Monthly Archives: April 2006

Guest Demonstrators

Click Image to Enlarge. When the Supreme court overturned a Texas law against sodomy  (Lawrence v Texas in 2003), Justice Kennedy cited the European Court of Human Rights .  Jeffry Toobin has written in The New Yorker about Kennedy's lawyers … Continue reading

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Barry Bonds

Click Image to Enlarge. Actually Babe Ruth doesn't have anything to do with it.  Hank Aaron is the home run champ. Ruth is Frankenstein's straw man.  Jason Kelly of the South Bend Tribune has a good column the real racial … Continue reading

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Had Issues, But Not Such a Bad Guy

Click Image to Enlarge. The National Geographic Society kicked off Holy Week by releasing an ancient gnostic manuscript that says Jesus and Judas were best buds.  The manuscript dates nearly 2000 years before the birth of Katie Couric.  Scholars agree … Continue reading

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Do You Know Me?

Click Image to Enlarge. After playing out her hand of race, gender, sexual harrassment, and Harry Belafonte cards, Cynthia Mckinney sort of apologized for allegedly assaulting a cop. "There should not have been any physical contact in this incident," she said … Continue reading

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Book Signing

If you're near Hudson, Ohio tomorrow please drop by the Learned Owl bookstore.  I'll be signing my book, A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok! at 6:00pm.

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What's the Frequency, Katie?

Click Image to Enlarge. I got this idea when I heard Bernard Kalb ranting about Katie Couric. He thinks CBS is messing with its Edward R. Murrow tradition.  Personally, I think she can read the news as well as anyone, … Continue reading

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Delay Steps Out

Click Image to Enlarge. Tom Delay is stepping down one step ahead of the law.  The Financial Times of London quoted him saying, “It’s very nasty. Every leftist organisation in America is down here in Houston. I just realised that … Continue reading

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Border Security

Click Image to Enlarge. Okay, this is the last immigration cartoon for a while.  It's about protecting the border from enemies rather than economics. Michele Malkin has a good column about why we should be "worried, very worried" about certain … Continue reading

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Global Warming

Click Image to Enlarge. Time magazine had a cover story about global warming last week.  It  said, "Be worried.  Be very worried". The coverage hyped the threat of man made global warming without skepticism.  That's because, as they say, "the … Continue reading

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Border Bluster

Click Image to Enlarge. Republicans are split on immigration.  Senate Republicans want a guest worker program.  House Republicans want to round up illegal aliens, like 12 million Elian Gonzalez's, and send them home. Then they want to build a wall … Continue reading

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