Illustration Friday
Friday, February 26th, 2010 by Matt BorsA woman puts on makeup in her car while tossing trash out the window.
Archive for February, 2010
Cartoon: The He-Cession!
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Mikhaela Reid
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Only 3% of Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs–clearly that’s 3% too many!
Drawn for Women’s eNews (temporary link here).
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Mikhaela B. Reid * Angry Cartoonist
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• “ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT MIKHAELA!” by Mikhaela Reid, with foreword by Ted Rall. http://www.lulu.com/content/781402
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Health Care Discussion
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Barry DeutschWell, I know what I’ll be listening to as I draw tomorrow. Use this thread to meet all your Health Care Policy Discussion posting needs.
I think these paragraphs from Newsweek explain why it’s unlikely that the big health care summit will lead to a bill that both parties will vote for:
Writing in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, Gerald Seib made an observation about tomorrow’s health-care summit that I think is critical to understanding the proceedings. “The first is that the most basic predicate for success in any negotiation—that both sides, at the outset, think reaching an agreement is preferable to failing to reach an agreement—doesn’t exist here,” he wrote. In negotiation parlance, they call that a BATNA: the best alternative to a negotiated agreement. To figure out how your opponents will act, you need to understand the outcome they envision if the negotiation fails—that is, at what point can they happily walk away. The Democrats’ BATNA is that they continue along the path they’ve been heading: have the House pass the Senate bill and make fixes like those the White House offered on Monday through the budget-reconciliation process in the Senate, where they will need only 51 votes.
The Republican BATNA is that health-care reform fails. The summit doesn’t sway any of their members or any of those Democrats who have been hedging their bets, and the bill just limps toward death. More important, it’s not clear that they’d prefer a negotiated outcome to their BATNA. If they successfully negotiate for the inclusion of some of their signature items—say, for example, medical-malpractice reform—they might feel compelled to vote in favor of reform. That hands the president and his congressional allies an enormous win and undermines their yearlong project of attacking Democratic reform initiatives. They can’t vote for what they’ve spent months calling a “government takeover of health care” and then continue promoting their “Obama is a crazy liberal” narrative. No agreement would seem their preferred outcome. This is not a good-faith negotiation.
This seems like a good moment for me to reprint this old strip. With luck, maybe the strip will be obsolete in a few years. It could happen!
Cartoon: The Future of Airline Seating
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Mikhaela Reid
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Mikhaela B. Reid * Angry Cartoonist
boilingpointcartoon@mac.com * http://www.boilingpointcartoon.com
Mikhaela B. Reid * Angry Cartoonist
boilingpointcartoon@mac.com * http://www.boilingpointcartoon.com
http://twitter.com/m1khaela
• “ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT MIKHAELA!” by Mikhaela Reid, with foreword by Ted Rall. http://www.lulu.com/content/781402
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Space-Guys…
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Kevin Moore
NASA being underfunded is a damn shame. The public is too dumb to find any value in the stuff they do, so their budgets get cut while the Pentagon gets to spend trillions on bombing people and boring-ass places on Earth. Near Earth Orbit will have to be turned into a NASCAR track before enough people give a shit.
And yeah, there are other worthy things the money being pissed away by the Defense Department can be spent on, but none of them produce spectacular wallpapers for my desktop.
UPDATE: Morning Edition on NPR covers NASA’s financial pickle.
Ouch!
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Jen SorensenLove this photo. Via my colleague, Campus Progress editor Kay Steiger, Canada rubs it in (presumably after hockey loss?):
Digital Caricature: John Yoo
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Kevin Moore
Last night I experimented with drawing caricature from digital scratch. I think it looks okay — as in, it looks like him and it’s cartoony — but it doesn’t grab me the way pen on paper does. I am less comfortable drawing digitally than I am using traditional tools. That can always change, given that I worked hard to train myself with nibs and brushes, I can do it with a stylus and tablet.
Yet I don’t really think this wound up as a caricature; it’s a political cartoon. Old habits die hard. I had intended putting a bag labeled “child testicles” under his upraised foot, but that seemed to skirt the edge of bad taste. Maybe.
Meanwhile, on a more cheerful note, there is a new page of Wanderlost up!
| Originally published at mooreroom. |
Dammit, We Have a Narrative!
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by Kevin MooreFrom your “liberal” New York Times:
But havent I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship?
It depends on what you mean by bipartisanship. Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas to their health plan and not just fig leaves. If the Democrats did that, they would have a bill worthy of the name bipartisan.
Emfuzzies mine. If only Democrats would just reach out to the other side and invite their input and listen to their ideas and stroke them under the chin and greet them at the door in nothing but a big ribbon and a bottle of champagne, then they would truly earn that most honored most esteemed most thigh tingling mantle, “bipartisan.”
But if they don’t, then they will have earned naught but spite and enmity from the great hive mind of the people, who shall shew them utterly the door. It’ll be Obama’s fault for going all Red up in here.
That thar is yur Konsensus Thinkin thar.
Meanwhile in Utah the governor is poised to sign a bill that would criminalize miscarriage. How is that related? Well, I live in a land of crazy theocrats and patriarchal opportunists who warp the health care needs of people to either reap profit or punishment points in the name of their false gods. There. That’s how.
| Originally published at mooreroom. |
