Cartoonists With Attitude

My dsl still doesn’t work. At least I know what’s wrong with it, which is that it doesn’t like it when the rain gets into the phone connection box thing outside. I can’t convince anyone to fix it though.

I have a few minutes at a friend’s computer, so here’s some more catching up.

On 7/23, poison enhances self-esteem:

On 7/24, the pizza era ends:

On 7/25, someone is liberated from the wrong tyrant:

On 7/26, freedom comes in tiny complex packages:

On 7/27, there’s no time to deal with the biggest thing:

And today:

On 7/30, give me comfort or give me death:

Today’s Cartoon: “The Semantics of Torture”

The CIA says it will use “enhanced interrogation techniques” on detainees in its secret prisons, but won’t say what they are. Your thoughts?

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A recurring topic of interest from me is the way right-wingers seem to devote significant amounts of their time toward the most banal and in many cases non-existent problems facing society- as you can see, this fascination has plagued me even in the early, innocent years when I was an even crappier artist than I am today. Now, clearly the fact, now-revealed, that Ward Churchill was a plagiarizing lunatic was certainly a problem vis-a-vis his position as an educator, but as far as a problem vis-a-vis The Liberals versus The Conservatives, it served really no purpose beyond entertainment for right-wingers desperate to have something, anything they could declare a victory.

Or, in shorter terms, who the hell is Ward Churchill and why the hell should we care about him? Because you should. Look, a burning flag! Hey, some soldier said something bad about the war! Burn him! Also, Cindy Sheehan or something. Buy some crap and join the list.

*IT’S SATURDAY AT THE COMIC CON IN SAN DIEGO..
..and I’m just checking in real brief-like before I get back out on the floor..

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Cartoon Comments: “Good Things About the Iraq War”

If you have anything to say about today’s cartoon, here’s the place to post a comment!

Cartoon Commentary Thread

A very cool reader recently suggested that I set up the Rallblog to allow people to post their comments about it. I’m in the middle of revamping this site, but I’m not sure this is a good idea. As an interim test, however, I’m going to post a few cartoons and see how it goes. So here’s Thursday’s cartoon. If you have something to say, post your comment here. I’ll post Saturday’s toon up as well.

Where Are the Righties Now?

The sound of crickets chirping…that’s what you hear when I do cartoons mocking Nancy Pelosi and a particularly P.C. NAACP “burial” of the “N-word.” But when I do something that pisses them off (i.e., about their sainted soldiers, which is weird considering that no one’s stopping them from enlisting, you know?), they follow Michelle Malkin off into ban-them-all send-em-to-Gitmo land. Right-wingers cherrypick their outrage, never tempering their reaction with an acknowledgement that, as an editorial commentator I’m an equal opportunity offender who takes on the left as much as the right.

Then there’s the other Big Silence–the Republican reaction to a well-sourced argument that decimates their shibboleths. I expected a big reaction to this week’s column. After all, in just 1400 words I left the Heritage Foundation’s much-vaunted claim that US soldiers are at least as well educated and wealthy as the average Joe and Jane twisting in the statistical winds. I know the right-wing bloggers read it–I have the software to track that–but they decided not to say boo.

At least I’m honest. When right-wingers are right, I say so. Unfortunately, too many partisans–on all sides of the American political debate–simply put their hands over their ears and pretend that countervailing evidence never existed.

Check out this feature in the latest issue of Atlantic Monthly. They’ve taken a Google shot of a street in a Baghdad neighborhood and detail the homes that have been abandoned, guarded, raided, or had residents that have been killed or kidnapped.

House 1

Occupied by a Sunni family of seven, headed by a well-known businessman. In the Spring of 2006 his four-year-old grandson was abducted and ransomed for $20,000. The kidnappers sent a note of apology with the boy, saying they need the money to leave Iraq.

(via David Axe)

I have a new one page comic in the Boston Phoenix about The Secret.

You can read my first comic about the self-help book and all I really have to say on the subject here.

Though it pains me to say it, Romney is completely right, and I already said so myself. Presidential candidates, from all parties, should be above stupid and juvenile gimmicks like animated cartoons asking them questions (hell, I think having cartoon characters give out Oscars is dumb). So like Michael Moore’s Cuba scenes in SiCKO, that one moment of the debate where credibility was thrown out the window gave Romney the opportunity to dismiss the whole thing.

Of course, what candidates should not be above is answering questions from real people, which is what 90% of the YouTube debate was about. Conservatives spent a good chunk of time claiming Democrats were “scared” of Fox News. By that logic, Republicans are scared of… Americans.