I drew a version of this one in 2006, anticipating the 2010 underwear bomb. With a slight caption revision, it’s as good today as it was then.  As Mark Twain once observed, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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, [...]

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, and neither side has a monopoly. That said, former vice president Dick Cheney is taking it to a whole new level with his constant attacks on the Obama administration’s conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the handling of terror cases. Wasn’t it just a few years [...]

Yet another take on air safety. Short of strip- and cavity-searching every passenger and hand searching every piece of luggage, I have no idea how you make air travel perfectly safe from terrorists, and neither does anyone else, especially the people in charge of actually trying to make it safe. Their bureaucratic approach so far [...]

I was going through some old cartoons, looking for work to include in an upcoming show of my work, when I ran across this one from 2006. I thought at the time that exploding underwear was both a funny line and bizarre enough that it was unlikely ever to be a real threat. In a [...]

Finally, the 9/11 conspirators are going to have their day in court. What an uproar has been unleashed by Attorney general Eric Holder’s decision to allow  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his followers to be tried in a civilian court in the United States. The very idea that we at long last are returning to a [...]