Vlad (Pheonix): Just giving you a heads up, when it becomes known that you are dating me. You will have to fight through my 6 abominable exes, as well as Gary.
Constantine: Why is the 7th one called Gary.
Vlad: Because that is his name...?
Constantine: No, I mean why is he differentiated from the others?
Vlad: Ah. Because Gary is not my ex, he's just Gary.
Constantine: Then why is he-
Vlad: He likes card games, the others are most likely to try and kill you.
Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities.
Delivering the inaugural Rosemary Hollis Memorial lecture at City University he said “now more than ever we need reporters and commentators who can engage with the sources of discontent and alienation which fuel the assaults on our democratic space.
“But instead we have a commentariat, overwhelmingly from the same social class both as each other and the politicians they cover. Their reference points are limited, their comfort zone is narrow.
“Much as they may mock millennials for seeking safe spaces, that is entirely where they operate.”
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Noting a finding of the 2019 Sutton Trust and Social Mobility report that suggested journalism has one of the most privileged workforces of any British industry, Younge said that “when the media class is drawn from the same social strata as the political class, the spectrum of views is narrow, and the atmosphere in which they are aired, foetid”.
Later in the lecture Younge said there are people for whom journalism “is their life – this is all they’ve ever wanted to do, this is what their parents did, this is what their friends do. To occupy this space means everything to them.
“And they shuffle, almost literally, between the media class and the political class. Boris Johnson just got a [job] on GB News. He was a journalist and then prime minister, now he’s going to be a journalist again… George Osborne pauperises a significant section of the population, goes to the Evening Standard, runs a Christmas campaign for food banks.”
He added: “It’s a group of people talking to themselves. They used to call broadsheet journalism the internal memos of the middle class, but increasingly it’s the internal memos of the upper class.”
Gary Larson's stuff should be way more popular on here IMO. I get that he's mainly known for "Cow Tools" (and rightly so) but the man's a shitposting machine with more bangers than I can count.
It's the 28th Cassieversary btw
dropping some of my favorite Cassie pictures (just random ones from my gallery tbh)
Can't name them all and my head hurts like shit so if anyone knows more it'll be helpful but mandatory messy sources/artists list (some of these are extremely useless):
Ivan Reis, commission | Phil Jimenez, from the end of his WW run I believe | Young Justice Secret files? don't remember the artist but I'm trying my best here) | Todd Nauck, Young Justice (1998) #7 cover | Nicola Scott, from Teen Titans #89-100, whichever one had a December cover date (this one was for a meme so I needed a panel from that issue just don't remember which) | Ugh Teen Titans 2003 OYL Rose backup story but I have legitimately no idea what artist or issue | Fabian Nicieza, Teen Titans (2011) #11-14 (I'm bad at specific issues) | Somewhere in New 52 TT no flipping idea where | Pop Mhan, Spyboy/Young Justice #2 | David F. Walker, Young Justice (2019) #19 | Gary Frank, Wonder Woman (2006) Annual #1
Director - Kelly Fremon Craig, Cinematography - Tim Ives
"I've been looking for you, God. I looked for you in Temple. I looked for you in Church. I didn't feel you at all. Why ? Why, God ? Why do I only feel you when I'm alone?"