The Off Topic Topic

[dps]

Canada is spending $500.000.000 on the 150th anniversary celebrations. I don't think the MacKay cartoon is accurate. Of course, I've never seen a MacKay cartoon that was accurate, so that is hardly a surprise.

Aren't political cartoons supposed to be exaggerations and not literally accurate?

[The Brain]

Canada is spending $500.000.000 on the 150th anniversary celebrations. I don't think the MacKay cartoon is accurate. Of course, I've never seen a MacKay cartoon that was accurate, so that is hardly a surprise.

Aren't political cartoons supposed to be exaggerations and not literally accurate?

So you think Der Stürmer is fine??

[HVC]

What are the colonized and occupied parts supposed to represent?

[Jacob]

Beets?

The MacKay cartoons are actually drawn by Ed Anger and CdM, so naturally they wanted to get a dig in at Tamas.

[Jacob]

Canada is spending $500.000.000 on the 150th anniversary celebrations. I don't think the MacKay cartoon is accurate. Of course, I've never seen a MacKay cartoon that was accurate, so that is hardly a surprise.

Aren't political cartoons supposed to be exaggerations and not literally accurate?

When I said "accurate" I didn't mean "literally accurate" I meant "accurate even within the relaxed parameters of editorial cartoons."

[Jacob]

What are the colonized and occupied parts supposed to represent?

MacKay having a fit about people acknowledging the less than stellar methods used against and outcomes for our Native populations from the creation of Canada.

[Josephus]

Not sure why only Malthus gets asked the question. 

Anyway, yes. Canada 150 is going to be a big thing. And we're certainly glad we're not Yanks right now

[Admiral Yi]

And we're certainly glad we're not Yanks right now

Wait until October. 

[HVC]

Not sure why only Malthus gets asked the question. 

If any thing Valmy should have reached out to his Canadian doppelganger

[Valmy]

The reason I asked Malthus was because he had just posted a few minutes before so I figured he was still online

[Valmy]

Beets?

The MacKay cartoons are actually drawn by Ed Anger and CdM, so naturally they wanted to get a dig in at Tamas.

Ok. But can you explain he giant rubber ducky under the upside down Canadian flag?

[Jacob]

Ok. But can you explain he giant rubber ducky under the upside down Canadian flag?

I'm guessing it's this: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/05/30/giant-rubber-duck-toronto_n_16882646.html

[dps]

Canada is spending $500.000.000 on the 150th anniversary celebrations. I don't think the MacKay cartoon is accurate. Of course, I've never seen a MacKay cartoon that was accurate, so that is hardly a surprise.

Aren't political cartoons supposed to be exaggerations and not literally accurate?

When I said "accurate" I didn't mean "literally accurate" I meant "accurate even within the relaxed parameters of editorial cartoons."

Fair 'nuff.

[Admiral Yi]

From an Economist article about the Grand Turk's campaign to rid Turkish of foreign loan words I learned that "bosh" is derived from the Turkish word for nonsense, "bos."

[11B4V]

 the cult of the kiddie diddlers are at it again

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-australia-cardinal-charged-20170628-story.html