hey steve,

don't know if you ever visit altercation, but earlier this week eric alterman printed a letter of mine mentioning your blog (search for the word "skippy.")

premise of my letter: any blog name would make a good rock band name, and visa versa.

exception: any blog with the word 'pundit' in it would not make a good band name.

exception to the exception: vodka pundit would make a great band name.

"clears up everything" -- Yeah, that he's an idiot that doesn't know the meaning of axis.

Baghdad, Pyong Yang and Tehran? Cool. Makes perfect sense -- get the White House on the phone.

Maybe they're all bucking for the lucrative Arab News syndication project?

They'll never get it unless they rip on Jews in their pictures. Instead of three USA, put a UK and an Israel there with the mushroom clouds the shape of Arik Sharon's face or a Star of David.

anyone else seen the yahoo headline: "Millions Stop Work to Protest Iraq War"? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030314/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_world_protests_3

I think all the lazy Europeans are just looking for an excuse to get off work early at noon, to hell with protesting against war.

The USA was nuked three times (thus it's in the mushroom clouds), by an axis of evil?

The USA nuked someone three times, and IS the axis of evil (an axis of one?)? I can think of two, but where's the third?

USA bad?

I bet on the latter meaning.

Is that supposed to be a tornado or a lightning bolt? It's about the lamest drawing of a mushroom cloud I've ever seen. Looks like Conrad's artistic skills are on par with his intellectual ones.

There's a particularly hideous sculpture constructed of chain in front of one of our civic buildings here in Santa Monica. It bears a striking resemblance to the mushroom clouds in this cartoon. I'm fairly certain that Mr. Conrad is responsible for that, too.

Another sad case of white liberal perfectionist guilt syndrome (WLPGS or willpigs).
My mother-in-law suffers this to the extreme. "Did you know we used the Bomb in WW2?" No shit, and I am so glad we did, because there is a very good chance that I would not have been born, my father faught in the Pacific Theatre. How selfish of me to think in such a narrow term!