Here is today’s In Contempt, another single panel on global warming.
And today’s installment of the “Search Party” story of Wanderlost.
I didn’t do a Lieberman cartoon, because, really, as much of a dick as he is, his exaggerated power merely underscores the political witlessness of the Democratic leadership. According to Mike Madden, here is what we [...]

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This moneyquote from Hollywood Elsewhere on the political implications of James Cameron’s Avatar is making the rounds. But it’s pretty juicy, so here goes:
The political import of Avatar — and there’s no waving this aspect away because it’s right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act — is ardently left. [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking:
Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to find [...]

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Like a broken clock accurately reporting the time twice a day, globalization cheerleader Tom Friedman hits upon a kernel of truth:
Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What [...]

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Dick Cheney looks at the blurry line between politicians and lobbyists and erases it with the subtlety of a bunker-buster:
For more than two years, Cheney and a relatively unknown administration official, Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell, have been regularly visiting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to ensure agency officials rewrite regulatory policies and bypass public [...]

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