Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 15, 2013

Oh boy, do I relate to that !

You might be well advised to do so. :)

Is it earlier than I thought, or do most of you have writer’s block?

@DTπ – Paraphrasing: on Sunday you used the copyright date to “prove” the strip wasn’t a repeat, I said that wasn’t dependable, you said changing it is illegal, and for the last 2 days we had an exchange about legalities. I want to put this to rest, even though you may, based on a your comment near the end of yesterday, not see it.First, it may not be as widespread as I had thought. I went to the other strips where I thought I had seen it, and the creator used the original copyright while on vacation, even though the run date (the 1-14 at the bottom of panel 2 here) had changed.Second, I found an example showing it isn’t illegal to change the copyright. The For Better or For Worse strip is in rerun; but each repeat has the current year in the copyright, rather than the year it was first published. For example, today it has ©2013, rather than the ©1994 in the original. In the repeat, the 1-16 run date has been removed from the bottom of panel 2, and 1-15 added between panels 3 and 4, That it’s in color online has nothing to do with the copyright change. The b&w strip in my newspaper also has ©2013.I don’t know why the copyright has changed from the original. In Canada, where Lynn Johnston, the strip’s creator, resides, it’s in effect for 50 years (70 years in the U.S. after 1998) after she dies, so changing it, doesn’t extend it.Peanuts is also in rerun, but it has the ©1966 copyright. Perhaps that’s because its creator died February 12, 2000. Could be interesting what happens in 2050, when the copyright on most of those will run out, but those drawn after 1998 will still be copyrighted until 2070. It’s highly unlikely that I’ll be around for either.But there may be other examples. I just wanted to show one.

He does get paid, just not for blogging on huffpo.

Come back Pi!

boehner should have taken the deal august of 2011.

The term “GOP retreat” is apropos, since they had been attacking – women’s rights, economic justice, religious freedom, to name a few, were under attack, and most likely will be again, after the GOP regroup.

Listen everyone: The GOP had a retreat in Baltimore. i.e. ameeting of Republicans. sheesh! soooooo defensive!

The only retreat the GOP has been doing is into the land of “Hell NO!”.

Obviously, “retreat” here doesn’t mean to back off; rather, a corporate-backed vacation for middle-aged white guys and their female hangers-on to determine who stole the last election from them. No, they never retreat; as an environmentalist once said, “Their victories are permanent. Ours are under constant attack.”

This is a glimpse into the future. The printed page is giving way to the digital tablet in the same manner as the cuneiform clay tablet to papyrus. When traditionalists with ink stained thumbs quit subscribing and go exclusively online with the younger set, death of the hard copy age is near. In the future there are probably only two outcomes. The first might be surviving daily newspapers end up as digital aggregators with minimal staffing, plant, and equipment, while surviving journalists become freelance pajama types hoping to sell their stuff to the surviving aggregators like starving artists do today. The possible alternative for the dailies, at one time known as “public watchdogs,” is to get “stimulus” funding from the looming one party national government and officially perform the exact same propaganda function they now semi-surreptitiously do as volunteers.

Anyway, why would the GOP retreat after their stunning victory in the 2012 election? They have a mandate now! Just ask them.

That was a GOP retweet.

@Linguist

Thank you for that excellent summary; it describes exactly what has been done with my local paper, and it’s interesting to know that this is an industry-wide phenomenon. I miss perusing the international news over breakfast, along with the local news and the “education section” (as my dad used to call the comics), but I definitely do want to see what’s going on in the schools, the legislature, the business community, and so on. I want to know about local folks’ good works as well as who shot the cop in the park. With some effort, I’m learning to look elsewhere for the international news beyond the smidgen the Denver paper offers.

*Not only the citywide papers will remain in this new format, but the neighborhood papers are flourishing, at least hereabouts. As you say, people do want to know what’s gong on in their own back yards. Good writers abound, it seems (can’t say the same for good proofreaders, though…every periodical I read is deteriorating in that respect), and the neighborhood papers give them a platform. So, as with books, while the electronic formats will continue to evolve, the print versions will, too. Thank goodness.

#delusionalrantThe Republican “compromise” on the Fiscal Cliff was to allow a modest tax rate increase on the top incomes. Everything else- closing loopholes & spending cuts, was merely put off for a couple months. The GOP figured the debt ceiling fight would give them more leverage against Obama & the Democrats. When your negotiating tactic stoops to taking our economy as a hostage, you have a dysfunctional party.And your comments on the Executive Orders supporting Historically Black Colleges?#racistdogwhistleCarter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton & G.W. Bush all passed similar executive orders. Were they all racists?http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/whhbcu/about-us/

I do hope that not all “surviving journalists [will] become freelance pajama types.” Most of the news isn’t happening in the journalists’ homes!

As well as other beneficial byproducts….

Don’t worry, rr, you’ll still be rich when the dust settles.

What is obamafoam?