Reader Mail of the Week

Mister "Creator",

This is why our nation is doomed.

Liberal, sarcastic elitists like yourself, with your stupid f*cking mocking lists,  have just given the steering wheel of our nation to a socialist. Yes, socialist.

John SYDNEY McCain (not a girl's name) was our best, last chance.

But you and your progressive friends just let a communist wolf into the henhouse. We, the citizens of the United States are the hens, get it? About to be ripped apart by the socialist fangs of the LIBERAL Obama. How could you let a communist wolf-devil eat the hens?!?!?! Don't you see? The hens-- we Americans (or Amerihens)--are done for.  The socialist Obama-wolf is going to drag our Amerihen corpses back to the LIBERAL wolf pack, where all of the LIBERAL devils are going to feast on us.

You let this happen, this doom.  DOOM!

Think I'm kidding? I know your going to put this up on your site for everyone to laugh at. But I don't care.

This Amerihen escaped from the coop and will avoid the LIBERAL jaws of Obama and his LIBERAL wolfs.

Burn in Hell You LIBERAL Scumbag,

Pat T.
Franconia, New Hampshire

P.S.

Do you think making your list the top 11 makes it original? I hope Letterman sues you.

Random Zeros

Read This:
20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill

Still working my way through this collection of short stories.  The media is positioning this work--and Joe Hill, from what I can tell-- as "horror" fiction. While that may true to some extent, these stories transcend what is typically thought of as the horror fiction genre.  There is a certain eloquence and humanity to Mr. Hill's writing that really elevates this collection. 

I'm no literary critic; not once have I been able to read the New Yorker from front to back cover (although I have tried on several occasions), but there is something in Mr. Hill's writing that really speaks to the soul.  What does that mean, "Speaks to the soul'? I guess it means that the experiences of the characters were something I could really relate to on some emotional level.  Obviously, I have never turned into a giant locust like one of Mr. Hill's protagonists does, but there is something in the intense loneliness and desire to belong that this character feels that I could empathize with. Now, I know you're probably thinking,  "Giant locust. Yeah, right."  Okay fine, maybe that doesn't sound like Pulitzer Prize winning subject matter to you , but please trust me on this (and I have to assume that you do, because you read my comic strip). This is great writing. 

I encourage you to purchase a copy of this book and give this collection of short stories a try.

Please support this author!

Faithfully Submitted,

The Creator

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Quotes From Dick

"I had other priorities in the sixties than military service."

--April 5, 1989, In reference to his 5 draft deferments during the Vietnam War.