Fringe:The Dubya Years

Two weeks ago, we had a pair of excellent models posing for our Friday morning drawing class. During the break, I discovered a table filled with tubes of veridian and burnt sienna paints lying beneath a sign that said “Free”. They all had little labels pasted on top of them with warnings to the user. [...]

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday told reporters that as an engineer, he’s sure that the planes did not take down the towers on 9/11. What’s sad is that a whole slew of American Engineers agree with him, but the mainstream thinking is the equivalent of a roll of the eyes and a “there he goes [...]

Yet another old but prescient cartoon by yours truly. I just finished watching Al Hunt on the Colbert Report. Hunt says the reason we have a dysfunctional congress is due to a lack of civility. I think it’s a lack of history. So I’m posting a cartoon I did back in 2003. This along with [...]

I’ve been reading articles online accusing New York’s mayor Bloomberg of overreacting to the potential devastation of Hurricane Irene. Manhattan seemed pretty much spared. Wall Street is opening for business as usual. It seems unfazed that outside the boundaries of the city proper, entire suburban communities have been dealing with power outages, floods, downed lines, [...]

Right before the snow came and the power went out, I came up with the bright idea to have an entire website dedicated to political blogs. I envisioned it to be like the Daily show, but lampooning print journalism instead of television. There’s a lot of nonsense out there, so it’s not as if I [...]