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Friday Funnies

Nominating Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court

Henry Payne | 5.28.2010 7:00 AM

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  1. heller   15 years ago

    Yawn.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   15 years ago

    Nathan Lane went to Harvard?

  3. Jordan Elliot   15 years ago

    Accurate, if not exactly hilarious. To paraphrase Ralph:

    "It's funny, but not haha funny."

  4. Groovus Maximus   15 years ago

    I think Obama has Pinocchio's Disease of the ears. Every cartoon I see of him his ears get bigger and bigger.

    His pinna in real life are positively enormous.

    1. Untermensch   15 years ago

      It probably means something that caricatures of him and Bush shared this same feature.

      1. The Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

        They both use their ears for listenin', but to the wrong people. Am I right? Am I right?

    2. JT   15 years ago

      I think you'll notice that as time passes in a presidency, and people start to like the president less and less, the cartoons of them get progressively more visually distorted.

  5. ?   15 years ago

    Yes, Kagan really does look like Lou Costello, and Obama really does have those inbred Dumbo ears.

    1. JoshINHB   15 years ago

      She looks more like a short Kevin James in drag.

      1. Butts Wagner   15 years ago

        as an added bonus, she's just as funny as Kevin James

        1. The Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

          Win.

          1. Butts Wagner   14 years ago

            Whoa, I got a win from Art-POG once!

            1. Butts Wagner   14 years ago

              I can say that again

          2. Butts Wagner   14 years ago

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  6. ?   15 years ago

    A Reasonoid commenter made the same observation as Henry Payne did in this cartoon, yesterday or the day before. And I may have wrote a comment, possibly a week ago, questioning what kind of diversity is 33.333% of a Supreme Court of the United States that is hideous ugly carpet munchers, as if a third of the U.S. population is such. Then again I may have been drinking and only imagined I posted it. Only the Shadow knows. Either way the diversity angle is worn out.

    1. WTF   15 years ago

      How do you know if Scalia or Kennedy have ever munched carpet?

      1. ?   15 years ago

        Scalia and Roberts just want a little of that Bader-Ginsberg stink on their fingers. Kennedy is more into fisting Sotomayer.

  7. ?   15 years ago

    Genuine diversity would be appointing the fine young lass in the side bar wearing the "I survived Roe v. Wade shirt. Not all American women are horrific looking. Those who aren't deserve a voice and a chance to legislate from the bench too.

    1. Tim   15 years ago

      Hot women deserve representation too!

      1. DJF   15 years ago

        Lobster Girl for the Supreme Court!!!!!

    2. WTF   15 years ago

      New criteria for selecting SCOTUS justices? I can see the questionnaire now:

      "321. How hot are you? Circle the appropriate number:

      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10."

      1. ?   15 years ago

        Personally, I'd have no problem with that.

        It would be tough to make any more of a mockery of SCOTUS than the justices have already made of it for the past century or more.

    3. Jorgen   15 years ago

      you know, you're sort of a piece of shit.

      1. ?   15 years ago

        No "sort of" about it. I'm for the individual, the only genuine and real diversity. In your opinion that should make me a complete piece of shit. Nonetheless, your compliment has been noted (despite your lack sincerity).

  8. MP   15 years ago

    Nick Anderson did almost the exact same cartoon three weeks ago. And I don't live in Houston, so I either saw it syndicated in my local paper or in The Week.

    Either way, piss poor job this week Henry.

    1. ?   15 years ago

      I looked and it is very similar, but the composition of the drawing is completely different.

      Very sharp of you to have spotted it, but should you really be that hard on Henry? Maybe it's just a case of great minds thinking ...similarly.

  9. Enjoy Every Sandwich   15 years ago

    I would make one adjustment: the labels on the chairs (excepting the vacant one) and on Kagan's shirt should be "mouth-breathing statist".

    1. Attorney   15 years ago

      This.

    2. ?   15 years ago

      Now that wasn't a very P.C. of a thing to write.

      Great job, may life reward you well. And if it doesn't, damn it, at least you were honest and honesty outshines P.C. every time.

  10. mr simple   15 years ago

    I like it. It didn't make me laugh but it actually has a pertinent point. Better than average.

    1. The Art-P.O.G.   15 years ago

      This.

  11. sage   15 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    1. ?   15 years ago

      I was going to do the same, but the serious nature of the issue just put a pain in my guts without the laugh.

      Honestly, I can't decide who today is the bigger enemy of the Constitution and our liberties, the politicians or the SCOTUS justices.

  12. Mark   15 years ago

    Does anyone know how many studied under the same professors?

    It seems to me the institution has less influence than the professor developing the curricula.

    1. ?   15 years ago

      You present a valid point worthy of further examination. That's my opinion at least, since I can't answer your question.

  13. Pro Libertate   15 years ago

    Here's the Friday Piss-Me-Off Not-Funny.

    I bet the artist thinks "First they came for the Jews" is a hoot, too.

    1. anarch   15 years ago

      But it is funny, if not risible, by satirizing those who trivialize the Niem?ller principle.

      Oh, y'mean it wasn't intending to do that?

      Yowz.

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