"A former fan" brings up an excellent (if poorly-spelled) point in the comments:

Whatever man you used to have a good stip here but now its balnk all the time. you let me down man, i thought i could count on you. but forget it dude

why dont you explain to yopur viewers why the strip isnt up or why your a quitter man

Some possible explanations:
• World no longer funny in wake of MTA fare hike
• Blogging essentially dead
• Beaten to submission by Cyborg Overlord Cheney
• Spending all my time appearing as a puppet in burlesque numbers starring Nasty Canasta, attempting to hard-sell copies of The Big 40!, or organizing the world-premiere production of Wuthering High this February
• Itchy rash, uncomfortable dryness

When might I resume the strip?
• Lockhart blogs about something other than the Red Sox
• Josh blogs, period
• "Coming soon."
• National syndication? I'd consider it.
• When I receive every item on my Amazon Wish List

Seems to me that making people who go to bed at 3am get up at 7am for 8:45am Jury Duty should be immediately banned by constitutional amendment.

Thoughts from a potentially crazy man in the E/V station, 5th & 53rd:

• "Bush stole the election... stealing makes you a winner!"
• "Every man has the basic right to an abortion."

Bush salutes "tomorrow's veterans" in High Schools Nationwide

Leftish gay blogger CertainDisaster infiltrated the RNC way back in August, but didn't get around to finishing his account of it until just before the election. His adventures among gay men who fight for their own oppression are well worth a read. Hey, better to be rich than free, right, boys?

• Prologue: Personal protest
• PART ONE: RNC: In the beginning
• PART TWO
• PART THREE

What, if anything, did CertainDisaster learn from his foray into log cabin politics? He says it best:

The main thing that I learned is that Republican gay men want the same thing other gay men want: Sex. These are some of the pick-up lines that were used on me that night (and I kid you not):
1. Want to see my NRA card? (He showed it to me anyway)
2. I'm a tobacco lobbyist. (He showed me his fake cigarette that the company had given him to 'smoke' in public - he couldn't smoke the real ones anymore cause he had lung cancer)
3. I'm all for the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage 'cause my pastor thinks it's a good idea.

JL emails a quote for the month:

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. —William Shakespeare

From Avenue Q: Everything in life is only For Now.

But from an unlikely source: The National Guard.

I should have used the main blog to link long ago to AlexisRobie.com for the amazing photography. But I didn't, and so I am linking for the first time to point out a political debate raging in the comments.

UPDATE: In response to JR's comment "The left knows alot about hate. They are so blinded by it they have lost there way," MLE puts it better than I've ever heard it:

HATE? Hate involves judgment, and those of us on the side of social freedom don't have the room to judge others' choices of how to live their lives.....Hate is the luxury of those who are scared of the unknown, those who are threatened by those who they have not met.....

There

is

still

ART.

(Not on this site, granted, but potentially, indeed.)

From the Times:

Dr. Eisnaugle said of the president; "He is really connecting with people. We are in a crisis in this country, and I really sense George Bush is the man who can bring us together."

Coming up after the election: JVG.com gets un-politicized. Woo!