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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another post at my Lemonade Stand Meme tumblr. I am all for citizens engaging in civil disobedience to gain notice for their causes and to protest injustice. But I fail to see why protesting against health inspector licenses to operate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reading this morning’s news coverage of yesterday’s significant losses at the stock market, I notice certain phrases keep popping up that seem to indicate a sense of denial or delusion about the actual state of the economy. Let’s use this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Get your waders on, it’s time to step in the knee-jerk muck. Marvel Comics recently announced that the Ultimate universe Spider-Man will be a working class nerd of black and Latino ethnic heritage. Miles Morales replaces Peter Parker, whom the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gil Scott-Herron died today. Only 62, but he had already laid the groundwork for socially conscious rap music forty years ago as a young poet, jazz musician and songwriter. He will be best remembered for “The Revolution Will Not Be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think we have reached the absolutely absurd end of austerity kneejerking: Eric Cantor has asserted that disaster relief for the thoroughly devastated town of Joplin should not be added to the deficit. Having said that, some other GOPer will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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