I Feel Insulted...

Given my long period of unemployment, checking the mail has become a dreaded task. My funds are completely dry and I'm getting bills I can't pay. It just makes me feel worse and worth less than my currently negative worth.  Imagine my surprise when I open my mailbox and I have one of those perforate envelopes that says, "CHECK ENCLOSED."

I'm Just Not Even Going to Try to Make the Joke on Her Name for This

Orly Taitz, Czarina of the Birthers, filed a suit on behalf of an Army Captain named Connie Rhodes who was seeking a restraining order against being deployed to Iraq because she (the captain) was concerned that President Obama was a shining beacon of Christianity, Capitalism, Apple Pie, Superman, and all the other stuff the Founding Fathers held dear to their hearts as they founded This Great Nation. illegitimately president since she's not sure he's a natural-born citizen.

Today, the suit was dismissed for being frivolous in the most awesome way possible.

The X-Men Are Jerks Pt. 2

For some reason, I thought that Unus the Untouchable was issue #4 and so I was expecting to cover the X-Assholery from that issue too, but nope.  It's a long string of tales featuring the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants after this, so that's the next post on this.

In this issue, we start getting the characterizations we know and love.  We already had the playfulness of Iceman and Warren being a playboy, but now we have Scott angsting over his uncontrollable power, the erudite Beast, and the romance between Jean and Scott.

Reviewing 40+ Years of the X-Men: Professor Xavier Is a Jerk and So Are the X-Men.

You know why the world hates and fears you, X-Men?  Maybe because they're pretty cool with you in the first two issues and you act like a bunch jerks.  I got the DVD containing every issue of [Uncanny] X-Men so let's look at issues #1 and #2, with some Silver-Age Super Dickery, Ass Kissing, and Screwing Around.

Just A Quick Check...

In the aftermath of Pres. Obama speaking to this nation's children, did we turn into an oppressive socialist nightmare yet?