Not a day goes by in Portland when I don’t hear someone (probably me) complaining about the rising cost of housing in Portland. The city is growing, and new home construction cannot keep apace with the influx of new residents,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for cartoons
Am I supposed to mourn a hateful man when he dies? Certainly Antonin Scalia could be much worse (consider Osama bin Laden or Ronald Reagan), but the negative impact he had on the lives affected by his jurisprudence was not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I launched a new webcomic strip today. Or I should say, I finally gave a name and a home to a sporadically produced collection of single and multi-panel strips featuring a cat who talks to a cartoon version of myself.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Breed if you want to. Don’t breed if you don’t want to. I’m a parent. I love my kids. I wanted to have children, so I did. I know a lot of people who don’t want to have children, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was recently asked by a librarian colleague to contribute a cartoon to a time capsule. Held by the Oregon Library Association, the capsule will open in 2040. Although I had the option to pick any old thing I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The same day that Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a state law allowing for the discrimination against LGBT workers and customers in the name of religion, he also lifted a ban on needle exchanges in response to a serious HIV[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two hashtag campaigns launched last week on Twitter (where else?) addressing the topic of race. With #racetogether, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thought it would be a neat idea to use coffee and his low wage workers to “start a conversation”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week Senator Ted Cruz (TX), who recently took over the chair of the Space, Science and Competitiveness subcommittee, opined to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that NASA has become distracted from its “core mission” by studying climate change. Here is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…