Comic for Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Posted: 7:55 am, Thursday, February 21st

Seriously, there actually are Obamaerobics classes. That could've been the whole joke, right there, I think. Just me saying, "Obamaerobics." Anyway, I am 99% certain this will be the homeboy's last appearance in Five Bucks, because I am really brutal at drawing him. I'll have to stop decrying the awful caricatures in Mallard Fillmore and just go back to decrying the utter lack of humor/insight/meaning in that strip. Or I could not talk about it, but that's just not my style.

Not being officially a New Yorker – early in my tenure here, I had that defined to me as, “One who has lived in New York for 10 years, and has achieved something great,” so I am a whopping 0-for-2 on that count, but I am approaching 7 years in a few weeks – I’m not a “It is what it is” guy. The other one I don’t use that I’ve heard a lot is “Not for nothing.” That one is way more annoying to me than “It is what it is.”

Baseball's a-coming, so I'm probably going to alienate half of you by talking about it a lot. Sorry. Here's a stat-heavy, but fascinating, look at Cy Young's career, and if he should actually be the namesake for the award. And here's the Brothers Stein making horse asses out of themselves, declaring Girardi the best manager in the history of the game, and the Goat Fuckers the better team in 2007. (And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling bugs!)

Scientology is done playing around.

I'm not up on Bill Kristol, right-wingnut and NY Times op-ed columnist, but it seems like he's not incredibly, how do I say... Correct? I read Ellsburg's books on the Pentagon Papers over the summer. It was pretty interesting stuff. For being a tremendously evil fuck, Nixon didn't come down nearly as hard on him as I would've thought.

I love this t-shirt design over at the Curmudgeon.

bullfrog

CK -- Thursday, February 21 2008, 07:52 am

Love the strip today!

Thanks, man. I'd love to say that the third-panel was an intentional pairing of speech and dramatic speech pose and lighting, but I drew this at six yesterday morning, so if it was, it was subconsciously intentional.

Awesome picture from the end of a collitch hoops game the other night, complete with a Highlights-esque "Find it" game, right here:

http://sportsyenta.blogspot.com/2008/02/greatest-photo-weve-seen-lately-yes.html

Apparently, Scientologist got the word that there's a cheat sheet floating around on the Internet where you can beat their "Stress Test" that they sometimes troll out there. (Help me out, is "Scientologist" kosher for someone of the Scientology "religion"?)

I got a kick out of Hank Steinbrenner saying essentially that steroids are far worse in the NFL than they were in MLB. Maybe if you're talking the 1980's, sure, but seriously dude.

Oh, Clemens walked out of the ESPN the Weekend thing he was scheduled to participate in, apparently afraid that some bulked up ten year old will beat him up and take his lunch money. (Or it could be his wife who will beat him up.)

If Hillary loses on Super Tuesday, part Deux, I suspect she'll hire a new campaign manager yet again. She may still do that if there's a split.

If she splits Ohio-Texas, she's going to hit the backroom and start courting as many superdelegates as she can, would be my guess. I'm trying not to think about Ohio-Texas too much (despite this week's strips), since it's a week and a half off still, and there's only so much CNN bloviating I can take.

Seriously? New Yorkers have to achieve something great? Dammit.

This is what I've heard. I think it's kind of bollocks, myself, but since I consider getting a 99.3% completion in San Andreas to be great, you can set your own bar on this one, dude.

I don't think you do yourself justice, I think Barack looks great and very presidential.

I guess temping for two years doesn't really qualify as something great, huh.

Per the first panel, another of the many things I like about Barack is that he's still an average guy -- they asked him during the NH Democratic debate if he'd been watching the Republican debate, and he said he was flipping back and forth between it and the Redskins game. Love that. Also that he's a good writer, and that SONG OF SOLOMON is one of his favorite books . . . John McCain probably thinks Toni Morrison was an army buddy of his.

Okay, I am clearly drinking the Obama Kool-Aid. Still, that lifestyle line is a classic.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/clinton-undefea.html

Hmm...how much of my own "federal deficit" could I lose from Obamaerobics?

I was just on the John McCain website for work-related reasons (sort of) and Cindy McCain's biography page includes recipes:

http://www.johnmccain.com/About/Cindy.htm

Appealing to that traditionalist base much?

Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw?

Talk radio may be onto something - that sounds like wine-drinking Slate-reading liberalism to me!

Speaking of Slate, they also think McCain's mistress (or whatever, I haven't read these stories because McCain doesn't interest me at all) looks exactly like his wife. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/02/20/its-about-vicki-stupid.aspx