Ted Rall Quotes
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.