Mike Luckovich

By LuckoDull

December 19, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Isn’t the subject of this cartoon like several days old now?

You mind telling us what day of the week it is, Mikey?

And what’s up with the stripes on the football?

Our boy has confused the ball with the referees.

Boring AND odd.

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By Mrs. Godzilla

December 19, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

The joke is professional football itself.

By Shawny

December 19, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this

Due to the fact that this cartoon does not suck, there will be no CARTOON THAT DOESN’T SUCK. That is, unless someone else posts one.

Funny toon, Mikey. Get rid of Mora….even Vick is wondering what Coach Reeves is doing.

By reebok

December 19, 2006 08:59 AM | Link to this

That’s a really funny one, ML. Nice job.

By Brian Curtis

December 19, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this

I’m lost on this one, but then I don’t follow football anyway.

Hopefully we’ll have something more relevant tomorrow.

By Political Foreskin

December 19, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

Luckovich is a broken hearted Falcon fan, like we all are. Mora has proved to be a child. A football coach is a peculiar archetype: he has to be smart enough to adjust his game plan to win, yet dumb enough to think it matters.

Mora has an very strange strange style on the field. He’s constantly waving the red flag in the opponent’s face, like he’s taunting bulls. He seems to be more concerned with cheap tricks than solid game plans.

He knows one play: the draw play.

If you throw every down, you cant win. If you run every down you cant win. But if you throw, then run, then fake punt and do a tweedle-dee flea-flicker, you’ll wet the cheerleader’s panties. That seems to be Mora’s strategy, and so far it’s working, but for how long?

That’s all I’m saying.

By Steve McQueen Jr.

December 19, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

Is Jim Mora a Republican?

By Clem

December 19, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

So the new standard is that if Brian Curtis doesn’t follow the subject matter then the cartoon is irrelevant for all. Would you mind providing a list of Brian Curtis approved topics?

By Football Sucks

December 19, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

When did Atlanta get a football team? Never mind, who cares anyhooooo.

By Brian Curtis

December 19, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

Clem: Football has always been as irrelevant as Paris Hilton’s latest escapades, the newborn panda in the zoo, the “war on Christmas,” and other non-issues.

Here’s a hint on relevance: It has to affect people in some way.

By N-GA

December 19, 2006 10:27 AM | Link to this

It’s amusing to read the wing-nuts’ recent posts about the changes in ML’s blog (particularly RW’s comments).

They are ridiculing this blog because it has fewer posts than in the past. Isn’t that just the most intelligent remark possible? [sarc/off]. And they then proceed to take “credit” for this decrease in post quantity because it is the wing-nuts who are posting less often.

I think they should also take credit for the increase in the quality of this blog since they are posting less often. Also, they should take credit for improvement in the relevance of the dialog on the blog since they have fled from here. Perhaps they should also take credit for this blog’s recent improvement in civility.

Now then…if they choose to say that they are leaving and won’t be back, I remember a wonderful line from the film “Clerks”: “You’ll be missed!”

By Nomad

December 19, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this

Good ‘toon ML.

By Political Foreskin

December 19, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this

N-GA

This blog is missing but one or two trolls who posted the hundreds of comments all by themselves, to themselves for themselves using aliases and multiple IDs.

I spotted it immediately, and made a couple of phone calls, and voila: The AJC has it’s blog back.

Welcome to real blogging. Blog as much as you want, as long as it’s a couple of times per day. Nobody can stand a uber-poster anyway, (especially not if it’s me).

I do wear thin quickly, as do we all.

Thank you, and good night.

(butwaitI’mnotfinishedIhavesomethingimportanttosayit’snotfairboohoo)

By getalife

December 19, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Geaux Saints!

Falcons suck.

By Goldie

December 19, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

I love the Falcons, therefore I suffer year after year.

By Proud Pinko Liberal

December 19, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Today is the anniversary of the day Clinton was impeached. Let’s discuss the reasons why lying about a b***** justifies impeachment and lying about the reasons to go to war gets a pass shall we?

By Truthman

December 19, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Just like the Chimperor, Mora has all the tools needed at his disposal, but he has no clue what to do with them.

I wish it was as easy to fire the Chimperor as it is to fire Mora!

Go Thrashers!!

By KZ_Guy

December 19, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

Funny toon ML. I know it is hard to lay off DUMBYA once in awhile because he provides so much material. ML what are you going to do when the mistake ends in 08? You will have to create some new dipwad.

By WashingtonState

December 19, 2006 02:06 PM | Link to this

There is little left to post about if you are a supporter of the present administration. There is nothing left to do but stick a fork in it. Now even the joint chiefs are feeling free to throw in their two cents. The death throes of dinosaur is not a pretty thing to watch.

By LMAO

December 19, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

Mike this is getting to the point of just being plain ridiculous. ANOTHER non-Bush cartoon.

Are you just avoiding reality? Got your head stuck in the sand??? Taken a time trip back to 1999???? WAKE UP!!!

Who is paying you to not lampoon Bush???? Big oil? The RNC??? Haliburton??? Big Radio?

As of today I have CANCELLED my subscription to the AJC. I now see the reason for the lost circulation.

SHAME.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this

No, Pinko, let’s not. There’s enough depression to go around this holiday season without trying to figure out why Bush is still un-impeached.

By Glenn

December 19, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this

The Republican party: Our bridge to the 11th Century.

Where have all the chickenhawks gone?

By The Tool

December 19, 2006 03:16 PM | Link to this

Why aren’t you drawing bush with big ears lucko?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!

By Midori

December 19, 2006 03:44 PM | Link to this

I would like to thank the AJC for getting rid of the vermin that had infested this blog.

However, it appears that a couple more traps need to be set…..

By Bill

December 19, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this

Glenn - they’ve likely gone where all hatemongers go after repeatedly getting their clocks cleaned. What would they talk about? The wonders of Bush? The “success” of the Iraq ignorance? The Hitleresque trends vomiting forth from the White House? Their own hatred, bitterness, jealousies, failures, maladjusted lives?

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

“What would they talk about?”

Bill/ Midori: Um, how stupid liberals really are?

In what might be called the mother of all surprises, Iraq’s economy is growing strong, even booming in places.

Meanwhile, y’all can wallow in the same boorishness that you find so, well, exciting.

By Goldie

December 19, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this

TommyT— you post about “stupid liberals”… here’s an example of how smart the Repugnants are — they’re even getting laughed in Cobb County now:

Textbook stickers on evolution out in Cobb

By Goldie

December 19, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Hooray— I can’t wait to start popping the popcorn for this trial!

“We’re calling the vice president,” attorney Ted Wells said in court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who is charged with perjury and obstruction.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

The settlement puts an end to a nationally watched case that has raised questions of local authority over schools and whether Cobb’s sticker —- which called evolution “a theory, not a fact” —- runs afoul of the First Amendment. “We’re very pleased that the Cobb County school board has done the respsonsible thing, to call a halt to the litigation,” said Debbie Seagraves, executive director ACLU of Georgia. “It’s absolutely a victory for the parents and the children in Cobb County school.”

Goldie: It’s no wonder that you liberals get excited when ideas you don’t like get censored, seeing how you are too shallow and ignorant to debate them.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, the typical Republican line: as long as someone, somewhere is making money, all is OK. Thanks Tommy for bringing that mantra to our attention. I guess thousands of deaths are far easier to swallow knowing that Iraqna is making someone quite rich.

The article is quite lovely. It quotes interesting factoids like “income-tax cuts (from 45 percent to just 15 percent)”. Amusing, considering that since there is no actual government, the tax rate could be 137% for all anyone cares, there is no one to collect these taxes. Or the factoid that “[s]alaries have gone up more than 100 percent since the fall of Saddam”, which comes a couple of breaths after “[u]nemployment runs between 30 and 50 percent”. So, ummm, although half the country is unemployed, the other half has better salaries? And, of course, “elimination of tariffs and trade barriers”. Hard to have those when there is absolutely no impediment to crossing the national borders, isn’t it?

And then there is this gem: “A government often accused of being no government at all has somehow managed to take its first steps to liberalize the highly centralized economy of the Saddam era.” This is presented as somehow shocking. No, what WOULD be shocking is if the non-existent government would have somehow retained central control. Of course economy is de-centralized! It’s reverted back to the primitive barter system of 4,000 years ago. “I’ll give you a sheep if you give me a Kalashnikov.” If you can convince someone of this particular trade, you’re a business mogul: you wind up with a sheep, a Kalashnikov, and a body to dispose of.

All of this adds up to the idea that Iraqis are more optimistic about the future than we think. That may be so. That may also be a failure of imagination. After all, how, exactly, does it get much worse than it is now? It reminds me of one of the many great stand-up routines by a famous Russian comedian: “They keep telling us ‘Don’t worry, there is no place to go but up.’ Yes there is. And we can still head in that direction for a very long time.”

By Midori

December 19, 2006 04:37 PM | Link to this

TommyT - does the “t” stand for “tard”?

you may do well to hang out with us “stupid liberals”. you just may learn something.

come into the light, Tommy.

on second thought, scratch that. Ignorance is contagious, and I don’t think the CDC has enough vaccine to ward off your stupidity. I sure don’t want it rubbing off on me.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

We’ve debated creationism already, TT. It lost. Get over it

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this

rushncap: I guess this must be over your little socialist head but most people don’t invest in losers.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

rushncap: The sticker says “evolution is a theory.” You are the one who assigned “creationism” to the debate and then censored it.

That’s because evolution is so weak.

Deal with it.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this

TT, it must be over your head that no one invests in Iraq. Their “economy” is not based on investment. It’s based on selling a few trinkets. No one is building anything in that country. I’d study up on the concepts of economy, TT, you don’t want to come off as a complete moron for the rest of your life, do you now?

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 04:56 PM | Link to this

Evolution is a theory. So is gravity. Is Cobb pushing for that sticker as well?

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

rushncap: How much is a barrel of oil selling for now?

Debate my a$$, I’ve seen what you call debate. You’ve got all the skills of a three year old child strapped into a high chair but armed with a bowl of cereal.

The outcome is pointless.

Real estate is booming. Construction, retail and wholesale trade sectors are healthy, too, according to a report by Global Insight in London. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports 34,000 registered companies in Iraq, up from 8,000 three years ago. Sales of secondhand cars, televisions and mobile phones have all risen sharply. Estimates vary, but one from Global Insight puts GDP growth at 17 percent last year and projects 13 percent for 2006. The World Bank has it lower: at 4 percent this year. But, given all the attention paid to deteriorating security, the startling fact is that Iraq is growing at all.

Hell, you can say the same things about the US economy.

You want to trash that too?

I guess you liberals think anything over a potato a day and a nice field to toil in is evil and bound to fail, right?

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

No, Tiny Tim, we think that discussing how much a company makes in the middle of a civil war is callous at best, brazenly repugnant at worst. We liberals think that it does not matter how many companies there are when thousands are dying. We liberals happen to value human life. Even yours. You value only money.

Oh, and to answer your question. What is the price of oil today? About 2.5 times what it was at the time of our invasion of Iraq ($63 today, $26 in March ‘03). Hope that helps.

By RE

December 19, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

I would not be too happy about the sales of mobile phones and second hand cars going up in Iraq. I think most of them tend to go boom a few weeks after purchase

By RE

December 19, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this

how is the non-IED related sales going in Iraq?

I bet sales of Ammonium Nitrate, ammunition, and Nitric Acid are up in Iraq

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this

LOL, RE, I was actually thinking “well, I wonder what they use cell phones for. My guess is not to set up dates or call their masseurs.”

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

Rushncap: Not a very good analogy. I expected more from you than this. Ever since the Earth was created, gravity has held objects to it. This is indisputable and has never been in doubt. Perhaps your ancestors floated freely into space? I know mine didn’t.

A theorem was developed by Newton which explained the FACT of why gravity exists. It is called a theory because the exact force cannot be seen or proven.

Evolution does not possess the same factual evidence as gravity does. Maybe it would be different if there were species that were transitional, with their predecessor intact. But there is nothing. All you liberals have are some pictures of fish bones and textbooks full of babble.

Cobb County had every right to open the debate.

Ignorance has won another ACLU led battle.

Revel in it.

By @@

December 19, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this

Ooooohhh ml. I dropped in to catch up on the news at home. Stopped in at Wooten’s…everything’s fine over there. A few too many liberals, but that’s to be expected.

Anyway, it looks like you could use a comment. Here goes. Football???

Those three players are wearing a lot of pads. Thigh, knee, shin?

Are you wearing a pad ml? You should be. 40 comments at 5:36?

By Honu

December 19, 2006 05:38 PM | Link to this

By One Voice December 18, 2006 07:13 PM | Link to this Special note to Honu: When was the last time you prayed and god answered you? I know the answer- Either he’s never answered you because he’s not there, or you are delusional and hear voices, because he’s not there. Merry Christmas.

Well, well, well, the smarmy bastard (good one, RW) calls me out at 7:13p on a blog that closes at 7:00p.

What a gutless coward. Wonder what he’s into that makes him so afraid of the Lord, and causes him to attack every chance he gets. Guess I don’t need to know the answer to that, but whatever it is must be truly vile to make him quake in his booties over my beliefs.

What an insufferable twit.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this

rushncap: I know, all war is wrong, even the American Revolution which founded this country, blah, blah, blah.

By your measure no country should ever defend itself, we should all live in a world commune, if someone wants to behead us then we should submit quietly as not to offend them.

So what is the point of even having an economy? What are we debating for?

P.S. $63 dollars times 2 million barrels PER DAY, the establishment of a free market capitalist economy, instead of the slave labor market you love so much, is inevitable.

Deal with it.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 05:44 PM | Link to this

It seems to me, Tiny Tim, that you “expected” me to be down on your level. Sorry to disappoint. Newton did not explain the “fact of why gravity exists”. Newton explained why an apple falls to the ground, and called that theory gravity. Darwin explained the fact that there are a lot of different species on this planet, and called it evolution. Same thing. As for “textbooks full of babble”, it is not the textbooks’ writers’ fault you cannot understand them. Most people can. There may be value in shooting low enough to explain things to people like you, but that is open to debate. I’m open to that option, however.

Cobb County has no more right to redefine science or evolution than it has choosing what it wants to teach about gravity. Cobb County either teaches biology as it is accepted by the scientific community, or it loses federal funding, which can be spent on those schools which actually impart knowledge upon their students.

By Midori

December 19, 2006 05:49 PM | Link to this

@@,

perhaps you should shift your focus to quality, rather than quantity.

there’s enough morons talking loud and saying nothing on Wooten’s blog. Thankfully, they aren’t doing it here. That is, until you showed up…..

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this

Tiny Tim, if you love war so much, what’s your excuse for sitting at home writing crap on useless blogs? Shouldn’t you be out there demonstrating your machoness? Or does it only extend as far as your keyboard? Do IEDs make you pee your pants?

I don’t oppose all wars. I oppose useless wars based on a lie, executed with the strategic dexterity of a tapeworm, and continuously lied about for 3.5 years. I oppose those types of wars, yes.

Oh, and if you love free market so much, is there a reason you are on welfare?

By RW-(the original)

December 19, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this

One big difference between Newton with gravity and Darwin with evolution is that whenever you test the theory of gravity it works and whenever you try to find evidence of evolution there is virtually none.

If 99.99999% of the time things you let go of just hovered in place in front of you then you might call Newton as big a crackpot as Darwin.

Just my $.02, carry on.

Oh, N-GA, why don’t you show us some examples of these enlightened conversations you’ve had around whenever the conservatives are gone? “Busk sucks” and bad stand up don’t qualify so that pretty much leaves this a wasteland.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this

Well, well, rushncap provides us with the perfect example of “babble:”

“Newton did not explain the “fact of why gravity exists”. Newton explained why an apple falls to the ground, and called that theory gravity.”

And yes, there are textbooks full of it.

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 06:00 PM | Link to this

RW, the $0.02 pricing of your contribution is a vast overestimation of its actual worth.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 06:03 PM | Link to this

Now the room is covered with cereal, this was too easy:

*“Tiny Tim, if you love war so much, what’s your excuse for sitting at home writing crap on useless blogs? Shouldn’t you be out there demonstrating your machoness? Or does it only extend as far as your keyboard? Do IEDs make you pee your pants?”**

I’m 72 years old, rushncap, I hate to preempt your juvenile “slam dunk,” unless you are suggesting it makes no differnce?

*“Oh, and if you love free market so much, is there a reason you are on welfare?”**

Gosh, that’s so deep.

See what I mean about “pointless?”

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

RW, the $0.02 pricing of your contribution is a vast overestimation of its actual worth.

Tiny Tim, considering that I have a graduate degree in physics and your achievements seem to culminate with the opposable thumb, maybe you should listen a bit.

By RE

December 19, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

This blog is pretty lite on the comments lately. But when I think back on it, I have been checking in off and on for about a year or so, I can think of so many interesting people who just stopped coming here because of the constant name calling and idiotic arguements. It will take time for people to come back here now that the main nut job is no longer here.

By RE

December 19, 2006 06:09 PM | Link to this

So are there any alternate theories for the creation and extinction of species of the past few million years?

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 06:19 PM | Link to this

Ah well then, TT, it’s a lot easier to send other people’s children to die once you’re in no danger of being drafted yourself. Bully!

And no, the welfare slam was not deep. I was trying to communicate on your level. You seem to get very angry when people try to go above it, like the textbook authors.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 06:23 PM | Link to this

Should we all shut up and bow down before the emperor rushncap?

He’s hoping we do.

Did I not tell everybody that the educational system was dysfunctional and in a shambles?

Is this not irrefutable proof, that being rushncap’s “degree?”

By getalife

December 19, 2006 06:26 PM | Link to this

Yep, w told Gates to get more troops “for the long war”.

He will pick sides in Iraq’s civil war to create a regional civil war.

All the warmongers need to stop blogging and get to a recruiter’s office.

By RW-(the original)

December 19, 2006 06:26 PM | Link to this

RE,

They keep the archives for a year here, you would be hard pressed to find a day that it wasn’t liberals trying to derail the blog with name calling and name jacking every time a decent conversation broke out.

Even since most of us have left I don’t see any conversations you are having with each other. It’s just whining about Bush and b!tching about us. Why don’t you use that phony “let’s all get along” routine you tried a few months ago and see if you can get the libs here to discuss an actual topic with each other. I’m sure it would a little like watching a penguin exhibit at feeding time, but it might be fun to look in on.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 06:34 PM | Link to this

RE: You seem to be teetering on the edge but I don’t think you have totally gone off the deep end yet.

So, against my better judgement, I’ll bite-

What would your “theory” of the Creation be?

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 06:34 PM | Link to this

I was not aware that a degree makes one an emperor.

TT, your “evidence” that education is in shambles seems to be that you were unable to get one. Seems a touch ego-centric, no? Your argument that “I can’t understand textbooks, therefore all of science is wrong” to me, at least, seems a bit grandiose.

By RE

December 19, 2006 06:41 PM | Link to this

Well, I believe that the differentiation in species is due to evolution. What would your theory be if it is not evolution?

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this

rushncap: The last time someone projected words on me that I didn’t say and then declared themselves winners of the debate was in the second grade.

On the playground as I recall.

Congratulations on snapping that streak.

For the record, I said textbooks written by liberals are full of babble and then used an example put forth by you.

This would be your chance to tell us how a falling apple and Newton’s explanation of gravity differ and your statement is nothing but a bunch of hot air.

By Buy Danish

December 19, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this

“This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding. the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.”

This^^^is a dire threat if you’re a Liberal and this message must be squelched by any means necessary (with a lot of help from the ACLU).

God forbid one have an open mind about an unproven theory!

By rushncap

December 19, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this

TT, I projected no words into your mouth. You simply had to face what you did say when I repeated them. I dare you to show me one instance when I did this.

A falling apple is a fact. We can observe it. Gravity is a scientific theory that explains why that apple falls to the ground. That is the difference. It makes no difference to me whether you accept this reality or not, but at least getting the truth out there is a good practice, IMHO.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this

RE: Allow me to correct myself about you and the deep end.

How can a question about the Creation come right back to me as a question about evolution?

That’s nothing but a form of surrender.

By RW-(the original)

December 19, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this

RE,

What does the “differentiation” in species have to do with the question TommyT asked you?

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this

“TT, I projected no words into your mouth. You simply had to face what you did say when I repeated them. I dare you to show me one instance when I did this.”

rushncap: 6:43 was entirely projected.

A falling apple is a fact. We can observe it.

Finally you make sense, unfortunately for you, you just totally disproved evolution and proved Cobb County absolutely correct for debating it.

By TommyT

December 19, 2006 07:10 PM | Link to this

Wow, another barn burner at the LuckoDull blog:

By N-GA Also, they should take credit for improvement in the relevance of the dialog on the blog since they have fled from here.

That solo victory lap was followed hard by reality, never a welcome sight in the fever swamps:

By The Tool Why aren’t you drawing bush with big ears lucko? WHY? WHY? WHY? Waaaaaahhhhhhh!!

Yep, a big improvement.

If it hadn’t been for rushncap playing the court jester to Tommy’s reasoning, this day would have been a total disaster.

Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.

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