moment. Nay, think about that for a few hours, weird though it may be…

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:56:58 +0000

And on a more radical anti-statist note, sort of, Jacob Levy, mentioned above as a liberal-leaning libertarian and alluded to in my anti-theocrat Comment, has a blog entry about the weirdly double-quasi-inverted symbolism of Fawkes/V/Paul, historically speaking — and it very much ties into the theocracy issue:

http://jacobtlevy.blogspot.com/2007/11/remember-remember-by-now-youve-heard.html