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It is not peer reviewed.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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Just beautiful. ‘Nuff said.
@ur momisugly R Shearer
I stand corrected. He would actually be converting one ghg to 2 others, C02 and H20 in the form of water vaport, I believe.
@Steven 7:59 am
What a piece of work is Mann!
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The huge hockey stick bears him high.
– Sophocles, kinda sorta
Nice.
But I feel that overwhelming ego, the way it weighs the mann down, needs representation.
One must be careful in todays poisonous political correctness, failing to give the manns overwhelming ego equal time, will have it suing one and all.
Sadly that comment does not require a sarc tag.
Ha ha, absolute genius! Thanks Tim, thanks Anthony 😀
“Antarctic is warming. That is the conclusion of scientists analyzing half a century of temperatures on the continent, and the findings may help resolve a climate enigma at the bottom of the planet.” –NYT article, January 21, 2009
Turns out, it wasn’t the entire bottom. Just the peninsula. Ouchie!
Tim Sheppard,
Nicely portrayed. I would entitle your work of art ‘The Mann as portrayed by his own (inept) myths’
John
This poor fellow has painted a large target on himself. However he absolutely deserves reaping what he has sowed.
The art of Tim Sheppard inspired this adaptation of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem ‘Ozymandias’
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed doing it. Apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelly.
John
That’s not Mann, that’s Gavin Schmidt
Professor Mann is clearly suffering from the effects of a badly performed humorectomy.
I hope that a balding public figure with pants on fire is enjoying all of this as much as I am.
My apologies to Homer Simpson if he should think it reflects a likeness of himself. Homer deserves much better.
Hans Erren says:
February 28, 2014 at 10:06 am
That’s not Mann, that’s Gavin Schmidt
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I donno, could be James Hanson.
RHS says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:01 am
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!
Thanks RHS
Now I will have to go and wash out my minds eye with Bleach
The FutureScan PhotoStream Machine returned this image of a certain “famous, yet somehow-non-public-figure” climate guru twenty years from now.
http://cdn2.damnfunnypictures.com/a6cc0950706266b20a3e34357a132e63.jpg
Note: Apologies to hard-working circus folk the world over.
Looks like he finally got that rectalcephalectomy….
Cory Zupfer says:
February 28, 2014 at 10:50 am
Looks like he finally got that rectalcephalectomy….
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Cephalectomy is the surgical removal of the head (decapitation).
All those big words make me google.
LOL
Charlie Johnson (@SemperBanU) says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:41 am
Only thing better than parody is inadvertent self-parody
Nothing confounds many conservatives like #science and #reserach. Someone should do a study on this.—
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 27, 2014
Moar reserach!
Oh, that is soooooo schweet!!!!
As long as the subject is humor…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZxxxpiqmE&w=560&h=315%5D
Deer in the headlights dumbstruck.
“Build a man a fire, and you’ll keep him warm for the rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life…..
Vinnie Macaroni says:
February 28, 2014 at 12:30 pm
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Never heard that one but I repeat it. LOL
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A hot seat of his own making.
Sitting on a hockey stick can’t be comfortable.
(I wonder if the “H” in “Preparation H” stands for “Hockey”?8-)
Understanding OZYMADDIAS
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
These have always been difficult lines but seem to say this —
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Stamped on those lifeless thing, which (in living beings) yet survive
The (passion of) the hand that mocked them and the (passion of) the heart that fed (on such egomania)
So it seems to be statement that the world is still filled with Ozymandias’ and with artists who through their art mock them.
Considering Shelly’s politics i am reasonably certain that was his intended meaning for those difficult lines
Eugene WR Gallun
Why did the song we sang as kids instantly come to mind…….
Liar, Liar pants on fire!
Very nice rendition Josh!
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Eugene WR Gallun,
My interpretation of the poem is that hubris is absurd.
Mann has an immense amount of it, therefore absurd. Therefore my adaptation.
John