A couple of days ago, I was sent this satirical cartoon totally unsolicited by SFO Bay Area artist Tim Sheppard who said he was troubled by the free speech issues surrounding the Mann-Steyn lawsuit. He sends it with a disclaimer:
DISCLAIMER: The following editorial cartoon contains satire, parody, exaggeration and uncensored imagery of balding public figures projected to be completely hairless about the north polar region by the year 2020.
It is not peer reviewed. It makes no claims to absolute undeniable, settled truth, while it does depict a very plausible scenario wherein catastrophic warming might cause pants to combust and hockey sticks to break spontaneously.
No actual polar bears were harmed in the production of this cartoon.
Free speech is the issue. The answer to discomforting free speech is even more free speech.
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PS: And how about showing the hockey stick wrapped around his neck, like an albatross?
Caption:
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had hotfooted
Eugene WR Gallun says:
Very apt. Parody below.
Mann the greater
Mann the higher
Mann the pumps
The world’s (*rs*) on fire
With apologies.
Perry
When A Mann Loves A Warming
1:50 in
Eugene WR Gallun’s poem has the seeds of greatness… Though after the Lysenko line, the poem loses momentum. Re-write a few lines and it will be genius!
The Hockey Stick Blues
http://www.reverbnation.com/kencoffman/song/9363502-the-hockey-stick-blues
@Patrick – YES
@eysonu – ROFL!
We’d prefer a Mann facsimile supine on the floor of his Green Gang’s “Last Chance Saloon”, waving carb-battened arms-and-legs in the air while Warmist bumwads –Briffa, Hansen, Jones, Trenberth et al.– caper around him singing out “Dead Bug!”
The Hockey Stick Blues
– Ken Coffman
Guitar and Vocals: Rob Fowler
Bass: Randy George
Drums: Dan Lile
I’m the Mann, you know what that means
Give me a proxy, I’ll squeeze ‘til it screams
It screams loud—and gives up its stick
I got consensus, built through the years
The media loves me and gives me their ears
Oh yeah.
Top o’the world, fame and dough, lots rolling my way
You know how that feels—it feels good
Oh baby, it feels real good.
Principal components, you know that’s my thing
Invert a proxy and downplay inconvenient strings
We don’t need that garbage, come on, let’s get real
Peer review—you know the drill
All of my friends—I can count on to shill
Top o’the world, fame and dough, lots rolling my way
You know how that feels—it feels good
Oh baby, it feels real good.
Oh, yeah—I think I’ll just play my guitar…
[The moderators disclaim any responsibility for the behavior of any CAGW groupies before (or after) the airing of this song. Mod]
If the global warming is in his pants and hot enough to combust his pants, we should really find some water because he is the last person I want to see moon me or anyone else!
That would even traumatize an ER nurse!
Broken stick? That’s what comes from playing a SLAPP shot – and hitting the ice.
Love it
A Mann and his stick:
http://i47.tinypic.com/2i7mfex.jpg
The artists has got it wrong –
There is a Human Head where there should be –
A BIG FANNIE !
Nice reminds me of this.
Years ago I read a book called “Dr Panto Fogo” , or Dr pants afire. It was written by an engineer from South Africa who, on a train in central/south America, sat by an open window, napping. Now, these were old-style locomotives which ran on coal and emitted numerous flaming sparks that could (and in this case, did) sweep into the passenger cars. He awoke to find his pants smoldering from one such ember much to the enjoyment of his fellow passengers . Who gave him the sobriquet “Dr Panto Fogo”.
Eugene’s Poem is genius in Iambic hexameter…
I don’t believe that methane gas smokes like that.
Only thing better than parody is inadvertent self-parody
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/439052532413771776
Moar reserach!
What a piece of work is Mann!
Oh, the HUMANNITY!
Clearly, this isn’t Michael Mann in the cartoon.
The fire would be coming from his ears, if that was the case.
Free speech is the issue. The answer to discomforting free speech is even more free speech.
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Hear! Hear!
elmer says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:27 am
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You guys rock.
I could enjoy joining one of your brainstorming sessions!
http://m4gw.com/
Charlie Johnson (@SemperBanU) says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:41 am
“Moar reserach!”
Reserach we much.
Lessig v Liberation Music has just settled their fair use dispute with Liberation Music paying Lessig damages.
Briefly, Liberation Music discovered that an individual named Larry Lessig had used a portion of one of their copyrighted songs in a presentation that Lessig gives. Liberation Music’s lawyers fired off a letter to Lessig threatening to sue. Apparently these lawyers were not the sharpest tool in the shed and didn’t realize that Larry Lessig is Harvard’s Professor Lawrence Lessig, one the country’s top copyright lawyers and scholars. Lessig fought back. Per the article:
So Lessig sued Liberation for money damages and eventually Liberation Music settled and is now paying Lessig big bucks for their misadventure.
Not good for Mann. From the settlement:
“Too often copyright is used as an excuse to silence legitimate speech. I’ve been fighting against that kind of abuse for many years, and I knew I had to stand up for fair use here as well. Hopefully, this lawsuit will send a message to copyright owners to adopt fair takedown practices — or face the consequences.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/27/283554774/a-win-for-fair-use-after-a-record-label-picked-wrong-guy-to-sue