The new Katie Galaxy is up: This one has robots.

I fixed some of the screwy stuff that was happening in Windows IE (purely my fault) and I put the flash menu in. If you see any weird stuff (besides that weird thing IE does with PNGs), let me know, k?

Or if you just wanna say "Hey, I read it. kthxbye" or "why'd you do xxx?" or "What's with those damned shorts?" that's cool too.

Enjoy. :)

PS - As always, click the comic for a larger version.

Countdown for blastoff... X minus 5.. 4... 3... 2... X minus one... Fire.
(Anyone else every heard the old time radio program 'X Minus One'?)

Anywho, the new Katie Galaxy episode is up.
Go forth and ogle: Katie Kalaxy: 18/3/04 "Tin Menace"

The new Katie Galaxy is up. I wish that you would like it. (and spread the word, if you would. I need more readers in order to dominate the world with my hypno-ray and flying monkeys.)

This one was heaps of fun and came to me whilst trying to go to sleep a couple of nights ago. It harkens back to a bygone era, as they used to say on my favourie late night program when I was a kid "Those Were The Years" (It played old serials like Flash Gordon. I was like 7 and ate them up. I had to sneak out of bed to watch it.).

Uh... where was I? Oh! New Katie at KatieGalaxy.com.

My friends, I believe that willingness to dissent is at the core of true patriotism. Especially when you live in a truly free country that does not legally bind and require you to behave as a patriot. Standing up and speaking your mind, even if your mind is of a disagreeable notion, is what makes true freedom possible. If this is not true, then why do we aggrandise and quote those who stood down tyranny and oppression before us? Why do we praise Patrick Henry and repeat words, mere words, he uttered hundreds of years ago? Why? Because speaking up and speaking out is a true patriot's duty and legacy.

Un-Patriotic? Un-American? These are things you can choose to be or not be in America. You are not required to wave the flag and sing the praises of your government for the privilege of feeling safe in its arms. You merely need to be a national and follow its laws, laws which you can challenge at any time no matter who you are. The only way this can be taken away from you, from us, is through complacency. If we let those who would steal some of our power for personal gain, usually wrapping themselves in a cloak marked 'patriotism' to blind your eyes from the truth beneath, taint our freedom we may one day wake to find ourselves in a very different country. We awoke one September 11th to the realisation that we were not immune from terrorism just because we were Americans, we should all concern ourselves with ensuring that we do not wake one day to find we've given away our freedom for specious promises of safety by cloaked bandits; Bandits from our own soil.

So, where do we stand today? How have things changed, for better or worse, since January 2002? Have we simmered down? Do we have a more level head? Are we just as free today? Do we still have a clear notion of what patriotism (not flag waving) is?