Posts featuring Cartoons
Big Gulp
Saturday, February 16, 2013
The two highest-profile events in American politics this week were the President’s State of the Union address, followed by the State of Marco Rubio’s Throat address, which was apparently “Dry. So very, very dry…”
Grand Old Party Games
Saturday, February 9, 2013
As John McCain recently observed, the results of the last election were a savage indictment of Republican immigration policy, especially when it comes to Hispanics and Latinos, where the orthodox view seems to be “deport all of them, except for the ones that mow my lawn!”
I’m Not Ready for Football Any More
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Tags: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?, brain damage, dementia, football, spinal injury, Sports, Super Bowl, Surgeon General's Warning, violence
On the Shoulders of Giants
Saturday, January 26, 2013
I wasn’t going to do anything on the re-inauguration of President Obama on Monday, but when I heard that he took the oath of office on two bibles, one belonging to Abraham Lincoln, and the other belonging to Martin Luther King, Jr., I had the idea for the above image, and thought it would be nice, even if it doesn’t convey much of a message.
Pyrotechnicality
Saturday, January 19, 2013
A report last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, coupled with the freakish weather of 2012, made it all the more abundantly clear that Global Warming is in fact a thing that is happening, whether we choose to stick our heads in the sand or not.
Hostage Situation
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tags: 2nd Amendment, Congress, contest, gun control, gun rights, guns, handguns, hostage, Liberty, National Rifle Association, NRA, pistol, Pulitzer, Second Amendment
I (Screw) New York
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Tags: Boehner, cigarettes, Congress, disaster aid, disaster relief, fiscal cliff, House of Representatives, Hurricane Sandy, I Love New York, John Boehner, Johnny Fiveaces, least productive Congress in decades, New York, orange, smoking, Speaker of the House, t-shirt
Cut It Out
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tags: Democrats, dive, diving, entitlement cuts, entitlements, fire helmet, fire rescue, firefighter, firemen, fiscal cliff, GOP, GOP elephant, House of Representatives, Republicans, rescue, scissors, spending cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy
Priorities
Friday, December 21, 2012
To LaPierre and the N.R.A., literal violence is less of a problem than fictional descriptions of violence; and devices whose only purpose is to kill, maim, and destroy are less of a problem than depictions of their use, especially made-up ones, with those that critically analyze their consequences, I assume, being the worst.
Classacre
Saturday, December 15, 2012
I had been planning a new “fiscal cliff” cartoon just prior to the tragic events on Friday morning in Newtown, Connecticut. Suffice it to say, I felt I should shelve what I was working on and try to come up with something more serious and tasteful for today’s update, instead.