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September 03, 2003
Atrocity Tourism Double-Header: ThenLeave.com and Mari-chan.
Some people just can't stand to be disagreed with.
An ability to accept the vailidity of an opponent's reasonable and factual argument without necessarily agreeing with it is probably the sign of a fairly intelligent man. So I'll leave it up to you just how much that attribute applies to all the nice folks behind ThenLeave.com.
ThenLeave.com just can't stand vocal dissention, disapproval of the current goverment and its policies, and all those pesky protests and political actions, seemingly forgetting that people in democracies tend to take full advantage of that whole "being allowed by law to form their own opinions" thing. I suppose debate, fairer elections, and a new approach to foreign policy, one that wouldn't inspire the burning hatred of the rest of the globe, wouldn't fix anything. So they'd all just really, really appreciate it if I and folks like me would just shut up and leave town for good.
I guess the fact that this is as much my country as theirs wouldn't hold a lot of truck with folks like this, on account that it's unpatriotic of me to disagree with the president. So perhaps I should enter their contest for a free, one-way ticket wherever I like... which really, says way more than they probably think it does about how uncomfortable I'm making them by merely existing.
Sorry, bubba. I'm a evil, commie liberal.... And when the presidential elections rolls around in a year or so, I'm going to take immense pleasure in being the one to personally cancel out your vote.
On a lighter note... Mari-chan.
"Magical designer Mari-chan" is Japanese, and wants to kill Japan's "character culture," or compulsive need to design cutesey mascots and merchandise them mercilessly. Tall order, but I think she's up to it. Besides churning out new, anonymous character culture mascots at breakneack speed, she's also mimicked the style while depicting gushing, explosive menstrual periods and self-harming apples... with.. uh.. teddy bear heads.
Yeah.
So anyway, enjoy. And a quick note to anyone who's ordered comics in the last five days or so: I've had to stay at home recently to wait for the UPS guy, so everything's being mailed in one big lump tomorrow. Be patient, okay?
Posted by Spike at September 3, 2003 03:37 PM
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