Cartoon for August 18

Here’s my cartoon for today; feel free to comment. As usual, click on the image to make it bigger. As not usual, at least on my browser, all the colors are totally screwed up. But in a fun way! So I’m leaving it that way. Of course, it might look normal to you–i.e., no purple people-eater faces.

Cartoon for August 16

Here is my cartoon for today. Inspired by an Associated Press piece that did not receive wide publication in newspapers, it lampoons the military’s new GED programs for high school dropouts it recruits. Readers of my column may recall the Heritage Foundation’s unfounded claim–widely reproduced by right-wing bloggers and talk-show hosts–that US troops are better educated and wealthier than their civilian counterparts. In fact, they are significantly poorer and less educated, a reflection of their status as pawns.

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Cartoon for August 13

Here’s today’s cartoon, about the “pass the buck” mentality that has prevailed since the Iraq War became plainly unwinnable. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and feel free to comment here.