Merple

Sara Lance

Leonard Snart

Mick Rory

Jefferson Jackson

Ray Palmer

Martin Stein

Nate Heywood

Amaya Jiwe

Kendra Saunders

Carter Hall

Rip Hunter

(see part one: civil rights cartoons)

in the 1970s, america experienced an unprecedented crisis as those mean ol’ democrats ganged up on poor ol’ dick nixon

and now they’re doing it again!

it was all the media cared about too but nobody else gave a shit, nosirree

it’s all just words, see!

the president is squeaky clean, he’s above all these baseless accusations

they got nothin i tell ya, its all in their imagination and in fact they’re acting very irresponsibly

they’re just wallowing in filth, they’ll never find anything!

ok they found something, but whaddabout all those even worse crimes committed by those mean ol’ dems! why isnt anybody trying to impeach them

We are smart enough to know hot things should be hot.

She was hideously injured by hideous irresponsibility, it was an absolutely legitimate lawsuit and the warning on the cups basically allows McDonalds to claim no responsibility even if it happens again. Every other company followed suit to cover their asses.

obligatory mention that the media smear campaign to twist teh facts on this case and get public opinion against the victim was deliberate and fueled by the right wing tort reform movement

it was seized upon to limit the rights of consumers to hold giant corporations accountable for wrongdoing

She was uninsured and sued McDonald’s Restaurants for the cost of her past and projected future medical care, an estimated $20,000. The corporation offered a settlement of $800, a number so obviously ridiculous that I’m not even going to dignify it with any further explanation.

The settlement number most often quoted is not the amount that the corporation actually paid; the jury in the first trial suggested a payment equal to a day or two of coffee revenues for McDonald’s, which at the time totaled more than $1 million per diem. The judge reduced the required payout to around $640,000 in both compensatory and punitive damages, and the case was later settled out of court for less than $600,000.

Keep in mind that at the time, McDonald’s already had over 700 cases of complaints about coffee-related burns on file, but continued to sell coffee heated to nearly 200 degrees Fahrenheit (around 90 degrees Celsius) as a means of boosting sales (their selling point was that one could buy the coffee, drive to a second location such as work or home, and still have a piping hot beverage). This in spite of the fact that most restaurants serve coffee between 140 and 160 degrees Fahrenheit (60 to 71 degrees Celsius), and many coffee experts agree that such high temperatures are desirable only during the brewing process itself.

Man, I know Frank is awful and all, but at least he has a three-digit IQ and is somewhat competent. 

If their hoods are actually hair, then that means they have manes. (Or hair wrapped around their necks, but I digress.) A mane is hair that grows around your neck like a lion. So, if the Zircons let their hair all loose and stuff, it should poof out like Lion’s hair if they do in fact have manes.

I like to think that their neck hair (fur?) is styled to be shaved down or tucked under their clothes.

holly blue agate: what are they, fighting?

(distant wails and sobs over pink diamond can be heard emanating from further down the corridor)

mystery girl: darling dearest i’m all for you being punk rock but don’t you think you’re overreacti

pearl: HE MADE STEVEN AND CONNIE UNCOMFORTABLE