Work in Progress

Visitors and friends: I am taking a little time away from the weekly cartoons in order to prepare a large-scale Diversity Lane book compilation to be published later this year.  Included will be dozens of never-before-seen cartoons.  Also, many of my 150-odd earlier cartoons were originally drawn in a hurry and are being spiffed up and even partially redrawn in order to improve them in every way for inclusion in the book.  As soon as possible I will resume the regular blog postings and emailings.  Till then– thanks for your patience!

Seat No Evil

Dear Martha Coakley:

This letter was actually sent to Coakley prior to her failed bid for office in Massachusetts, by (who else) Jason Sanborn of the always fun Letters to Liberals blog.

Dear Martha Coakley,

It appears that you have been slipping in recent polls.  The seemingly unthinkable now seems possible.  You could lose this election and a seat that has been held by Democrats for many, many years. Your opponent, Scott Brown, has been receiving support from all around America and you are on your last day before the election.

In a last minute plea, you turn to the Great Divider for help.  I suppose that you were unaware of his recent track record as you were unaware that Curt Schilling played for the Red Sox.  Possibly you were too busy defending the citizens from Aqua Teen Hunger Force to notice that the Red Sox won in 2004 and 2007, note Schilling was in the line-up both years.  Obama was not able to help either Deeds in Virginia or Corzine in New Jersey, yet in an act of desperation you were out of options.

This special election comes at an important time.  A time when the People have an opportunity to send a message to Washington that the seat did not belong to Ted Kennedy but that he was endowed by the People to serve and represent them.  This seat now has an opportunity to either hold the 60th vote for Democrat Socialism or to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

Be it only appropriate that our plea for freedom come on this day, to celebrate Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Lord, hear our prayer.  Let Freedom Ring from Lexington to Concord.  Let Freedom Ring from Chatham to Great Williamstown.  Let Freedom Ring from Amesbury to Siasconset.  Let Freedom Ring in the State of Massachusetts to that all of America may hear Freedom Ring.

I implore you on January 19th when you go to the polls to cast your vote along with your fellow citizens of Massachusetts,  that you think of Our Nation, One Nation under God and vote for Scott Brown.

Jason Sanborn

From the soon to be former State of Texas

Sunrise, Sunset

You’re A Grand Old ..? (Part 3)

You’re A Grand Old ..? (Part 2)

You’re A Grand Old ..?

Cloudy, Cold and Unseasonably Violent

Freedomectomy

Fly The Eco-sensitive Skies

Scareport

It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Statism

To Air is Human

Flakes

Attaining Oneness

Twister’d Sister

Making a List and Checking it Twice for Carbon Footprints

Exciting new feature! No commenting!

As a necessary, temporary measure I am disabling this blog’s Leave a Comment option.  A couple leftists persist in leaving copious irrelevant comments that have zero to do with the content of these cartoons except for demonstrating the maturity level of many (but not all) on the left.  Will revisit the comments option in the near future… for now, here’s to the next cartoon, sure to be winging it’s way to subscribers’ mailboxes soon.

Gobbledygook

Humor 001: “The Running Joke”

As promised earlier this month I am herewith posting the first lecture in my Basic Humor course.  This series has been found to be necessary due to the uncommon quantity of noncomprehending visitors to this blog– folks who simply can’t seem to wrap their minds around my cartoons.  This humor deficit seems to be limited to left-leaning visitors; more moderate thinkers have no problem getting my stuff and even finding it reasonably funny. 

I have a possible theory on why the left fails to grasp so much humor, and the culprit once again, no surprise,  may be Manmade Global Warming.  The left is consumed with angst over this non-event.  [A non-event because 1) there is evidence that we may be cooling rather than warming, and 2) warming trends as well as cooling ones have ebbed and flowed over the eons probably since the early days of this planet, with no discernable ancient SUVs or other manmade things in sight to have caused these quixotic temperature changes.  Though, it is possible that modern man with his greenhouse gasses and miscellaneous crap may yet be responsible for temperature variations in past epochs via the newly theorized "carbon time-seepage," in which evil greenhouse gas emissions may actually have traveled backwards in time to wreak havoc on climates past.]  Anyway– in their endless preoccupation over imminently rising, globally warmed oceans and other horrible warm junk the left can’t possibly have mental room for other things– like humor.  They’re just too worried.  I’m hoping my series will help them work around this.

My first lesson pertains to the cartoon called “Zoned Out.”  Many visitors claimed that because I’ve utilized the “it’s cold out; what kinda Global Warming?” thesis in an earlier cartoon, this renders the new one nonvalid or lazy.  These readers need to acquaint themselves with the concept of the “running joke,” also known as the “running gag.”  This is a well-worn idea used in plays, films, TV shows, comic strips and every other species of humor known to man.  My suggestion to stumped or angry visitors and commentors is to go back to Aristophanes, continue reading through the comedies of Shakespeare, onward to Sheridan, Shaw, Wilde and any other notable playwright you can get your hands on and right up into the present.  Note the occurance of these “running jokes.”  When you have attained a full grasp of how such things work, come back to Diversity Lane.  We’ll be waiting for you with, maybe not open arms but certainly a nice organic sandwich.

Colorblindsided

Zoned Out

Scarewaves

Acadimia

Blinded by the Lie