Normally, this particular Moonbat's under my radar...
...but I'll take the karma hit to show a little schradenfreude about the lovely news that Ted "Terror Widows" Rall's strips got tossed from the NYT's website. You can read all the happy details at Rall's own site - just turn your BS detectors all the way down first, because when I say Moonbat, I mean it. And don't think that being a Democrat or a Lefty will help, either: this guy's out somewhere around Pluto.
At any rate, he's in the grips of This Is All The VRWC's Fault... which is funny, because if he was going to be a particular target I'm sure I would have heard about it beforehand. In fact, if it turns out that he was actually the subject of a warblogging exercise and nobody told me, well, let me tell you, I am not going to be happy about that. I don't care if I hang with the centrists, I expect to keep informed about when and where stuff is going down, oh yes...
(Via Michele, although Treacher is equally amused)
Moe
PS: I'd like to note that I've gotten off of my sickbed to write this. Where, oh where, have my cobloggers gone? Grumble grumble grumble...
Only kidding, folks: everybody's probably just busy, I'm sure.
I'd consider the occasional "Terror Widows" acceptable collateral damage for a satirist (I actually agree that the special 9/11 grief went too far - where's the state compensation for women whose children get run over?) but every week was too much. I stopped reading him years ago - he wasn't funny, he didn't teach me anything - the strip just made me feel filthy.
Posted by: rilkefan | March 04, 2004 at 06:14 PM
Hope you feel better soon Moe.
Posted by: Macallan | March 04, 2004 at 06:18 PM
oops - ditto. Lots of bloggers have been complaining of illness lately - is this some east coast thing, or are you all partying together?
Posted by: rilkefan | March 04, 2004 at 06:39 PM
moe, you didn't go to boskone, did you? (everybody seems to have come down sick there...)
Posted by: mark | March 04, 2004 at 07:52 PM
I can't believe you people read Ted Ralls. I thought I was the leftmost guy here, and I read him once. Period.
Get well, Moe. Maybe before me, cause I've been carrying a little something for weeks. Chicken-flu or lemur-flu or something. And I think you missed a great fight at Tac's place.
Posted by: bob mcmanus | March 04, 2004 at 09:59 PM
"a great fight at Tac's place." Are you referring to Timmy needling Trickster amusingly, and Trickster peevishly failing to ignore him?
Posted by: rilkefan | March 04, 2004 at 10:22 PM
Good riddance. Hope they replace his slot with Tom Tomorrow. Similar style, much funnier, and sane.
Posted by: carpeicthus | March 04, 2004 at 10:43 PM
damn, I meant "unamusingly" above.
Tom Tomorrow doesn't do much for me. How about Ann Telnaes?
Posted by: rilkefan | March 04, 2004 at 10:47 PM
What is your cob and why does it need to be logged? If it makes you feel any better, I hope you find your cobloggers soon.
Hope you're not too sick to watch TV. What better time to catch up on old Bevery Hilbilly reruns.
Posted by: fabius | March 05, 2004 at 07:59 AM
Ted Rall rants like a lunatic, but it's only within that loose cannon realm that certain ideas were made clear to me. I sometimes thought he crossed over into moonbat territory, but in general, I think his voice is valid.
Posted by: Edward | March 05, 2004 at 08:10 AM
I think his voice is valid.
Whatever that means. What he has to say, sadly, rarely is.
Posted by: Slartibartfast | March 05, 2004 at 10:58 AM
If he could draw, I'd care more.
Now Ben Sargent. . that fellow has skills.
Posted by: sidereal | March 05, 2004 at 01:46 PM