Cartoon for January 14

After saying that he has no problems keeping U.S. troops in Iraq a hundred years, a reporter for Mother Jones magazine asked if he really meant it. He doubled down, affirming that, as far as he’s concerned, the U.S. can remain in Iraq a thousand or even a million years. This got me thinking about how Americans have no concept of the grand sweep of history. Consider the proposed nuclear waste disposal site in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The facility is supposed to remain secure 10,000 years, and signs explaining the hazards would be posted outside. But 10,000 years ago was the stone age! It was prehistory! Only Americans could assume English will still be readable in 2,000, much less 10,000 years or, for that matter, that we’ll still be around at all.

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Cartoon for January 10

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Cartoon for January 7

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Cartoon for January 5

Barack Obama says people are tired of the partisan bickering in Washington. Why is that, after Democrats have spent eight years getting the shit beat out of them, it’s suddenly time to make nice? Tell you what: let’s spend eight years destroying everything the Republicans hold dear. After that, we can bridge the red-blue divide.

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