actually what this means is that he had a non-chinbeard intermezzo, given this photograph of an even younger ian

(he was a college instructor who dated a student, ah heh ah heh)

And in the second part (yeah this is a two part episode) we go into our usual "segments" - Timeline, Prurient's Implications Corner, Droids Rights Watch, EU Corner, and more. You'll also hear Pinafore's David Lynch impression, and Prurient's Pinafore impression!

open.spotify.com/episode/2f15...

this is still discounted if you can believe it! you can get a digital copy of this for a shocking $6!

it's got masterful paneling and cartooning, it's a heartfelt meditation on anarchism in the vein of Le Guin's Dispossessed, and it also has a bunch of insanely hot sex scenes. FOR SIX! DOLLARS!

as an avowed believer in reparative justice and prison abolition, i think "innocent until proven guilty" lets the objectively evil members of society off too easy and that the best way to solve interpersonal callouts is to unquestioningly back the victim and encourage mob violence without quarter.

look at his eyes, everyone, look at his impotent rage

you may not like it, but this is peak soap strip performance

like, the left-sided hairpart says it's polly, but

pretty sure i'm the only person in the entire world who checks which side polly/lolly parts their hair for the purposes of identification

and mceldowney probably shouldn't be writing to an audience of only me