2004

I feel the same way. I won’t read Dilbert and I won’t read Orson Scott Card. I don’t want my attention to their work help them profit in any way. Besides, I was tired of Dilbert decades ago. I read the first two Ender’s books and had enough of that series too.

2005

It’s the economy, stupid (the economy of the ultra-rich)

2006

This is how senators become hanging tree decorations.

2007

Speaking of the GOP and Discourse breaking…

2008

So you’ve had better luck separating other artists from their art?

2009

Sure. Wagner springs to mind.

2010

Guillotine

2011

This seems pretty bold even for the GOP. But hey, at least they can slash social security, medicare, etc, in order to help out those poor wealthy folks with their harsh capital gains taxes!

2012

Or Gesualdo, Caravaggio, Dickens.

If I had to restrict myself to art made only by good people I would go insane. However, there is a different calculation when the artist is alive and your patronage puts money in their pocket. I have no problem giving money to the professional work of assholes, but perhaps with criminals or bigots the qualms make some sense.

2013



2014

That’s amazingly bad, yep. I bet the GOP would make you pay the remaining credit back if your kid dies before age 10 as well.

2015

They’d throw the mother in jail for Super Late Term Abortion.

2016

All of this is what those great heartland Americans demanded. They wanted to throw money at those billionaires and corporations, who am I to say they are wrong?

2017

Welp.

The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States. “Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan said. “Yeah,” Nixon interjected. Reagan forged ahead with his complaint: “To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes!” Nixon gave a huge laugh.

2018

2019

I can’t believe one of the most Republican Republicans of the Republican Republic is racist. Who knew?

2020

This is what I have been saying. Reagan was a racist. It was obvious from his campaigns that he was a racist.

2021

Just a little locker room racism.

2022
2023

I think only some can’t let go; Republicans refuse to acknowledge how racist that man and his wife were. The rest knew and reveled in it.