The downed drone in Iran is one of those godsends to cartoonists–you can do so much with it. Our increasing reliance on remotely-controlled unmanned weapons has its plusses and minuses. Fewer troops are put in harm’s way, but at the same time it’s much too easy to destroy harmless things and kill innocent civilians and [...]

I couldn’t resist this one. After seeing ads for expensive new cars with big gift bows on top, diamond necklaces and fancy winter vacations, I started wondering what the average American will be getting from Santa this year. With so many unemployed, so many forced out of their homes, so many desperate, and so much [...]

It appears that the supercommittee isn’t any more super than the weak-kneed Congress that created it in the first place.  With the deadline fast approaching for the group of twelve to agree on how to cut/raise $1.2 trillion, the likelihood is they won’t agree on anything except a cowardly formula for kicking the can down [...]

My kids were fortunate–we managed to get them through college without racking up enormous loans. Many of their friends, though, weren’t so lucky. With the job market stuck in neutral, and the cost of college going through the roof, graduation these days means long-term penury for many, even if they somehow manage to find work [...]

Okay, so every once in a while you do a cartoon that events overrun. Papandreou dropped the referendum idea after the opposition party said it would support the bailout. Now talks are underway for a coalition government, assuming Papandreou survives tomorrow’s no-confidence vote, which could throw the whole thing into disarray again. At any event, [...]

A day after Europe agreed on a bailout plan for Greece, the Greek government, reeling from the unpopularity at home of the deep austerity moves the deal imposes, decided to put the whole thing to a referendum of the voters. The outcome, if the vote is allowed to happen, is pre-ordained, and will throw world [...]

The Republican candidates for president are suddenly all hot to propose flat taxes. First Herman Cain, the pizza czar, came out with his loopy 999 plan. Now Rick Perry, humbled by his lack of debating skills and challenged to present something more serious than shooting coyotes while jogging, has come out with his own flat [...]

The deficit reduction supercommittee is apparently bogged down in the usual partisan squabbles. Big surprise. The Democrats won’t accept a package of cuts only, and the Republicans balk at any tax increases. Will the threat of the nasty automatic cuts that will happen if there’s no agreement be enough to move anyone off dead center? [...]

I’ve forced myself to watch the last three Republican debates. It’s one of those unfortunate sacrifices one must make to do this job. It’s getting harder each time to stomach the pandering, the self-aggrandizement, the bromides, banalities, platitudes and inanities, not to mention the mis-statements, half-truths  and outright lies this collection of know-nothings, wannabes, also-rans [...]

I was working my way across the radio dial on my way home the other night, delighted to hear the right-wing blathersphere ablaze with denunciations of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, a sure sign that they’re starting to have an impact. Oh, those commies, those hippies, those radicals, those anarchists, those evil revolutionaries and their [...]