I couldn’t resist this one. The inept goalie was too good an image to pass up. After the beating BP is taking from the American people and Obama, and then (perhaps even worse, at least for the English psyche) the fumbled goal in the World Cup, the British seem about ready to refight the Revolution. I [...]

The first photos of birds covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak have been released, and I couldn’t help being reminded of the sad fate of another bird unable to escape an oily fate.

Okay, this one may be a reach. I wanted somehow to relate two unrelated events with the idea that the eco-terror we inflict on ourselves is as dangerous (probably far more so, in fact) than anything terrorists can do to us. I’ve looked at this cartoon about a dozen times in the last 12 hours, [...]

The oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew almost at the same time as the announcement that the nation’s first offshore wind farm has been approved. The happy confluence of events like these is meat and potatoes for cartoonists. I couldn’t resist the comparison, especially when I started trying to imagine the worst consequence [...]