Shrinking Empire, Part Two
This strip continues the “Shrinking Empire” gag started last Thursday with Unkle 800-lb Gorilla. I have been planning for some time to use Unkle 800-lb Gorilla and Bling-Bling (see cast) in a series...
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Still fighting a cold, but as promised, I have posted the cartoon I meant to post on Tuesday today, being Thursday. I hate being sick. Especially the runny nose part. Drip, drip, drip…. Not that you...
View ArticleBail-Out Bonanza
The Huffington Post reports that financial services companies receiving Federal bailout money have been spending a good sized chunk of it on “retention awards” for upper level financial advisers....
View ArticleGalt Gestalt
“Going Galt,” named after an Ayn Rand so-called “captain of industry” (a.k.a., “wealth producer”), has become a rallying cry for certain free market fundamentalists, libertarians and self-style...
View ArticleTea with the Queen
The protests at the G20 Summit in London have gained as much attention as President Obama’s giving Queen Elizabeth an iPod. Which tells you something about the media. This story was inspired in part...
View ArticleBusiness Breakage
It’s nice to hear that progressives in Congress have insisted that the “public option” is non-negotiable in crafting health care reform legislation (despite some comments from Rahm Emanuel.) The irony...
View ArticleTime Ironizes Everything
Posting late today, so I’ll keep the production notes brief. This toon took a lot of photo-referencing: in order of appearance, Boss Tweed (based on Thomas Nast’s caricature, of course); Teddy...
View ArticleJobless Recovery Success Stories
Jesus on a pogo stick, I drew Sarah Palin again. Seriously, this has got to stop. But her parallel bizarro world keeps having consequences on our own real world, like the recent push against a...
View ArticleThe Deserving
Perhaps you heard the news that executives and so-called “producers” at the world’s largest banks and financial companies — Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America — will receive bonuses this...
View ArticleIf Persons Were Corporations
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Citizens United vs. FEC case has expanded the free speech rights of corporations and, more significantly in the short term, allowed our corrupt system to become...
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