Wow, there’s a whole lot of unfunny in them there cartoons!

These jokers really don’t grasp the whole concept of “Judge”, do they?

I think the implication is that judges having empathy means that the traditional blindfold of justice is removed, and she is blinking because she’s unused to seeing the light. Hard to say for sure, as they are all so very very bad.

They still think the whole “judges must be objective” thing is going to be a winner for them with big albatrossi named Alito and Thomas hanging around their necks, eh?

Bring it on, wingnuts.

Breaking news, wingnuts are inhuman bastards.

And as that page also reveals (or rather reminds), they are incapable of arguing their position with even a shred of honesty.

I thought justice was blind, not blonde.

I’m off on a quest to find a funny loonycon and be some time.

The only allowable influence on the scales of justice is the heavy corporate finger pulling down the right side.

I never knew that about Fiorello LaGuardia reading the cartoons over the air – only the Firesign Theatre sketch from Dear Friends where Mayor Dropyour LaGuardia reads Maggie and Jiggs on the occasion of the end of WWI. “Open your papers, kids, to Monday, November 11, 1918, San Francisco Examiner. …”

Never let it be said that this site lacks educational value!

Thanks to S,N! I know all about dim-witted badgers and rabid pelicans.

Damn, those cartoons are horrible.

Shhh!

Nobody tell them she’s a dike.

If I follow this argument along it seems to be that “ONLY elderly white males are sufficiently cold-hearted to Supreme Court Justices”?

Is that teh Gist?

lost a be, so careful.

The auto-erotic asphyxiation of justice. I would have done it in anime.

I thought justice was blind, not blonde.

Aparently there is Blonde Justice it is x rated and there is no image availlable.

You mean this, Sirius?

So, so, so, close to the Mekons title perhaps you mean “is not”?

Erm, yes, because in this country there is a long history of people of color lynching white people. Never the other way around.

He really brings the lulz on that one!

If only Solomon hadn’t had so much empathy, both those moms would have each gotten at least a half a baby.

If I follow this argument along it seems to be that “ONLY elderly white males are sufficiently cold-hearted to Supreme Court Justices”?

No, that’s only half the talking point. the other half is she’s a meanie.

It goes like this: “She’s too empathetic to be a judge, and she’s mean.”

It works better if you pound your head against the wall while saying it.

So, so, so, close to the Mekons title perhaps you mean “is not”?

The Mekons of Venice is my favorite play.

Wow, all of Toby’s cartoons are hilarious, and smartly subtle!

I think he also does political cartoons for The Onion.

Batocchio is right – simply horrible. Makes Chris Muir look like somebody who can draw.

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So, so, so, close to the Mekons title perhaps you mean “is not”?

So close to the what now?

I was going to cite the Onion too.

(Gosh I wish I knew how to do HTML formatting in these posts.)

More visually compact

That would have to be what you’ld do if you wanted to apply the “shorter” concept to cartoons. You’ld have to do a cartoon that captured the original cartoonist’s fatuousness with a few simple but bold strokes of an artist’s pen.

You’ld have to do a cartoon that captured the original cartoonist’s fatuousness with a few simple but bold strokes of an artist’s pen.

I recall a doodle in Breakfast of Champions that would work.

I think he also does political cartoons for The Onion.

Our local paper used to have a cartoonist who labeled literally everything in his cartoons, even more prodigiously than those Onion parodies. I’m talking that if he had a picture of the world, he would label it “Earth”.

I kinda like that. It’s like Richard Scarry books.

God damn it to hell, where the fuck is Gold Bug.

Here is a nice little story about empathy applied to justice.

I dare Gavin to shorterise a Heath Robinson cartoon.
[or ‘Rube Goldberg’, if you insist on me using the US spelling]

Heath Robinson

Does the stress fall on the first or second syllable of his first name?

Does the stress fall on the first or second syllable of his first name?

Tom Tom Club says second.

Re: “shorter” applied to cartoons – I think you only have to keep it under 1000 words per panel.

According to the laws of aphorism, a “shorter” version of a picture can contain up to 999 words.

Damn you, long-haired weirdo!

Tom Tom Club—unfit to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court due to funny surname pronunciation and insistence on singing the praises of a black Robinson when there are plenty of qualified white male Robinsons, but still the Talking Heads’ best work.

I kinda like that. It’s like Richard Scarry books.

But nary a Tyrolean hat in sight.

g beat me to the punch with the reference to Solomon, so I’ll just mention a BBBB favorite.

I’m thinking it’s like, EMPATHY is pulling her to the left? And Justice being a famously weak-willed figure just sorta leans over whichever way when you give her a push? In this case to the left, which symbolizes The Left? Although while it’s our left it’s really her right, and also kind of up due to the pulley, the purpose of which is unclear unless there’s a new political schema that uses two dimensions so like you could say someone was Upper-Left Wing? Which I guess would not be wholly unwelcome in that a little more nuance in our ideological descriptors seems kinda handy, although one has to suspect that that would just lead to three of the corners being subjected to hostile rebranding by the fourth to the point that the majority of people are just gonna say “independent” and no one knows what anything means, so exactly like it is now, is what I think I’m saying.

I’m with Sarcastro: a woman wearing a bandanna has got to be a Dike.

LittlePig, they also don’t grasp the concept of “cartoon”, either.

It’s no surprise that this guy sucks. Everyone knows that wingnuts are humor-, irony- and logic-impaired, and good political cartoons need at least two of the three.

Still, it’s quite an achievement to make Chris Muir look talented.

om Tom Club—unfit to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court due to funny surname pronunciation and insistence on singing the praises of a black Robinson when there are plenty of qualified white male Robinsons, but still the Talking Heads’ best work.

Heretic!

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this Shorter is, in some sense, shorter.

note to self: control-F not only “thousand” but “1000” (and “1,000”)