Digital Caricature: John Yoo

by on February 24, 2010
Posted In: caricature, cartooning

John Yoo caricature

Last night I experimented with drawing caricature from digital scratch. I think it looks okay — as in, it looks like him and it’s cartoony — but it doesn’t grab me the way pen on paper does. I am less comfortable drawing digitally than I am using traditional tools. That can always change, given that I worked hard to train myself with nibs and brushes, I can do it with a stylus and tablet.

Yet I don’t really think this wound up as a caricature; it’s a political cartoon. Old habits die hard. I had intended putting a bag labeled “child testicles” under his upraised foot, but that seemed to skirt the edge of bad taste. Maybe.

Meanwhile, on a more cheerful note, there is a new page of Wanderlost up!

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Dammit, We Have a Narrative!

by on February 24, 2010
Posted In: politics

From your “liberal” New York Times:

But haven’t I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship?

It depends on what you mean by bipartisanship. Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas to their health plan — and not just fig leaves. If the Democrats did that, they would have a bill worthy of the name bipartisan.

Emfuzzies mine. If only Democrats would just reach out to the other side and invite their input and listen to their ideas and stroke them under the chin and greet them at the door in nothing but a big ribbon and a bottle of champagne, then they would truly earn that most honored most esteemed most thigh tingling mantle, “bipartisan.”

But if they don’t, then they will have earned naught but spite and enmity from the great hive mind of the people, who shall shew them utterly the door. It’ll be Obama’s fault for going all Red up in here.

That thar is yur Konsensus Thinkin thar.

Meanwhile in Utah the governor is poised to sign a bill that would criminalize miscarriage. How is that related? Well, I live in a land of crazy theocrats and patriarchal opportunists who warp the health care needs of people to either reap profit or punishment points in the name of their false gods. There. That’s how.

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John Yoo, Law Wizard

by on February 23, 2010
Posted In: politics

john yoo“So, if the President wants to crush the testicles of a terror suspect’s child, waterboard the dude, then kill everyone in his home town because they might be full of hostile insurgents, that’s cool with you?”

“Sure. What the fuck.”

“Is there a legal theory behind all this?”

“Well…yeah. I just told you.”

“…?”

“What the fuck. It’s the Why Not What the Fuck Who Cares theory. You learn it at the higher levels of neocon law-talking thingy.”

“Higher levels. Explain.”

“Well, after you get so many gold coins and brass rings and dodge so many flaming barrels, you get ten thousand extra lives and a magic gecko that shoots napalm out of its eyes.”

“And where does the, um, this theory come in?”

“Oh, well, you go through these gray iron doors and stumble into a room full of undead nazis with flame-throwers, so anything you do at that point is totally justified by the War Powers Act, the Constitution, the St. Crispin’s Day Speech in King Henry V, side 2 of ZoFo, and this giant bag of mushrooms I have been chewing on for the last ten years.”

“How is this theory formulated?”

“Sure. Ah … ‘The President is granted Absolute Dominion of Earth, Sea and Heavens to ensure a perpetual sense of peace and security in the mind of his constituents, regardless of merit, legality or mental stability.’ Another way to put it — ‘Cuz we said we could. Fuck you.'”

“Thank you. That will be all.”

“Um… am I, uh, … ya know….”

“Oh, your ass is covered. We have our own theories: bipartisanship, or moving on. In other words — ‘Cuz we don’t really care.”

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