Comics and illustration portfolio of Kevin Moore
Oh, Daily Beast, you are a wonder. When I tire of the right wing war blather, there you are, serving up the liberal equivalent. But first, I agree with Atrios — Peter Beinart has a point: Last summer, he tried to split the difference—surging in Afghanistan while simultaneously pledging to retreat on the theory that … Read More “The Point is What?” »
ONOZ. Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge on why [McChrystal] must be fired—and how Obama is in danger of becoming a wuss. Not a wuss! At first I thought this choice of words came from the Daily Beast editors, no strangers to crass and reductionist language. For most of the column, Hoge himself takes the long … Read More “Help! The President’s Dick is IN DANGER!” »
Bob Herbert looks at the past decade of U.S. domestic and foreign policy and finds it wanting. Well, duh; but he draws from the malaise a reasonable conclusion that strikes at the heart of both Bushy ur-conservatism and Obama’s Middle Path: we have given up. We are submitting to this debacle with the same pathetic … Read More “Embracing Mediocrity” »
Last Thursday I took my first guitar lesson since 1985. This is among many factors impeding progress on Wanderlost and other graphic novel activities. I regret nothing. I’ve been feeling a need for a break from cartooning to develop other creative interests, music being a big one in my life, but not something I ever … Read More “Have Guitar, Will Fumble” »
Found via the Comics Curmudgeon who duly mocks it: The only way I read the funny pages these days is through the Comics Curmudgeon, which probably has some influence on my interpretation of this strip. I don’t know the specific story line for this week’s LuAnn, but the strip has been around long enough, that … Read More “Do Teens Read LuAnn? Sure Hope Not” »
I hate opinion pieces like these. Peter Beinart advances the useless notion that President Obama’s address to the West Point Academy wasn’t stirring enough: Obama is clearly trying to ensure that the Afghan war no longer be run on a blank check. That’s why he famously brought OMB Director Peter Orszag to be photographed at … Read More “Weasel Column” »
Under Bush I recall a lot of talk of “outrage fatigue.” Things were so bad, with news of the administration’s nefarious activities or the out-of-control consequences of its policy decisions hitting the public every day, that anyone not in the Reflexive Apologist Camp felt overwhelmed and almost helpless.1 Thank goodness for elections. Not that people … Read More “Outrage Fecklessness” »
Okay, I’m just testing the RSS feed again, but I thought I’d try to make it more interesting. Besides, check out the mirrors on that Tele! Syd Barrett had more mirrors than Jimmy Page here; maybe there was a mirror arms race among 60’s British musicians. The man with the most mirrors wins! Anyhoo, the … Read More “Over, Under, Sideways, Down” »
This blog’s been purty quiet lately. Too much to do in meatspace. Like, say, a recent 11-day road trip from Portland to Great Falls, Montana, with detours through the high desert lands of central Oregon to hike 50 million years of lava deposits and fossils near John Day. Giant rock formations rise in mounds, revealing … Read More “Back to Life, Back to Reality” »
Atrios doesn’t get the controversy over the iPad — which one of the comments likens to the rivalry between aficionados of Gibson Les Paul guitars and those of Fender Stratocasters. Something about technology invites people (mostly men, it seems) to go deep tribal, grab their crotches and bellow insults at their rivals. “Some people might … Read More “Mine Vs. Yours” »