The president and his administration wages war with the press on multiple fronts: demanding the White House press corps to turn off cameras during briefings, labeling all criticism or negative reports as “fake news”, exploiting incidents where news reporting reliant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When The Senate Majority Leader moved deliberations on health care legislation to a series of closed door sessions, did anyone seriously think the result would be a plan that anyone would like? Beyond that forgone conclusion (“no”), there are others:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have lived long enough to have substantial pre-Internet memories, so I can remember debates among friends getting heated and personal without the help of anonymity or technological depersonalization we often blame for the intensity of conflict online. Message boards[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My car recently died, so I had to get another one. I like my new car. It is newer, drives well, feels comfortable, has lots of features, is relatively fuel efficient, and looks nice. But a new car payment every[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While everyone is finding ways to resist, protest, oppose, undermine, foment revolution against, and at least mock the current administration, there seems to be no end of counsel from comfy conservative white dudes. They often style themselves as “moderates” or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a week with so much going on , you would probably expect me to mine it for satire and political laffs. But I have been exhausted by how much mental space Trump and his team of kleptocrats colonize. Maybe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul Ryan got all the votes necessary to push through his repeal-and-replace legislation to destroy the Affordable Care Act, but only by making enough concessions to convince the Freedom (sic) Caucus that the American Health Care Act was cruel enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week I am really pleased and grateful to present a guest strip by the truly amazing Adrian Wallace. Long time fans of webcomics might remember his great strip Jumbo deLuxe, an adventure series about kids who solve mysteries with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I scanned this strip into Photoshop with the intention of coloring it, I found that it looks and reads better in black and white. The raven of my depression, the blackbird of unhappiness is inky dark with all that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So far in March the chief of Homeland Security John Kelly announced that DHS was considering separating the children of migrants fleeing war and poverty from their parents; budget director Mick Mulvaney dismissed the academic efficacy of free school lunch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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