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Trump Card
Saturday, April 23, 2011
As I mentioned in the previous update, I was trying to come up with something on Donald Trump, who, laughably, is among the top-polling possible candidates for President as rated by Republicans…
Snake Oil
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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Doggone It
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
This is a state topic cartoon concerning the University of Washington, which recently announced budget cuts would result in a decrease in admissions for in-state students, though they will be increasing admissions for out-of-state students…
Sam’s Club
Sunday, April 3, 2011
I do feel we have a legitimate humanitarian mission in Libya, but it’s hard to trust our government to treat it as anything other than yet another opportunity to put down an anti-US tinpot and distribute his country’s resources to extra-national corporations, instead of the people who live there…
One-Armed Bandits
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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
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
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
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…
Scott Walker Blows
Friday, February 25, 2011
This cartoon addresses the protests in Wisconsin against Governor Scott Walker, and his attempts to use budget difficulties as a jumping-off point to kill off public employees’ unions in the state…
Pyramid Scam
Saturday, February 19, 2011
This piece addresses the White House’s recently released Federal budget proposal, and how the squeeze is being put on programs that benefit the middle class and the poor in order to satisfy the demands of the defense budget, and the tax cut “compromise” made between the President and the GOP to continue giving tax breaks to the wealthy…