I'm Not Afraid To Get All Mavericky In There

I took another whack at The Daily Universe. I've recently been more involved in educating myself on the election, what with my Political Science 314 class, my roommate Bert van Uitert, and my own personal drive to be an educated voter. Of course, in that process, I find plenty of ammunition for satire and mockery.

This one is my favorite. It says something to all those Mormons who stand atop their no-caffeine soapboxes. (Senator McCain is drinking Surge there, shipped all the way from Iraq, in case you can't read it.)

Senator Obama's foreign policy seems to be to catch the Axis of Evil on the rebound after President Bush dumped them. I'm no foreign policy expert, but if Senator Obama does the opposite of whatever President Bush did, that's probably a step in the right direction. (Once again, hard to read who is included in that clique of girls, unless you recognize each national leader by their face. If so, I commend you for your photographic memory of world affairs. I had to look up these guys on Google. Anyway, from left to right that's Kim Jong Il of North Korea, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran, and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan.)

I wonder what Osama bin Laden is thinking when he watches the debates on his TV in his cave... Here they are, two candidates for the president of the United States, trying to win votes by proving that their way of killing Osama bin Laden is the best way. How interesting it must be to be flipping channels and to come across two politicians arguing about how they're going to kill you.

If only...if only...

We should have seen this coming, America...

So, we'll see if The Daily Universe decides to use these for anything.

Other than that, I don't have a lot of animation/cartoon news. This semester I'm too busy worrying about 17th century American literature, Spanish syntactigrams and progressivism in the presidency to worry about animation. Which I need to turn around before I completely forget what I want to be when I grow up.

I'm thinking that I'll take a lighter load next semester. I'll take the two classes that Ryan Woodward advised me to, and a couple others. Probably Communications 101 and Spanish 355. Not only will I be able to focus more on animation, but my job is going to go ka-razy next semester. Less homework would be nice.