Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 24, 2014
July 18, 2014
July 25, 2014
Transcript:
enjoy this vintage 2009 classic tom the dancing bug every thursday panels from the annals of the tom the dancing bug archive check back every friday for a fresh, brand new tom the dancing bug! tom the dancing bug by ruben bolling lucky duck the poor little duck who's rich in luck oop: i hate this baseball stadium! hound: it's old! and tacky! oop: and look! way out beyond center field! it's lucky ducky! hound: that duck is poor! and in my stadium! gate a hound: mayor! build me a new stadium! mayor: b-but we need the money for schools and buses...! hound: a billion dollars! gimme! so... hound: hollingsworth field! witha seating capacity of ten very exclusive fans! ah, billionaires watching millionaires -- what baseball is all about! lucky ducky can't ruin the game for me now! wow! that's a long fly ball! pow oop: it's out of the park! and headed for shantytown! oh no! not... bonk hound: a souvenir for lucky ducky! jumbotron ducky: gotcha... the end
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I hope they read this in Sacramento, where they’re gearing up to build a $477 million arena for the Kings. Over half will be paid by the city, which during the recession had six unemployed workers for every available job in the area and was hit by a record number of foreclosures. (Fewer homeowners = fewer property taxes paid into the city’s coffers.) They also evicted and seized the land of the Macy’s department store downtown, where they plan to build the arena, after claiming they would build it in a depressed area that was in desperate need of development. Their basketball player mayor, Kevin Johnson, is convinced the arena will bring jobs and more money to downtown, but it has yet to be proved that any sports venue has paid back what it cost to build it. More typically, they create ghost towns when games aren’t playing at home.