The winner of this week’s cartoon auction has decided to challenge me. I always think I can draw anything! We’ll see.
For $251 Lee Aronsohn will have me draw a cartoon about Ashton Kutcher replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, a topic my mainstream colleagues would heartily embrace.
This week’s winner gets reprint rights and the original art.
If you lost this auction, don’t worry. I’ll post a new one soon.
That’s what we’re getting: another neo-con, imperialist attempt to overthrow a Muslim government.
Obama’s Libyan war was sold to fake liberals as a short-term operation to protect Libyan civilians.
Now we’re arming and funding radical Islamists in tanks and attempting to assassinate Qaddafi. We’ve created a stalemate, a bloody quagmire in which two evenly-matched foes will fight on forever.
From the NYT:
In interviews in Washington, at NATO headquarters in Brussels and in the alliance’s southern command center in Naples, Italy, officials have described a new strategy to intensify the pressure — and drive out Colonel Qaddafi, a goal that officials now privately acknowledge extends beyond the boundaries of the United Nations mandate to protect civilians.
This week they are intensifying attacks on government targets in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. They plan to step up the effort even more this week, with the arrival of a dozen French and four British attack helicopters that can hit targets more precisely in and around Tripoli, but are also more vulnerable to ground fire.
This isn’t what the Obamabots signed up for. But this is what they’re getting. And just watch: they’ll justify it.
Because they will defend ANYTHING Obama does.
That’s what we’re getting: another neo-con, imperialist attempt to overthrow a Muslim government.
Obama’s Libyan war was sold to fake liberals as a short-term operation to protect Libyan civilians.
Now we’re arming and funding radical Islamists in tanks and attempting to assassinate Qaddafi. We’ve created a stalemate, a bloody quagmire in which two evenly-matched foes will fight on forever.
From the NYT:
In interviews in Washington, at NATO headquarters in Brussels and in the alliance’s southern command center in Naples, Italy, officials have described a new strategy to intensify the pressure — and drive out Colonel Qaddafi, a goal that officials now privately acknowledge extends beyond the boundaries of the United Nations mandate to protect civilians.
This week they are intensifying attacks on government targets in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. They plan to step up the effort even more this week, with the arrival of a dozen French and four British attack helicopters that can hit targets more precisely in and around Tripoli, but are also more vulnerable to ground fire.
This isn’t what the Obamabots signed up for. But this is what they’re getting. And just watch: they’ll justify it.
Because they will defend ANYTHING Obama does.
The New York Times’ endless quest to document the obvious picks up where last winter’s “after snow there is slush” blockbuster left off with the revelation that Sarah Palin will find AZ different from AK.
Somewhere, a rattlesnake is weeping.
Also, a $1.7 million house is pretty modest considering who Palin is. What, no Tiffany credit line?
The US and West’s aid package to Egypt and Tunisia is diabolically clever.
Both countries are revolutions in suspended animation. Egypt is currently a military junta.
The genius is, we look like we’re “helping” post-revolutionary governments while, in reality, we are financing and arming oppressors.
Maybe Obama IS smart.
Senators say we, the people, would be seriously pissed off if we knew what the federal government was doing under the Patriot Act.
So, why don’t they tell us? Don’t they supposedly work for us?
Interesting that we take for granted that a Serbian war criminal gets a trial while Osama bin Laden simply gets assassinated.
In the greater scheme of things, Serbia is more of a nation of laws than the US.
…after you cut Defense 95% and tax the rich 95% of income and assets. Until them, Democrats will keep beating the Republicans like a drum with this issue.
According to the Census Bureau, marriage is the new non-normal.
Structural unemployment is changing society in fundamental ways. We’ll be assessing the results for years to come.
For one thing, “The Lockhorns” may resonate less fiercely.
Like many other media outlets, the New York Times treats cartoonists as unpersons. Check out this piece about Israel:
A cartoon in the centrist newspaper Yediot Aharonot illustrated the concern. It showed Mr. Netanyahu’s returning plane flying near a volcano. Inside the plane someone says, “All in all, it was a very successful visit.” From the volcano, smoke rises that spells out “S-E-P-T-E-M-B-E-R.”
Newspapers and airwaves were filled with similar commentary. Avi Dichter, a former head of the Shin Bet internal security service and a Parliament member from the centrist Kadima Party, said on Israel Radio, “My fear is that this round of speeches in the United States may leave us and the Palestinians with a closed door.” He added, “It is impossible that in the present reality in the Middle East and here between the sea and the Jordan River we have no next step.”
Who drew the cartoon? We don’t know. But they namecheck the radio host.
The typical usage–“A cartoon in the New Yorker…”–is offensive to those of us who try to produce art that is non-interchangeable. We complain; they promise to change; they never do.
