Daily Archives: April 16, 2012

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Game of Thrones Deconstructed: Casting a Long Shadow

What’s the best way to get what you want in Westeros? Well, by taking out your enemies, naturally. Well, how do you identify your enemies when they’re hidden amongst the rubes and foils, the robes of the aristocratic, and the smirks and winks of the cunning? There’s no better way than to set a trap. Tyrion understands that if you want to find a backstabber, you better give them a pretty sharp knife. Continue reading

Political Cartoon Round Up

What a week of some cartoon-worthy political events.  War on Women. Failed Missile Launches. Return of the Buffet Rule. Santorum bowing out. GSA party scandal. Zimmerman arrested. Crazy stuff makes for some good cartoons. I invite you to post cartoons you find worthy as well.

As a reminder before you start Thunderdoming — I will certainly be posting cartoons that I do not agree with the opinions of the artist. So please do not make the assumption that by posting a cartoon here that I agree with it. I simply found it interesting, enraging, thought-provoking or amusing.

With that caveat, let us begin.

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The Tax Man Cometh

Tomorrow is the deadline for filing your 2011 taxes in the US. Maybe you owe money and dread writing that check. Or maybe you just realized that you never got your W-2.

Really though, if you haven’t filed by now you might as well just send in an extension and go back to whatever Master of Procrastination activity you’ve been doing for the last three months. If you’re bound and determined to get them done today; Go, get off the internet, what are you doing here? For everyone else, here is a game. Rewrite the tax code. How would you make it “fair”. Also or alternately what would you fund or defund?

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Opium Dreams: Girls Pilot

Picture this: You’re 24 and two years out of college with nothing to show for it except an unpaid internship you have been at for over a year. You get by on your parents’ monthly donation and do not expect that to end anytime in the foreseeable future. You live with your best friend, Marnie, who happens to be dating a guy she can hardly stand but keeps him around for, well, we don’t know why she keeps him around. Your friend, Jessa, has just moved back to New York City from Paris and is all long blonde hair and oozes bohemian sex vibes. Jessa is staying with her cousin, Shoshanna, who could be accurately described as a “Sex and the City Victim.” You know the type, thinking life is going to full of pink drinks and mind-blowing sex, thanks to Carrie Bradshaw and her cohorts. Lastly, there’s your fuck buddy, Adam. He routinely ignores your texts and is an unsatisfying lover anyway.

Meet Hannah Horvath. This is her story. Continue reading