Delayed by back pain and tooth extraction, a new page arrives at Wanderlost full of color, merpeople, and song.

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Friday’s caricature will arrive later today. Targets — I mean, subjects will be Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol.

Karl Rove has learned his lesson:

Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and he blames himself for not countering the narrative that “Bush lied,” calling it “one of the biggest mistakes of the Bush years.”

Too bad it’s the wrong lesson.

Anyhoo, nothing new. Remember – “it was just a matter of emphasis.” (Link found via Mikhaela.)

I wrote about this tool earlier. Rendered with a humble Pilot Precise 5 pen. Those are great for sketches. I like the bite of the line work here. I wonder if I can duplicate it in a more finished product. The challenge is to not tighten up, but respond to the line you are putting down. I’ll be using different tools — a couple of Hunt crow quills — so the line will feel different. But those quills have plenty of teeth. We’ll see.

Shorter Harold Ford: “Dude, I coulda totally pwned that bitch if you pussies hadn’ta hold me back.”

Glad that sideshow’s over. I have not lived in New York in 15 years, but I still take its politics very seriously. I didn’t want no Teabagging Palinites and I don’t want no Carpetbagging Blue Dogs.

FWIW, I was born in Tennessee, but I’d be totally happy to send Ford back home. I doubt he wants to go back. Can you blame him?

Kentucky GOP senator Jim Bunning screwed over 1.2 million jobless Americans with one filibuster. And that ain’t all:

“This means that construction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed.”Federal projects shut down include more than $38 million in project funding for Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest and Fernan Lakes Idaho Panhandle National Forest and $86 million for bridge replacements in the Washington, D.C., area. Bunning’s home state of Kentucky has no projects affected by his action.

However, nearly 1.2 million unemployed workers, including 14,000 in Kentucky, would lose federal jobless benefits this month if Congress doesn’t extend them, according to the National Employment Law Project, a liberal-leaning research group. The U.S. Labor Department estimates that about a third will lose benefits in the first two weeks of the month.

I’m glad the press has found the ovaries/cajones to confront this dill-hole. “Excuse me! This is a senators-only elevator!” should be the new “get off my lawn.”

David Rees already has an excellent Halloween costume in Bunning’s honor. (Link via Brian McFadden tweet.)

UPDATE: Jon Kyl of Arizona says people on unemployment are lazy shits anyway. Kick ‘em off the rolls, make ‘em desperate for a job. Oh, sorry; that wasn’t fair. Let his own words hang him:

“I’m sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can’t argue that it’s a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it’s a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here,” said Kyl.

See? He was being nice. As he takes away their food and rent and health care money, he makes sure to say polite things about their hard-workiness.