Turns out the people that Evangelical Protestants hate the most aren't gays or atheists -- and definitely not Democrats. It's...Mormons???

Strange, but true.

The U.S. Constitution prohibits a religious test for public office, but that is precisely what is being posed now. Prominent, respectable Evangelical Christians have told me, not for quotation, that millions of their co-religionists cannot and will not vote for Romney for president solely because he is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If Romney is nominated and their abstention results in the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton, that's just too bad. The Evangelicals are adamant, saying there is no way Romney can win them over.

I actually find it more shocking than even racism that in the year 2006 American Protestant sects comprised largely of Northern European descandants still hate each other openly.

There will be no new Cash this week. I'm going Backpacking on California's Lost Coast. It will be wonderful. Here's the 10 Day Forecast.

Have a great week. Pictures when I return.

Man, I've been out of the comics game for months. All the complicated crossovers and "Crisis" stories turned me off (not to mention the prices). BUT! In prep for Superman Returns, DC seems to be churning out some impressive collections. I'll be getting this. And this.

It's happening!

In case you missed it, that's the accountant from "Economics." But really who cares? Everyone's getting horny here!

Besides, there's always this awesome photo Leslie took of Alan/Cash at APE:

From the beginning of an AP article on minority test scores.

Minorities -- who historically haven't fared as well as whites in testing -- make up the vast majority of students whose scores are being excluded, AP found. And the numbers have been rising.

How should that opening phrase read? "Black and Latino students -- who historically haven't fared as well as whites *and Asians* in testing..."

When it comes to reporting on public schools and education, the press almost always leaves out the high (usually higher than whites) performance of Asians. Apparently, because Asian students do well, and the stories' pre-determined theme is that minorities struggle, Asians' accomplishments are therefore unimportant or simply folded into white students'. This has always struck me as a sort of benign racism.

Anyway, way, way down in the story they finally mention Asian performance, but it's very unclear, and seems to reflect that even the statisticians don't do a very good job of reconciling high Asian scores with other minority scores.

For ballsy articles like this.

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You know, a few years back, some Senator broached the idea of letting Britain join NAFTA. That'd be pretty interesting.

Archives? Totally fixed. It only took me 2 years and Liz's help. Thanks Liz!

So the Ninth Circuit (Circus?) ruled that it's unconstitutional to arrest homeless people who lounge and sleep on the street.

They ruled it's a violation of the 8th Amendment.

I'm not sure if it's "cruel and unusual" but it does seem to fly in the face of the 300 years of English-language laws that have banned sending people to debtors' prison. In short, you can't criminalize people being poor.

But, on the flipside, people sleeping on the streets is a violation of the public health and may spread disease. If public anti-smoking laws premised on restricting the spread of secondhand smoke can stand up in court, why can't laws the effectively restrict the spreading of communicable diseases carried by the homeless stand up?

But, on the flipside to the flipside, arrresting homeless people seems like a waste of police and legal resources and is just as ridiculous as arresting people for pot.

Here's 50 billion dollars in cash that you can only spend on infrastructure repair/building in California.

What do you do with it?

They got the "wave more U.S. flags!" thing right for their second set of marches, but now they've taken a big step backward. Here's yet more proof that the pro-illegal immigration movement is run by idiots.

The Great American Boycott" is spreading south of the border, as activists call for Mexicans to boycott U.S. businesses on May 1.

The protest is timed to coincide with a May 1 boycott of work and shopping in the United States that also has been dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants." The boycott, which grew out of huge pro-migrant marches across the United States, is designed to pressure Congress to legalize millions of undocumented people ...

... Ironically, the protest targets the U.S. business community, which is one of the strongest supporters of legalization or guest-worker programs.

141 years ago Abraham Lincoln died for America's sins.

Seriously, the CENTCOM campaign analysis for action against Iran is called "TIRANNT"? I guess it stands for "Theatre Iran Near Term," but what are we, Bond villains?

"Mr. Rumsfeld, launch the TIRANNT satellite on my command..."

New Cash strip is up, I've figured out how to stop posting the "Gay Bar" video, taxes are awful, and my contribution to Cake Pony madness - "Daisy" - is up at Cake Pony. Welcome to Thursday.

NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of the currently (always?) grounded Space Shuttle. When I was a wee boy, I remember thinking the Space Shuttle was the shizznit. Then I hated it for a long time. Then I decided to respect the rather amazing engineering of this white elephant, without respecting its mission. You could say, I support the shuttle, but I don't support its "war" on low-Earth orbit!

Anyway, here's to an amazing 25 Years of Eh...

(The Hubble repair stuff was neat, though. I'll give it that.)

If Bush actually does launch nukes (tactical or otherwise) at Iran, then how funny is this video going to be? So funny.

Cash milliondollars, live at A.P.E. in San Francisco this weekend!

Woohoo!

The list is short, but odd, these days:

carrot art
carrot pillow
carly patterson
sexy comic covers



I'm so glad Olympic Village is still bringing us hits.

Rather amusing description of the anti-logic underpinning those never-ending French "we don't want jobs" riots. (Say what you want about illegal immigrants in the U.S, but those folks are here to work. Me love North America!)

The government claims relaxing the hideous web of laws that make it nearly impossible to fire a French worker will give more jobs to more people — who can then be fired to make room for more people who could also be fired. That's a French solution. In fact, increasing the number of jobs would require an expanding economy, something France hasn't had for years, partly because it's impossible to fire anybody.

In principle, however, the protests are significant because they show the future of economic reform in Old Europe. Today's French lesson: You cannot take back entitlements from people who have been told they’re entitled to them.

Societies run better when they run on what people want, rather than when the government tells people what they need.

(With the exception of SUVs. In this case, the people can all suck it.)

I will be at the Alternative Press Expo this weekend pimping Mastodon City and the brand new Cash Milliondollars collections. I'll also be selling some prints of "How To Tie A Tie" and if anybody who reads this is interested in those you should let me know so I can put one aside.

As an extra special bonus, one Mr. Alan Bloom will be there LIVE and IN PERSON as Cash Milliondollars, wandering the convention hall in a drunken haze, driving the masses towards our table full of wonderments.

So if you're going to be in San Francisco this weekend, or are bored and think maybe you should just drive to San Francisco to enjoy the Milliondollars-y goodness, then come on by. You will love the crap out of it, then we'll hire an illegal immigrant to clean up all that crap, and you can love it some more.

My name is kind of bad, but at least I have a Senator (Asa Hutchinson) and a soap opera character (Asa Buchanan) so I get a little recognition sometimes. My cousin Jangela on the other hand...

She must be from LA. The J gives it Zazz!

It's pretty amazing to think the changes that occured in American society between 1955 and 2005.

I'm sorry, but is Katie Couric even an actual journalist?

Please note that I have added CAKE PONY to the side bar, because it is funny and good.

When we went to see Slither (I liked it) on friday night at the Arclight and the theatre was relatively empty I knew it would be a bomb. People in LA see everything. If the theatre is empty in LA on a friday then the theatres are empty everywhere.

What I did not see, and could not guage that incredible floppitude of, was Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction. I can only imagine that subtitle will come back to haunt them as they they think about how much money they sunk into a movie nobody wanted, 10 years after anybody was even thinking about wanting it. Sharon Stone should get the Risk Addiction producers together with the dolts that made Catwoman.

Slither (projected based on Friday gross): $3.8 million
Basic Instinct 2 (projected based on Friday gross): $3.3 million

PS- Slither was probably really cheap, not so for Risk Addiction.

Alrighty here's the deal... I am going with the Atrox gang to the Alternative press Expo in San Francisco next weekend. I'm a little behind the curve in getting stuff ready, as in starting today, but I do want to put together a small Cash collection to give out (or sell for a pittance, as is done with mini-comics). So this would be your big chance to head over to the Cash Archives, shuffle through my wares, and let me know which are your favorite strips that should be included.

Thanks!