It looks like the Globe comics editor has caved to public pressure and restored Red and Rover to the Sidekick section. What a shame.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Terrorists win on the comics page
19-Sep-07It’s bad enough that daily comic strips like Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore run two weeks behind the political times. Reading them is like watching the Daily Show on a malfunctioning Tivo, except that the jokes are even staler than the news. But Globe columnists like Jeff Jacoby turn irrelevance into an art form. A good [...]
Red and Rover can keep roving
14-Sep-07Dear Boston Globe:
I voted for it (like there was a choice), but Red and Rover is gone, and good riddance. Inauthentic fan letters notwithstanding, the strip is nothing more than a marketing ploy, fine-tuned to hit two notes (baby boomers and their children) in cynically calibrated harmony.
The strip is set in the 1950s, featuring tin [...]
A September 11 kind of day
13-Sep-07September 11, 2001 was the kind of glorious, late-summer day that makes living in New England worthwhile. Its clear blue skies provided a flawless, natural canvas for the human atrocity that would unfold that morning. So it brings some relief to me that this year the spectacular September weather shifted by a day, and 9/11/2007 [...]
It’s time to forgive the Iraq war hawks
12-Sep-07MoveOn’s misguided attack on General Patraeus raises the specter of time-warping back to another post-conflict culture war, something the US can ill-afford right now. Whether Sunnis and Shiites can reconcile or not, it is time that the Iraq War hawks and doves reconcile and truly move on to something more productive.
Now that the anti-war partisans [...]
Why is a general setting US policy?
12-Sep-07For all his chest-beating machismo, when the chips are down George W. Bush shows that he ain’t no commander-in-chief. Good riddance to that notion.
But without a President with a plan, no civilian is overseeing the military. Regardless of whether people believe Petraeus is presenting an honest assessment or not, since when does the military set [...]