playa hatin' (or, let's get a few things straight)

[rone]

Penny Arcade is not funny.
Dave Barry stopped being funny around the time Reagan left office.
Achewood is not funny.
The Onion was funny until they started repeating themselves sometime around `97.  They'll occasionally have a good zinger, but most of their stuff is telegraphed to hell and back.
Jerk City is not funny.
Sinfest is funny until you realize it's a adolescent ripoff of Bloom County with the main character being two-thirds Milo, one third (Watterson's) Calvin.
Something Positive is not funny.
David Letterman is funny only when compared to Jay Leno.
McSweeney's is not funny.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Odd. I was born a week after Nixon was reëlected, so i missed out on Doonesbury until i went to college. Maybe i was just at the right age to buy into his skewering of Bush, but i've become quite a fan of Trudeau's work. In a way, he's helped me acquaint myself with recent political history (which i lacked, as i grew up overseas).

Anyone who thinks Trudeau was never funny has problems, as far as i'm concerned.