Posts from March, 2011

One-Armed Bandits

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

One-Armed Bandits

I was examining some gas pumps at a Costco, and it struck me that they looked sort of like slot machines. I thought the visual would be clever, and the metaphor would be an appropriate and funny way of describing the consumer’s relationship with oil speculators…

Fruit of Knowledge

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Fruit of Knowledge

I wanted to do something commenting on the dual nature of nuclear technology, with both its productive and destructive potentials, and thought the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in the story of Adam and Eve might make a good symbol for this…

There Will Be Blood

Thursday, March 17, 2011

There Will Be Blood

This cartoon is mostly a response to people lamenting the recent increases in gas prices ostensibly caused by democratic protests against various Middle Eastern dictators, like Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi…

The Invisible Hand

Friday, March 11, 2011

The Invisible Hand

Free-market types like to argue that taxes and regulations discourage businesses from setting up shop domestically, and that if we don’t loosen things up, then they’ll just go someplace that doesn’t have such encumbrances…

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