I did this cartoon for The Sacramento Bee.
This week: President Obama swung through California again this week. As usual, he didn’t set foot in the Central Valley, ground zero for the mortgage meltdown.
Died For Our Sins
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People fought and died for our right to choose between two center-right corporate-owned warmongering candidates. Why’d they bother?
Can I Have Osama’s House?
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Obama gets props for foreign policy wins like killing bin Laden. But where is his attention to the homefront, where the economy is melting down and revolution is brewing?
Budget Hero: The Game
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The video game “Budget Hero” lets players try to balance the federal budget. What if all problems are solved by video games in the future?
The Politics of Unemployment
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Republicans can stop joking around: they know as well as anyone that paying off the jobless is the best way to keep people from rioting in the streets—and them in power.
Bailouts Everywhere, Not a Drop For People
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Everyone’s getting a bailout. Just not people who need them.
Your Taxdollars at Work
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People need help. Banks get it instead. The only nice part is, it’s interesting to see rank capitalism, and its perverse relationship with government, exposed in all its glory.
