The New York Times is selling display ads on its front page, whoring out the Old Grey Lady. What next?
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
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So much for change you can believe in: the torture continues at Gitmo and will continue at least another year. And nary a word about the NSA’s despicable warrantless wiretapping and espionage program against American citizens.
George W. Bush, We Hardly Knew Ye
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My feelings about Bush’s politics are well-documented. As a political cartoonist, however, a subject like that only comes along once in a lifetime.
Germany 1946
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No one fears for the future of our once-great, now collapsing, country more than me. But if everything falls apart, Americans certainly won’t be able to claim it came out of nowhere.
Surrender in the Name of the U.S.
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Bush—er, Obama—can’t come up with $1 trillion to fill what Paul Krugman describes as a nearly $3 trillion hole. Yet he, and no one else, ever questions the wisdom of escalating our other doomed war, the one against the people of Afghanistan.
Not Dead Yet
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I’d like to be wrong about this. I really do. Just like I wanted to be wrong about Iraq. And Afghanistan. And Obama. But I doubt it.
Give the New Regime a Chance
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There’s no reason to be hopeful. Obama’s economic program is too little, too late. His cabinet is too moderate, too in-the-box to understand that he may well end up being the last president of the United States. There’s no dot-com-type event on the horizon that could rescue our overextended asses. And yet, despite everything, hope persists for the rats in the cage.
What Would It Take To Get People Shopping Again?
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What would get people to go back into stores? Indeed, shoplifting is up nationwide.
Chronicling the end of the empire is fun.
War Reporting on a Budget
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It’s true: for the first time in memory, all three TV networks have pulled all of their full-time reporters out of active war zone: Iraq.
