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Bush made Fox News guy, Tony Snow his new press secretary.  Tony is conservative.  With his 38% approval rating, it's obviously not just liberals who are unhappy with the president.  Press Secretary Snow may have more questions than answers for his new boss.

The president is famously loyal to his staff.  Maybe this is a back door way to get Karl Rove to step down by causing him to commit murder.

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The government will require us to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol annually by the year 2020.

I like the term corn squeezin's.  That's what Snuffy Smith called his moonshine in the cartoon strip by the late great Uncle Fred Lasswell.

I will make two Borders crossings on Friday the 28th.  I'll be at Borders Fairlawn (map) at 5pm.   Then my  coyote will hustle me down to Borders North Canton (map) at 7pm.  I'll sign my latest book, The Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok!,  and my earlier book,  Bok! The 9.11 Crisis in Political Cartoons.

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Summit County, where I live, has a new Animal Control director.  Her  name is Christine Congrove.  She makes $63,500 a year.  She is 23 years old and a college dropout.  Bill Gates dropped out of college too.  It pays to drop out of college.  Both of them make more than their teachers.

Bill Gate's father is a lawyer and co-chairman of Bill's foundation.  Christine Congrove's father is a Summit County Councilman.  Family values are important.

Like Akron's Lebron James, Christine Congrove is advanced beyond her years.  Lebron can shoot from anywhere.  Christine is licensed to carry firearms.  In an interview with Katie Byard in the Beacon Journal she said, "I'm law enforcement, a peace officer.  This is a law enforcement agency.  So I feel I that I am qualified for this job.  Also, euthanasia training… I'm a certified euthanasia technician."

I'll be sneaking back into town today for a book signing at Borders on Howe Rd. in Cuyahoga Falls at 7:00pm. If you're in the area, or even if you're not, please stop by.

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All the corporate lobbying scandals are about hiring somebody to bribe congress to make a special law that says everybody pays a tax but you. It's even legal in many cases. My guess is that Congress is so corrupt that its price will continually drop as it seeks to attract business from as many lobbyists as possible.  Eventually everybody will have special tax status except those of us too dim to figure out the game.  And we'll get stuck with the alternative maximum tab.

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I'm Baaaack.  Sorry for disappearing with unfinished cartoon business on the table.  I was not abducted by aliens but I have been in Chicago. Many thanks to Mencken and Auggie for keeping the home fires burning with bickering.

Nunya properly wonders what this cartoon is all about.

Ever since The New York Times masochistically sicced an independent prosecutor on itself by demanding an investigation of the "leak" that outed secret agent woman Valerie Plame, and landed its reporter Judith Miller in jail, the Times has had a leak problem.  Newspapers depend on leaks to report news. The Times ran an editorial on the subject April 16.

Now we have the "good leak", one that comes from a whistleblower reporting wrongdoing in an organization (preferably one that will lead to the impeachment of the president).  And we have the "bad leak", one that an organization springs to make itself look good.  The bad leak In this case was Scooter Libby's attempt to discredit Ms. Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, following Wilson's attempt to discredit Bush in a Times Op-Ed.

Bad leaks lead to jail.  Good leaks lead to Pulitzer Prizes.

So, are leaks good or bad?  Depends.

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Reuters reports that Robert Mugabe, the nutjob leader of Zimbabwe, supports the nuclear program of his colleague, the nutjob president of Iran,  Anybodywannajob.

President Ahmagonnajihad had this to say about Israel yesterday, "Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,"…"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree  that will be eliminated by one  storm."

Famed blog commenter, Auggie, has beaten me to the punch and provided this link to the story.  Auggie's commenting nemesis, Mencken, ammusingly points out that when President Ahdjob nukes Israel his  beloved Palestinian's "won't be able to safely move back to the homeland for about a thousand years".

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Can a president leak?  It's a theological question.  Aquinas tells us the very act of a presidential leak causes the substance of the leak to be declassified and therefore renders the act not to be a leak at all.

Bush released information that showed Joe Wilson, husband of secret agent woman, Valerie Plame, was telling lies about him.  Dick Cheney's aid, Scooter Libby, leaked this information to Judith Miller of the New York Times.  That enraged Wilson who then accused the administration of outing his wife.  According to independent prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, that was a lie too.  Amen.

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Asia Times reports, "President George W Bush issued a "wild speculation" non-denial denial that the US was
planning strategic nuclear strikes against
Iran, but Iran considerably
upped the ante on Tuesday with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's announcement that Iran had enriched uranium for the first time.  In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad urged the West to stop pressuring Tehran, saying that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes."

The announcement included dancers prancing around with vials of the vile substance. Doves flew above to symbolize the "peaceful purposes" of the Iranian nuclear program.