The original of this comic used a quote that, as it turned out, was written by a hard right-wing preacher. I had to completely re-letter this strip.
Writing this right now, I am sooooo behind on keeping a buffer of these strips. It’s Sunday, I have tomorrow off of my day job, and I need to do 3 more strips at a minimum to catch up.
I’d do them tonight, but we have guests in from out of town, and there’s reasons. Wine, mostly. Wine, beer, and vodka.
So, what was the original quote?
Wonder what the original quote was…………..
I notice that Alex appears to aim “cross-eyed”. She’s holding the pistol in a right-handed grip, but I don’t see how she can aim with her right eye obscured by that bang. Aiming left-eyed? Or am I reading too much into it?Nice depiction of the optic, BTW…
I’m right handed, shoot right handed and aim with my left eye (when shooting hand guns) because I’m left eye dominant. It’s common and causes no issues.
I shoot right-handed, and I’m right-eye dominant, but my right eye (thanks to presbyopia) is severely farsighted. It works OK for the long-ass rifles that I normally shoot, but for pistol I either have to wear glasses or aim cross-wise. So to me, what Alex is doing doesn’t seem unusual.
I’ll join the chorus of “Looks like she’s cross-dominant, to me”. I checked back, and she was shooting right-eyed with the 10-22. Par for the course with rifle vs pistol.
*whistles innocently*
Good eye, y’all.
I am curious about that quote myself, as well as which Greg Anderson was quoted in the strip today (Google lists five different ones).
hehe… stars jersey.
Good eye!
I don’t know whether to be sad more people did not reference:
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains. The stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
or that I just did.
Personally, I like this quote better:
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Bene Gesserit witch scum! Eleventy!!!!
OK, actually teh litany you mention was the second thing that came to mind in my case and is likely more apt.
Thank you for having the sensitivity to change that! I don’t know what the original was, but it probably avoids you some heavy flaming, keeps people from assuming things about you, and is probably sensitive to your more liberal readers. (Like me – I’m a screaming, flailing liberal and social-justice freak. I’m also an owner and enthusiast of firearms. And I hunt cute little animals, kill them, and eat them. I see no contradiction here).
It’s not really about sensitivity, to be honest. I just don’t feel like having this comic associated in any way with a bigoted fraud.
Truth arrives from all points of the compass. I’m happy to quote LBJ, Reagan, Lenin, or McVeigh. Truth is truth. To me, it’s more bigotry to avoid an idea of value because it comes from somebody you are prejudiced against.
That’s awfully deep.
It’s complete bullshit, but it’s, like, really deep, man. I’m WAY more bigoted than a preacher who tries to pray the gay out of homosexuals so that they won’t burn in hellfire eternal. Helluva point you have there.
I don’t think he meant you’re more bigoted than , he just meant that avoiding ideas just because of the source and ignoring their individual merits is additional bigotry.
Take that how you will.
Choosing not to help promote the distasteful overall ideals of a person because one of their ideas, taken out of context, is one I agree with, is not bigotry.
So somebody said something you agreed with, but because he also said something you DON’T agree with, you no longer agree with what you agreed with?
Hmmmmmm….
I’m going to fall back on the words of Aristotle:
Take your snarky little “hmmmmm” and shove it up your ass.
Wise words, my friend.
More like “somebody said something he agreed with, but because they also said something he doesn’t agree with, he didn’t want to associate with them”. A wise move I wish more people would make; there are too many politicians today who get away with one or two crazy opinions by agreeing with their constituents on most of the other issues.
Or, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Somebody or other said that.
Forget who. Nyaaah.
YAY psychostick =)
now I’m imagining Aristotle telling someone to shove it.
Thank you for that.
Absolutely ANY positive recognition of a complete lying fraud (anyone who says they have a “special” connection to a god) is to be avoided in my personal guidelines.