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Outrage By The Numbers

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:59:22 +0000

Well, friends, sometimes you have to eat your words. I said I stay away from charges of anti-antisemitism. I’ll make an exception for Oliphant’s cartoon today. I’m not the only one who thinks so.

A Tale Of Two Tarps

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:20:25 +0000

This is a tale of two “tarps”. But it is also a tale of two collaborators, Colleen and myself. The Nelson line is unmistakable and very strong. But what makes it a tale of two artists is that I think we see it in very different ways. If I understand Colleen right, she sees it as a tale of people who suffer and of people who are greedy, callous and oblivious in the face of that suffering. So far, so good. No doubt about that. (Well, maybe there is. Angela?) Does that mean that if we had better people running banks it would be different? I think this is where we diverge. To me, this is a tale of how the gears run in the machine we call our society. Banks and the making of money have very high leverage in this machine. Hunger, disease, poverty, not so much. Some 80 or 90 years ago, W.E.B. DuBois pointed out that since the early 1800′s we have had the knowledge and installed industrial capacity to feed, clothe and house everybody. (With population growth, that now hangs in the balance.) At some point, that has to become the central problem — not “Why don’t we do it?”, but “How can we re-order the machine so we do?”

Well, that’s art. Lotta different views.

Free Market

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:28:07 +0000

Jim’s comment reminds me…

Free Market is the name of the North American Fertility Goddess. She beguiles many with her promises of new and unimaginable pleasures. She is very vain, and regularly demands to be worshiped with human sacrifice.

State Of The Union Sale

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:42:12 +0000

We’re having a special Buy any two Senators and get a free Congressman.

Branches Of Government

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:32:39 +0000

Know your government!

Obama

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:14:42 +0000

Let’s see if I understand this. With all the honk and jive about passing health care reform, with the disaster in Massachusetts, with the evil supreme court decision kissing the corporate ass, with the official unemployment rate at 10% and no slowdown in home foreclosures, what does Obama pull out the stops to lobby for? Making sure Bernanke is re-appointed to the Fed.

Oh, did I mention? They actually came out and said, “We’ve got 50 people we can’t try, so we’re just going to keep them locked up without trial.”

Our Far-flung Correspondents

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:20:06 +0000

Krassimir reports from Eastern Europe:

Copenhagen

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:02:06 +0000

Guess who won.

Okay. Chuck likes the line version. Lucky likes the color version. I was pretty finely balanced between the two, so here is the other version. As some other cartoonist once said, “Indecision is a terrible thing.”

The Liebergrinch

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:59:19 +0000

Special Guest Artist: Colleen Nelson

Heard On The Radio

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:25:00 +0000

Well, part of it, anyway.