A Republican Missouri lawmaker said that she meant “no ill intent” toward President Obama when she asked on her Facebook page if the U.S. military was able to oust the president.
In a Facebook post last week, Jefferson County Recorder of Deeds Debbie Dunnegan referred to Obama as “our domestic enemy,” according to a screenshot published by Progress Missouri.
“I have a question for all my friends who have served or are currently serving in our military … having not put on a uniform nor taken any type military oath, there has to be something that I am just not aware of. But I cannot and do not understand why no action is being taken against our domestic enemy. I know he is supposedly the commander in chief, but the constitution gives you the authority,” she wrote in the post. “What am I missing? Thank you for your bravery and may God keep you safe.”
Dunnegan, who is up for re-election in November, said that her question was taken out of context, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
What do you think about Twin Peaks coming back?
I’m… cautiously excited? I enjoyed the show a bunch when it was on, but there’s a lot about the idea of Frost and Lynch returning 25 years later that makes me very nervous, not least of which is the fact that it’s 25 years later. I’m already bracing myself for the televisual version of “Free As A Bird,” to be honest.
Random Thought About Podcasting
Earlier today, I wondered how viable it would be to curate a daily podcast feed about culture that, every morning, would release a short episode by different people touching on a particular news story/anniversary/event. Like, one day, it’s rachelandmiles talking about rumors about the new X-Men movie, the next it’s dynamofire about some music that I’ve never heard of because I’m old, and so on and so on.
The answer is, of course, “not viable at all,” because I’d want those people to be paid for what they did and ha ha ha I’m not a media mogul. And yet, there’s something about the idea that sticks with me and, I suspect, will continue to do so for awhile.
When Stan Lee did the first Spider-Man book, it was like he was talking directly to the reader and saying, “You may find Spider-Man a little bit corny, but stick with it.” I was kind of into that whole idea of the comic book talking to the reader and establishing this relationship, and then weaponizing that relationship and making it quite dark and fucked up. Multiversity is kind of about that, the ideas that we allow into our heads. We protect our money behind safes, we protect our security behind the Pentagon, behind giant walls. But we allow any kind of idea through our skulls into these private spaces. I wanted to write about that—why do we allow such intimate invasion?
Grant Morrison, talking about the origins of The Multiversity in an interview with James Gunn.
Catching Up on Comic News For A Second
Catching Up on Comic News For A Second
For those who didn’t pay attention to the announcements from this weekend’s New York Comic Con — well, well done, that was probably the right idea. However, this means that you will have missed the news that Marvel will follow up the Death of Wolverine series with a new, weekly ongoing series…
I got bitchy over at the Wait, What Tumblr.
