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Quote:About Ted Rall
Ted Rall writes for a generation unjustly maligned as a pack of lazy slackers. He voices Generation X's frustration and resentment at the excesses of the baby boomers who've left a spent America in their mammoth wake. Ted's irreverent attitude and deft use of satire combine to make his work as fun to read as it is thought-provoking. And Ted's ability to connect with current culture gives his writing an of-the-moment perspective that is edgy and sharp. 


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So let me see, Ted Rall has resentment against the excesses of the baby boomers...yet embraces the politics of the 1960s-1970s baby boom generation to do so.

He "writes for a generation unjustly maligned as a pack of lazy slackers". He writes COMIC STRIPS and says it's unjust to think of lazy. Nine year olds write comic strips for free! But he RESENTS the "excesses" of the baby boomers, as he writes COMIC STRIPS to make a living. Isn't buying a book of COMIC STRIPS in reality an excess? Isn't it these excesses that built the media that allows him to distribute the COMIC STRIPS from which he profits? Isn't it that he only makes a living based on these very excesses?

Moreover, where does he get the justification that his life should be as easy as the baby boomers had it? Did any other generation, those that lived through wars, scarlet fever, the depressions of the 1890s and 1930s complain about th excesses of previous generations? (Maybe those in the 1930s...with some justification). And has he looked around? Does any other country have it so good? How many people in Africa, South America, or Western Asia write COMIC STRIPS and live so comfortably?

Maybe an "of-the-moment" perspective really isn't all that profound.

Quote:"Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. . . . Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times, and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pouts from the press and the microphone of his own age."
C.S. Lewis

Quote:And in spite of all the talk about the "angst" felt by "generation X," I doubt that this is an entirely new phenomenon. More than a half-century ago, C. S. Lewis noted that, "for every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be guarded from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."  Christian Faith and the Study of History:

<a href='http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/mckenzie.html' target='_blank'>A View from the Classrom</a>
Robert Tracy McKenzie
Presented to the "Christian Scholarship Conference,"
Ohio State University October 22, 1999
Columbus, Ohio

This illustrates the major difference between Dems and Reps....Democrats let their buffoons draw cartoons, Republicans get them "elected" president. :wave:

Oddball Wrote:This illustrates the major difference between Dems and Reps....Democrats let their buffoons draw cartoons, Republicans get them "elected" president. :wave:

You'll eat your words if Kerry gets elected.

No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent. Bush is none of those things.

I'm shocked somebody would syndicate filth like that.

If I wanted a leftist brain washing, I'd read up on Kruschev's (sp?) beliefs.

Oddball Wrote:No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent.

So is Martha Stewart.

DrTorch Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent.

So is Martha Stewart.

Martha is also not a buffoon.

Oddball Wrote:

DrTorch Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent.

So is Martha Stewart.

Martha is also not a buffoon.

That's right, she is to be pitied as a victim of society and capitalism.

Bad Bad Capitalism! Only rich white conservative men should be punished because they are evil! EVIL I tell ya!

OK, back to the regularly scheduled posts.....

When Kenny Boy no longer walks the streets, let me know. Otherwise, that wasn't even a decent diversionary attempt.

Oddball Wrote:

DrTorch Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent.

So is Martha Stewart.

Martha is also not a buffoon.

Dont worry she's a liberal and allowed to steal, the double standard strikes again.

MaumeeRocket Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:

DrTorch Wrote:

Oddball Wrote:No I won't. There is nothing buffoonish about the man. He's well-spoken, dignified, courtly, experienced, and intelligent.

So is Martha Stewart.

Martha is also not a buffoon.

Dont worry she's a liberal and allowed to steal, the double standard strikes again.

Again, get back to me when Kenny Boy goes on trial. This red herring don't swim. :wave:

Kenny Boy is just a victim of society...you should feel sorry for his greed.