Comments on: I'm not the only one!

I'm not the only one!

ajpresto — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:50:32 -0800

Conspiracy theories are my friend.... And I thought I was the only one. For the longest time, I have thought that there has been no evidence to tie Osama bin Laden and the WTC attack. At least one other nut agrees with me (via BoingBoing.net).

By: kaemaril

kaemaril — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:00:43 -0800

No, conspiracy theories are NOT your friend... ... they just want you to THINK they are :)

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:22:11 -0800

As far as the JFK stuff come to Dallas, in a few weeks the news circus will be here, even the living eyewitnesses.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:34:07 -0800

"rut-ro" [window-table-door-window-table-door]

By: brownpau

brownpau — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:40:29 -0800

At first I thought I was reading Chick tracts.

By: cell divide

cell divide — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:02:14 -0800

Setting the exact content aside, I have to say that I am continually impressed by the ability of the comic form to come up with clear and concise ways of expressing "lessons" of all types, including Chick tracts, Joe Sacco's work, MAUS, and others. It really packs a punch that no other medium can really match for a particular mode of expression.

By: banished

banished — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 16:34:54 -0800

When I first saw the towers go down I thought it was those anti-globalization protesters.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:17:20 -0800

I just don't know about that.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:45:49 -0800

had anyone noticed that rarely do you see language like "WTC attack" in communication, particularly in the print and broadcast media. it's always "the events of 9/11". it's almost as if the nation were a victorian girl, who, forced by circumstance to discuss her private parts with a male doctor, resorts to speaking in hushed whispers about a problem "down there".

By: beth

beth — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:48:45 -0800

quonsie, maybe because people want to refer to the whole shebang of 9/11, including the pentagon and that other plane downed in Pennsylvania, rather than solely the attack that destroyed the WTC.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:49:15 -0800

No, conspiracy theories are NOT your friend... ... they just want you to THINK they are :) Conspiracy theories have secretly replaced your friend and are only pretending to be him/her in order to get close to you.... Yes, quonsar, I had noticed that. lol

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:50:43 -0800

ok, well, i'm not seeing much in the way of "the day they blew the shit out of manhattan and the pentagon" either. the point isn't the locations, the point is the cringing reluctance to name it.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:52:06 -0800

oops. should have quoted beth there...

By: ajpresto

ajpresto — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:54:35 -0800

How about calling it a bombing? I love that. There was no bomb on any of the plains. No bomb involved at all, but it's still a bombing? I guess that's tending to go away, but I sure heard that a lot at the beginning.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:58:17 -0800

Where is boingboing, anyway?

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:23:58 -0800

ok, well, i'm not seeing much in the way of "the day they blew the shit out of manhattan and the pentagon" either. the point isn't the locations, the point is the cringing reluctance to name it. I still think of it as the day they devalued the anniversary of tupac's death. Also, as the day we almost lost Rod Roddy. He gave us two more good years.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:40:31 -0800

"You'll be stunned as you hear high-level Mormons describe how their god lives on a faraway planet, busily engaged in perpetual sexual relations with his many wives to produce millions of spirit babies to inhabit the bodies of humans. You will listen with disbelief as they describe that this is the future godhood they hope to attain to as well."

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:45:54 -0800

You will listen with disbelief.

By: synecdoche

synecdoche — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:13:35 -0800

I thought the comic was interesting if nothing else but it sure could use some footnotes.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:12:39 -0800

Here's more information about LBJ and the alleged mistress quoted in the comic. (A .pdf file, for those of you keeping score at home.)