Here I am, checked in to my hotel room, really ready to hit the sack, but before I do - I saw this earlier on my Droid (wish I could post to the forum from that damn thing!) and wanted to weigh in:

Matthew asked: But most importantly, would you care to disprove the assertion: Do you think one-sided political presentations DON'T make for poor drama and DON'T risk insulting a portion of the audience? That, after all, was the point...

I don't think they make for poor drama, no.  In fact, it makes for exciting and thought-provoking drama.  Makes you think.  Makes you consider where you stand on issues, what you believe.  I also (obviously) don't care at all about insulting the audience, but then, you've read my posts here, so that should be self-evident.

Let's be more specific - we're talking about a book called "Captian America" that started as war-time propaganda - I don't think "insulting a portion of the audience" was ever a consideration with this title.

I will conceede this, though - the Nixon story made sense, the Reagan story, while awesome, didn't make sense. 

Let me explain - Captian America in 1970 was not the Cap of WWII - due to the awesomeness that is Stan Lee - what started as a kind of one-note bit of propaganda became a cool "man out of time" story.  And along those lines, considering how Nixon created the toxic atmosphere that surrounds politics (consider that it was members of his cabinet that also populated the Reagan and Bush cabinets and teams, spreading their filthy views of "us v them" - people blame Ted Kennedy for starting the ball rolling in that by standing up to Nixon's Supreme Court nominations, but considering the polarizing figures Nixon nominated what Ted did was heroic.  Where was I?  Oh, yes...) -

So - it's a good story to me - that a guy who left things with FDR and HST and comes to to Nixon - to have his veiws of the President shattered - the resulting story, where Cap becomes "Nomad - the man without a country" and then realizes that Nixon aside, America is still great - that's a great story, and perfect for the character.

The Reagan one is only good because I personally think Reagan was a pretty vile and evil man, but there's no context for it in the scope of Cap's stories.

But then, let's cut to this new story - even if you were worried about upsetting your readers, why would reprinting signs that are based on actual signs displayed at event offend them?  What, is truth kryptonite to Tea-Baggers?  (Uh... obvious alarm going off here...)

How many times, as well, have we spelled out on this thread that tea-baggers aren't racist, but surely some vile hatefull racists are in the tea-parties - as seen by many photos in this thread alone - I think, honestly, to both of you, if we're still trotting out pictures of random black guys at fairs?  Then games are being played.  And I know, in my heart of hearts, that neither of you two are game players - I suspect there's some sort of action and reactions going on.  I just have a pet-peeve (as seen in my post yesterday) to people who keep trotting out the same stuff over and over even after it's been addressed and dealt with.

There was a great Saturday Night Live routine years ago during Iran-Contra. Phil Hartman played Reagan.......

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That's one of my all-time favorite Hartman bits. Brilliant.

Points.  They're so easy to dismiss.

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I guess sometimes they are Al .

Some thoughts for today:

On the challenge the Democrats face with passing Healthcare despite their majority in the House and the Senate:

"I just don't know where they get the votes in the House," Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmire, a Democrat who voted against the health care bill, told Politico.com. "It's a huge challenge because . . . the people who voted 'yes' would love a second bite at the apple to vote 'no' this time because they went home and had an unpleasant experience as a result of their 'yes' vote. I don't know if there is anybody who voted 'no' that regrets it."

On the misinformed, know-nothing, Tea Party members:

"The people cannot be all, and always, well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty." ~ Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:372, Papers 12:356

On new threats to the IRS:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1968878,00.ht ml

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/haz-mat-crews-desce nt-on_n_481217.html

You have politicians who go "I don't want to vote according to my convictions about what is best for the people of my state and the US in general because people back home pick on me." ?  Seriously?

Vote the spineless cry-bay out, I say.