McRingtail Comics

And yes, we’ve changed the blog’s name again — this time to McRingtail Comics. Sooner or later we’ll settle on something permanent, but in the meantime, I think we’ll just keep changing it every week or so.

Our goal is to one day have as many names for this strip as there are spellings for Mohammad (may the spellings of his name be many).

UPDATE on 10/25/07 at 9:00pm: Took this one down for a bit after it was posted yesterday — wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to be making reference to the wildfires given all the homes people lost in California, and that the fires are still burning. Especially since the strip uncharitably plays on the assumption that the Left will default to old favorites (e.g., environmental neopaganism and conspiracy theories) in the face of tragedy.

On the other hand, our Democrat masters have decided it’s okay to use the fires to grind their favorite axes. (See Harry Reid on the global warming root cause of the fire here; Barbara Boxer on how Iraq damages our ability fight fires here; some guy claiming to be California’s Democrat Lt. Governor saying a Bush visit will hurt firefighting efforts here.) So has the MSM (CNN using the fires to push their “Planet in Peril” series here, but also told not to come off as too shrill on global warming). So I guess it isn’t too soon after all.

Post-Katrina, we all know the script. If the sensationalism is blunted this time around — and the inevitable political and economic concessions that would follow — it’s only because it’ll be harder for the MSM to get away with it this time.