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It's always interesting when effectiveness and ignorance are confused, though admittedly the latter sometimes does have the appearance of the former. It's also rather amusing with otherwise educated folks can't distinguish between them due to "principle". Such lack of subtlety usually makes for fine orthodoxies and fundamentalists, but then of course you become no different then what you rail against. A lack of subtly makes you no different than what your rail against? What kind of absolute, meaningless bullshit are you trying to foist on us this time? A lack of subtly gets the message out successfully. Artists have done a remarkable and very effective job (um...we're talking about it on an obscure climbing forum, duh) of exposing the religious tyranny of a minority of Muslims for what it is. It's a job politicians are often too hamstringed to do, but it needs to be done, nonetheless. Your conflation of the two sides (they're both fundamentalists, right?) is a tired, tired, rhetorical trick, and one that is much overused by the far Right. Fortunately, there probably isn't a poster here who's dumb enough to buy it. There's a slight difference between a cartoonist willing to remove the religious cloak from usurpation, corruption, and tyranny and the death-threat-issuing tyrants themselves. GET FUCKING REAL, and stop insulting our intelligence with this kind of crap. I know you hate losing an argument (you may not even believe such an eventuality is even possible), but your desperation here is, frankly, embarrassing. You can do better than that. Finally, which 'delicate flowers' are you protecting, Joseph? Do you even know?

The only way to deal with a bully is to call his bluff. That's precisely why our artists SHOULD expose these totalitarian fuckers for what they really are. From a historical standpoint, the prohibition regarding the depiction of Mojo has nothing to do with the Koran or Islam. It's a completely man-made construct designed for crowd control through intimidation, and it begs for a punch in the fucking face as often and possible. This issue is about people who choose to be assholes under the guise of a religion they reinvented, not beliefs. It's not about respect, it's about exposing the usurpation and corruption of a religion for political gain. We should not respect such beliefs: we should deplore them.

you missed yer calling...not sure what it shoulda been, but something... That's got performance artist written all over it.

screw loose

Fucking idol worshippers deserve ebbyting dey get.

I believe the principle is "Hey, humorless, religious fundamentalists: Kiss my ass!" a principle I wholeheartedly agree with.

spinyogacize

If I had to go through life not offending anyone... ...yeah...not good.

If she says "no doll", you can respond with "no vibrators". You'll get your doll.

I can haz pork?

The cartoonist should have posted her contest on CC, where you can't swing a really large house cat without hitting a death threat.

Yet more proof that some people are more trouble dead than alive.

If Zombie Jesus and Bobblehead Mohammed went mano a mano, who would win?

New Yorker article. They don't lie that much.

I don't know. The Feds shut a 'copper mine' down that was melting down pre 83 pennies cuz they're worth nearly 2 cents each. No fraud there.

PAAARRR-DAYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Oh, I almost forgot... ...HEY SNUGTOP, SHOW US YER TITS!!!!!!

Yeah, you're young. Lessons to learn, me boy, lessons to learn.

She looks fun to hang around with.

Boy, I can't wait to find out even more cool stuff about George W. Bush.

the 'fun to hang around with' attribute seems to be missing. Nice boobs, legs, and asses are a dime a dozen.

What, you want a cabinet picked from the progressive world? Is there a progressive out there who would deign to accept such impure livelihood? Can anyone even find a progressive leader? I know there are plenty of progressive committee chairpersons and facilitators out there, but if a progressive leader could be found, what, exactly, would they be leader of? The blogosphere? Is there a progressive out there who's actually run anything...besides Ben & Jerry that is, but they'd hardly be poster children for the 'eat right' movement. If Congress established an official peanut gallery it might provide a real opportunity for progressives to enter government and begin to effect that revolutionary sea change they yearn for, you know, the crystalline moment when humanity finally wakes up! and sheds the shackles of their former ignorance en masse. That moment when we can finally TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.

Well, the issue is about restricting labeling in other countries, but whatever. It's very easy to eat healthy, both for yourself and the environment, these days. You don't need GMO labeling to do it.

It's not worth expending an ounce of political capital or emotion over a faux fight that is destined for certain defeat. What, so you can 'hold Obama's feet to the fire?' That's not political advocacy, that's ego. Go work on something where you have a prayer of changing the outcome. This overblown issue is just standard, ambient political friction. All heat, no light. BTW, what actual 'work' ARE you guys doing on this issue, besides posting shit in spray?

It's not worth expending an ounce of political capital or emotion over a faux fight that is destined for certain defeat. What, so you can 'hold Obama's feet to the fire?' That's not political advocacy, that's ego. Go work on something where you have a prayer of changing the outcome. This overblown issue is just standard, ambient political friction. All heat, no light.