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I promise this will make you laugh and even think.

15:01 / 17.10.01

there's two full pages of these strips at
this page

The Return Of Rothkoid

16:16 / 17.10.01

Isn't that OJ Simpson and Reed Richards in the first strip? I didn't know they hung out.

19:13 / 17.10.01

...And maybe when my company gets the emergency federal aid it applied for, they'll only fire 15,000 people – instead of the 20,00 they're planning on! Time to jack off!

hell yeah!

22:36 / 17.10.01

christ it did make me laugh

you have to try a little harder if you are going to get my toasted brain going, though

Quimper

22:41 / 17.10.01

To be fair, making an analogy with a war on drugs isn't quite right. It seems that the war against drugs has two things against it that the war on terrorism lacks.

The American governemnt has a bigger budget to fight terrorism than the terrorists (info here taken from TRAFFIC, so I could be wrong).

A large percentage of people in the United States and around the world WANT drugs. Most people I have asked have, at the very least, tried marijuana. This really isn't true with terrorism.

I am curious, though. Is the food really that dangerous to retrieve in Afghanistan?

The Return Of Rothkoid

08:41 / 18.10.01

As I understand it, the place is fairly peppered with landmines, so I'm guessing that it'd be pretty difficult to get if it lands off-target. quote:Landmines and other unexploded battlefield detritus, commonly known as unexploded ordnance (UXO), contaminate at least 724 million square meters of land in Afghanistan. Only two of Afghanistan's twenty-nine provinces are believed to be free of landmines. The most heavily mined provinces are Herat and Kandahar. Kandahar is the stronghold of the Taliban and a likely focal point for armed conflict. quote:andmines already kill or maim more civilians in Afghanistan than in any other country. Afghan civilians face injury or death on a daily basis because of mines and unexploded ordnance. In the year 2000, there were on average about eighty-eight recorded mine/UXO casualties per month.5 It is believed that the actual number of new mine victims could be 50 percent to 100 percent greater, taking into account those deaths and injuries that go unreported.Human Rights Watch page on Afghanistan's landmine problem.

yawn - thing's buddy

08:41 / 18.10.01

quimper - of course nobody wants 'terrorism' - but there is a debate about what actually constitutes terrorism.

There is also a debate concerning which drugs to go to war against - eg. fight heroin - don't fight valium.

therefore there is ambiguity in a war on drugs.

it is this point which links these two 'wars' - both have abstract goals - the elimination of 'drugs' and 'terrorism' - two terms which describe 'things' which generally humans find hard to agree on.

15:05 / 18.10.01

I fucking LOVE this guy's stuff. Check out his Karate cartoons on the links provided on the main "Get Your War On" page.

I also love the war cartoons because they're funny as shit with some social commentary without decrying the US as utterly evil and horrible, nor do they say how wonderful the war is and how we will win it without a hitch.

They're just smart, damn funny cartoons. Amen to a good laugh about all this shit.

I'm not going to get into a whole big debate about how I feel about the war on terrorism. I've posted my views here before, and cartoons like this show that you can just enjoy a good laugh about our world today without automatically feeling like you have to launch into a huge essay about your detailed political opinions on all that's happening.

ESPECIALLY read his karate cartoons!

18:14 / 18.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Quimper:

A large percentage of people in the United States and around the world WANT drugs. ... This really isn't true with terrorism.

well, for one thing, all the people who we are now mercilessly bombing the shit out of, and everyone on their side, will want what we call "terrorism."

secondly, afghans are repeatedly calling our tactics of bombing their nation "terrorism". therefore, in their scheme, we want terrorism.

and then thirdly its interesting to point out that the war on drugs and the war on terrorism fuse into one thing right at the Taliban. As you know, up until 2 months ago, we were giving the taliban millions of dollars in the name of the war on drugs.

pretty funny.

20:16 / 18.10.01

. . . the Empire never ended... indeed.

16:53 / 23.10.01

okay here's something else Funny (ish)
it's FLASH

17:09 / 23.10.01

Good stuff over at This Modern World(naturally!).

19:30 / 24.10.01

Ha!!! I like that Cherry...

oh & of course The Onion

Then of course Madblast

16:37 / 01.11.01

there's an article about the Get Your War On strip creator in the LA Weekly here

21:33 / 01.11.01

Ah, War on Drugs... only way most people can deal with it I'd imagine.

22:57 / 02.11.01

War on drugs is stupid, try holding a gun to an E tablet, is it any less dangerous?

00:02 / 03.11.01

I have yet to see narconews mentioned here yet, but I am fairly new and that may be why. There are some interesting articles there that draw parallels between the war on drugs and the war on terrorism.
http://www.narconews.com/

10:58 / 06.11.01

Is this funny?:
http://downloads.warprecords.com/morris/bushwhacked.mp3

close to the bone, but I like it.

[apologioes if too old hat]

12:02 / 06.11.01

No, it's funny alright. A little wrong, but still very funny.....