Truth of The Day

[athelind]

(Reading the archives, I find that the cartoonist has more than his share of unquestioned assumptions, and more often than not lapses into the sort of easy digs, cheap shots, knee-jerk reactions and general mean-spiritedness that I usually associate with strips like Mallard Fillmore. The chess metaphor is brilliant, but in context, it treads the border of PKB.)

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[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

I flipped through the archives. Two observations, admittedly off the cuff:

1) I'm sure this guy thinks of himself as a "Bright", he seems to be exactly the kind of arrogant smartass that would. Arrogant smartasses that make the rest of us atheists look bad.

2) I wonder what his opinion of global warming is. Something about this (the mallard-fillmore-ness of it as you state) makes me think he is a global warming denier. But he didn't mention it in a few dozen strips, so I have no evidence. Just a hunch, which I guess is pseudoscientific. :)

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Snide cynicism appears to be his raison d'être.

[stalbon.livejournal.com]

Indeed, I've been reading Mallard Fillmore more often now, and aside from general plugs about school years starting or his e-mail address changing, it's just spiteful digs at whatever he doesn't like.

If you think you'd enjoy a more subtle, funnier comic that pokes fun at society, Candorville is rather nice.

[baxil.livejournal.com]

That would be absolutely perfect if it replaced "with a believer" with "on the Internet".