Brant Parker, RIP, Was Wizard of Id Illustrator

Odd timing.

 LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) _ Brant Parker, who for decades illustrated “The Wizard of Id” comic strip, has died just days after the passing of his collaborator. He was 86.

Parker died Sunday at a nursing facility in Lynchburg

“The worst mass murder in U.S. history”

(H/T:  Don Surber, Michelle Malkin, Jawa Report )

(Shame:  Google )

Ace makes an interesting point today, almost offhandedly while discussing a different angle… which is often… indeed, in my experience, usually, how such points are made. Even he admidts this is off the cuff on his part.  He speaks of

Yesterday, April 18, 2007, was an ironic day.   At 30 Rockefeller Plaza, what can  be described as a mult-media version of the Unabomber Manifesto was delivered to NBC News, from the Blacksburg killer, Cho Seung-Hui a.k.a. Ismael Ax.

Meanwhile

These people had names, faces and stories.   They need to be heard.   It is not the time for moving on.  It is the time to grieve.

(H/T and BSWK photo: Pamela Geller Oshry, Atlas Shrug.)

About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices.  The situation, has not changed, except for the worse.  The causes are the same as they were then.  So, let’s revisit what I said two years

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve

NEW YORK â€”AP-  Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” has died at age 96, her son said Wednesday.

Christopher Hart said his mother

All it took to kill Geoge Allen was one slip of the tongue.   Well, if the attributed quote is accurate, Barack Obama has just had his Macaca moment.  According to Texas Rainmaker, Obama said:

“the violence of men and

Sister Toldjah is on the emerging story that Cho Seung-Hui used the nom de plume of “Ismail Ax”   The possible Islamic connections should not be over looked.

I find it interestng, revealing and disturbing that idiots like Keith

Too often, bloggers act as if they invented the world the day they came on the scene.

Don Surber. 

I hasten add that the phenomenom is not necessarily restricted to bloggers.

Boortz raises an interesting point… although I think he’s not spot on, with it;

How far have we advanced in the wussification of America?  I am now under attack by the left for wondering aloud why these students did

Saying the second amendment is inconsequential is foolish, in my view. If we don’t support demonstrably just laws, such as the second amendment, don’t UNjust laws have greater sway?

Out.

Joe Biden called Barack Obama “clean and articulate”   .   You can listen to Biden, here.

Well you can also listen to Obama here.   Warning: while the audio is not good, Obama himself is flat out horrid.   The clip

Ana Marie Cox has her knickers in a twist over this statement by John Derbyshire, NRO – Corner:

As NRO’s designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the