Heres alittle something for your ear buds Enjoy.

Welcome to the Ogres! Now I get to give you extra crap at the tournament. The only rule here is that we have fun, and it's not a rule as much as a guiding principle. We usually have an official pee corner and pants are optional.

Since I've only been awake for an hour, maybe this is old news but on the news they are reporting that Muammar Qaddafi has been killed.

Am I the only political nerd in here? I think this is big news.

Well fine, I'll talk with myself.

"Hey, how about that Fear Itself?"

"Yeah, WTF? What a pointless ending!"

Now I just made myself sad.

At least Justice League #2 was good.

I gave up on the "Universe Spanning" events some time ago, very few of the recent yearly events have any long term impact.

Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have really expected anything else. That's just how comics work. Lots of explosions, but in the end everything is more or less the same with no consequences. Yeah, Bucky died, but that isn't really a huge universal impact event.

As to Qaddafi, the only positive thing is that his own people (Libyans) did it.

No more politics or we'll get quiet time...

Why'd you quote me and then not say a word about my great news! Come on, I transformed Donald Blake into Thor in the most epic way possible!

I'll keep an eye on this to see if its confirmed. Interesting news, to be sure.

An iconic image/scene from my childhood as well.

My only problem, and I've had problems with it when I was a child as well, is the fact that the mummy is supposed to be this juggernaut. He's lumbering along at that pace. He gets to the door, and it EXPLODES. There's nothing to indicate that he's hit it. It always bugged me.

Anyway, Johnny Quest oozes awesomesauce. The original intro is just freaking genuis, it makes Bond (from the same time) look boring.

In the mid to late nineties I went to a gathering at a friend's place and, for some strange reason, he was playing Johnny Quest; original and unedited. I don't know how he got his hands on them. For the better part of 15 years I'd been watching super-80s-pusso-toons where bullets fly everywhere and no one even gets hit.

So we're sitting there watching it and laughing our asses off at all the politically incorrect characterization that borders on ethnic slur when Race just whips out an M-14 and starts CAPPIN' #####es! And they DIE. Right there on screen!

There was this moment of silent disbelief.

And then we all roared with laughter.

Ah, Johnny Quest, it was a different time.

Video from Aljazeera seems to pretty well confirm it.

Arg.

That's not politics. That's current events!

I think we're all adults here and we don't need permission from anyone to talk about anything and everything. But, I understand how things work on here, so can we get some kind of official sanction that we're allowed to talk about where ever the conversation takes us?

Yes, the climate on here is that people can take cheap shots at FOX news, President Bush, and conservatives in general with impunity, and then when someone actually stands up for the fact that this is patently unjust someone says "let's not get political"; I get that.

But no one's calling names or getting nasty. Isn't that why there's the "no politics" "rule"?

Everything's politics anyway! We're just calling it different things!

The Comic Purists VS License Expansionists is inherently political. You've got conservatives who want to keep things the way they are (were) and liberals who want to liberalize the climate.

We're Ogres. Can't we handle talking about current events and yet still respect one another without getting nasty and name calling?

I think so.

Fight The Power.

*Ogrefist*

Because I forgot what I was going to say. I quoted both texts, then I went to another website to look at job postings, then I came back and was thinking "Uhhh, what was I going to say?" I've since deleted it, but it's cool that Dr. Blake was turned into Thor. Can't get much more fitting than that.