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Home | Meine Liebe | North Star | Comics | Reign | Duck Dodgers | INTO | Reality | Great War | Southern Cross | Futurama | Simpsons | Tylor | Futurama II | Gundam Wing | Zoids | Gundam SEED | Mobile Suit Gundam | One Piece
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Tustin, California. My current digs. This is an firsthand sighting; it flies at city hall. It's
not on the town website, nor do I find any mention of it in the city documents. Not terribly creative, just
the town seal on a white field. But not exactly unsightly either, or maybe that's just my jingo side talking. By
the way, I used to live in Irvine, right next door; I promise to do their flag someday. Steel your souls--shudder--It
came from 1971! da dum da dum... no, seriously, it's hideous! hideous I tell you!
Anyway, those are oranges, an avocado, and I think either some pears or limes, or both--references to the agricultural
heritage of the area, as is the plowed field. Amusingly, Mt. Saddleback in the background is so poorly rendered as
to eliminate its namesake saddle-like ridge. Tsk tsk.
Tthe Republic of Slovenia held a contest about a year ago to pick new national symbols. The old
ones were held to be too bland and generic, and to be doing a rather poor job distinguishing the country from the other
dozen or so Slavic states with red-white-and-blue color schemes. I came up with this entry; it didn't exactly
sweep the jury, but I still think it's sort of nice. Gray doesn't get used enough on national symbols, in my opinion.
Though I will grant it there is a certain unfortunate 'logo-of-snowboarding-equipment-company' vibe present.
I sort of like the current Iraqi flag, but I do think countries that undergo major transitions should pick
out new ones. The problem is that the design selected by the American puppet-government is a terrible one--boring graphically
and with no historical basis and the wrong colors. So; a new flag for Iraq that uses traditional elements but modernizes
the design somewhat. The bifurcated white stripe could symbolize the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, if they merged,
which I dont think they do, but what the heck.
The Duopoly
Many people assert on a regular basis that the two major parties are, fundamentally, indistinguishable. 'There's
not a dime's worth of difference," is, I believe, the traditional complaint. Wrong! In fact, each party wishes
to impement radically different, uniquely idiotic and wholly distinct--aside from their malevolence and venality--policy proposals. Quoth
Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil's Dictionary:
Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with new ones. Oh, what the hell. I happen to be a liberal myself, but the Party and the movement are so godawfully myopic and incompentent these days that it beggars the imagination. Plus I'm in a misanthropic mood today. So I'm being undeservedly evenhanded: a pox on both their houses. Now, the US party flags are staggeringly dull. Therefore, and in honor of the recent electoral fiasco, I propose a pair of new designs, referencing the fundamental ideology of either party in the historical instance in which it was taken to its logical extreme. Somehow I doubt either of these will be received with much enthusiasm. But on the upside, I should get some interesting hate mail now. Yay.
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