Welcome to your weekend open thread. Are you ready for the Superbowl? Who are you cheering for? I’m rooting for Green Bay. I did my graduate work in Wisconsin, so it’s required.
This story is awesome and full of win.
Around 9 this morning I got messaged by a few twitter followers that a group called National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had posted a comic of mine. This was the comic, which was in no way conceived of or related to gay rights issues.
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My first response was to ask my followers to post some ascii dicks to their comment board. Unfortunately, they moderate their comments there. Then, someone told me that they had hotlinked the image. In case you’re not aware, “hotlinking” means the image they display is accessed directly from my database. That is, whatever image their computer requests from my computer, their computer gets.
This presented an opportunity.
I messaged my brother/webguru Marty Weiner, who sprung into action. He worked on figuring out how to change the image without affecting the SMBC main page while I worked on finding an image. My initial idea was to post some dirty pictures, but I figured I could get more traction if I went the classy route.
Heh. I wonder how the people visiting the NOM website reacted?
There seems to be a lot of stories about how all these new Republican representatives are completely clueless about health care. The latest is Ann Marie Buerkle from NY:
Buerkle, who voted to repeal the health care reform act, was twice asked about the health insurance she receives as a government employee. At first she said she couldn’t understand why people were so interested in her health insurance, and that taxpayers didn’t pay anything for it. She later corrected herself after being handed a note from a staffer. Like most employees, she pays for a portion of her insurance and her employer, the government, pays the rest, she said.
She didn’t even realize that taxpayers are paying 70% of her healthcare costs. I bet she thinks it’s easy to get coverage and that we should take a chicken to the doctor or something.