It now appears that Representative Gabrielle Giffords was the target of an assassination plot. The reasons are unknown, and it’s too early to claim categorically that the shooting of Ms. Giffords and the other victims was motivated by a political grievance. That said, it’s not hard to believe that the poisonous political climate of the [...]

I’ve been having a lively conversation with one of the readers of this site about, among other things, the meaning of words. As many others have in the past, he has predicted that if I don’t like what he has to say, I will “censor” his postings, as have the Rocky Mountain News and the [...]

  Okay, I guilted myself into drawing one today. I couldn’t figure out how to address three unrelated multiple murders in different parts of the world, so I chose the resurgence of the IRA. Although it involved the lowes body count of the three attacks, the others were isolated incidents. If a renegade branch of [...]

What a weird day. A deranged shooter in Alabama, another at a school in Germany, following a new explosion of IRA violence in Northern Ireland. I’m trying to write a cartoon about it. These are probably the most difficult ones to draw, because there’s not really a whole lot to say in the moment. We [...]