As a confirmed raging liberal, I have to agree with Tarwater that This Modern World is a retarded piece of shit, every bit the lefty equivalent of Mallard Fillmore. Unfunny partisan hackery knows no political affiliation.
Still, it’s always baffling to me to see people trying to defend the shit Beck and Scheuer said in the OP. It makes you look like an idiot whether you’re an apologist for the left or the right (and there are enough of each on this board that at least it’s easy to spot the ideologues).
It’s funny. I felt the same way ten years ago. I felt like This Modern World was reductive, ignored important points of refutation and tended to beat a straw man. In the intervening time we have seen the conservative side of the discourse get ceded to the likes of Glen Beck. Now I have to wonder to what extent Tom Tomorrow was right all along.
The **1936 **Johnstown Flood? NOT the one in 1889? They rebuilt? How stupid were they?
(FTR, my wife is sensitive about the one in '89 because she lost family in it. Please don’t tell her I got snarky about the residents of Johnstown, PA. (thinking) Nah, go ahead. After all these years she expects it.)
OK, he was right all along. Big deal! And now, he won’t shut up about it, rubbing people’s noses in how totally, absitively and posolutely wrong they were. What’s bi-partisan about that, huh? What?
Radical cartoonists were much more civil in the 50’s.