I just added four new caricatures to the relevant gallery. I have started a project of almost daily caricature work in my sketchbook for my own personal enjoyment and artistic growth. The use of color pencils aims to extend my skills into areas I have felt uncomfortable with. I don’t want to rely on Photoshop [...]

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Two images making the rounds this week have at least one thing in common. And Here are two things I see: history and causality. The debt graph reaches beyond the last news cycle to put recent contributions to the national debt in a 30+ year perspective. Cornel West goes back even further, reminding us of [...]

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The other day I put a new post on my lemonade stand tumblr. Some average citizen has declared August 20th “Lemonade Stand Day” in protest against what he perceives as Big Brother oppressing little kids selling lemonade. I address some of the issues raised by this, but I forgot to note a common argument lemonade [...]

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Sometimes Tom Friedman says something that sounds like the start of a good column. Well, almost the start — there were a couple of paragraphs of crappy writing to skim through before we get to it, but it’s the cabby stenographer, that’s expected. Anyway, here is the germ of an idea: Our slow decline is [...]

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People have always been saying America ain’t what it used to be, even though it never was, because it satisfies some mopey instinct we have to pine for a lost America rather than try to create a country that we can all thrive in. The S&P downgrade and the poorly handled debt limit crisis are [...]

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