Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons for the scientific mind. Science is fun. I enjoy science. I think my favorite part of science was the way Carl Sagan said the word “humans.” Stay tuned for more ‘toons! [Yes, I know beavers don’t really eat trees in this manner. There’s a lot of wacky stuff in this cartoon. […]
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Land of the Free, Home of the Irresponsible
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons for the constitutionalist. And don’t even get me started on cars.
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The One About Porn
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: the forbidden fruit of cartoons. “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.” – Mark Twain But seriously, who wouldn’t want a little plush Todd Almighty?
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Enter the False Dichotomies
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons in an age without nuance. “To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it’s the glue that holds everyone together.” – Charles Kennedy The weird thing is how seriously the voters take their tribes. I do not think political discourse should be based on presupposed binaries. Humans […]
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Can Comforting Illusions Go Too Far?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blinky & Sal: cartoons for when no one is looking. This was actually the first official appearance of Todd Almighty (back in 2014). And Blinky wasn’t nearly as cute back then. In general, I don’t really care who or what people worship. From my many conversations with the very devout, it would seem that everyone sort […]
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When Religious People Give Advice
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons to scream about. Todd is love. You know when you’re trying to get deep and get vulnerable, exposing your doubts and fears and insecurities and then this moment of naked human trust and fragility is misinterpreted as a window to proselytize? We hate that. Understand both areas here. The deeply religious […]
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Political Identity: Whose Team Am I On Anyway?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons pandered catered just for you! [TRIGGER WARNING: overused quotation] “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – General George S. Patton Never before, I’d wager, have our ideological bubbles been lain before us so bare. Thanks, social media. We really are dumb, tribal animals. “Always mind your surroundings.” – Ra’s al […]
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Evolution & Creation: Belief Systems and Original Spin
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky & Sal: cartoons of existential dread BUT WERE YOU THERE??? Whether evolution is being labeled a belief system, a worldview, or an exercise in blind faith, it’s a pretty transparent attempt to level the playing field. Almost as if some religious folk know a purely faith-based, non-falsifiable position is not the greatest position to have […]