"I’m not bad… I’m just drawn that way."
Continuing on the theme of the political humpery of science, I’m pleased to forward a message from the Union of Concerned Scientists:
Three top cartoonists have joined with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to kick off the organization’s second annual “Science Idol” scientific integrity cartoon contest to draw humorous attention to a very serious issue: political interference in science.
Can you draw? Are you sick of the way the White House has bastardized reality? Then pick up a pen, put on your tin foil hat, draw a cartoon, and submit it to Science Idol.
If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.
March 28th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
The link is bad. With no “http://”, it’s trying to find the UCS website inside the BA blog.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
John, click on zee picture and things happen…
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/science_idol/
March 28th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.
Don’t forget your other gift, overwhelming modesty!
March 28th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I can’t draw either, but if I could I’d be trying to think of a good picture to go with the caption “… actually the tree of life is more like a Bush”.
March 29th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Rats! I can draw cartoons, I’ve even been published, but this is only open to US citizens. Unfair!
March 29th, 2007 at 2:49 am
If I could draw, I’d be all over this. Sadly, I’m only gifted with this incredible writing talent.
Nobody’s perfect! And a BA-blog only filled with cartoons wouldn’t be as interesting and informative as it is now.
I’m reading your book right now. And I am laughing more or less all the time. You did it very well, indeed!
March 29th, 2007 at 5:04 am
I’ve always been a big fan of Non Sequitur, and yesterday was the best comic I’ve ever seen him create. It can be found at http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2007/nq070328.gif.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:14 am
If you can’t draw, just make ASCII art!
~Joel
March 29th, 2007 at 7:14 am
I kind of like this one from XKCD:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/beliefs.jpg
March 29th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Actually, Stuart, I’d say BA’s other major talent involves movies and TV trivia, hence the quote from Jessica Rabbit above.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:41 am
If you can’t draw, use tools such as the cartoon playground at Funny Times.
http://www.funnytimes.com/playground/
Rob
March 29th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Cartoons can be dangerous. Just remember that most of the Anti-Science Fundies started out with a copy of “The Picture Bible.”
April 1st, 2007 at 6:35 am
I always liked Abe Lincolns teaching story. It goes like this:
Assume you have a jackass with four legs and a tail and you decide to call the tail a leg. Now, how many legs does the jackass have?
Answer: Four!
Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one,,,
See, we’ve been trying to teach people to see for a very long time.
GAry 7