Cartoon for February 18

The government wants to use “evidence” collected during waterboarding to execute Guantánamo POWs.

Since waterboarding sometimes kills, this prompts a strange yet obvious question: Can evidence gathered through waterboarding be used to retroactively convict a detainee murdered through waterboarding?

Cartoon for February 16

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says torture—specifically slapping suspects during interrogations–is, or ought to be, legal. This is justified, he explains, as part of the Meme That Won’t Die: the absurd, totally impossible, “ticking bomb” scenario popularized by the TV series “24.”

Cartoon for February 14

In perhaps the most bizarre attempt to exploit the weird GOP’s Cult of Reagan to date, John McCain claims he was “inspired by [then California governor] Ronald Reagan” in 1967, while he was rotting in a Hanoi shithole.

Cartoon for February 9

After I drew this cartoon, I realized that it’s really true: tens of thousands of young American men and women have spent their entire adult lives in Iraq. This also ties in to the fact that we have no U.S. troops in the U.S.–you know, to defend the U.S…