Sure, I'm curious why he died. But NO, I never thought he was funny. Not the animals, the plastic surgery, the kids. Nor is his death funny. I'm sad a talented performer died so young.. What about Farrah Fawcett, or Ed McMahon, or the strange, sad confluence of the 3? NO. Not funny, either. All ...

Nancy Pelosi seems so far away now, doesn't she? There was a story that didn't last long. Or tptb buried it! Yet it was just last month... I'm sure she did know about the CIA tortures in Guantanamo Bay. Politico says she did. She was probably only given a few details, and didn't quite understand it: ...

I think I just wanted to draw my first nuclear bomb. I don't know why, but when I saw how seriously the news was taking reports of Kim Jong Il setting off nuclear bomb tests, it made me kind of giddy, like laughing in church. Perhaps I am a bad person (but not saying I'm wrong, ...

I first read about this last fall. From the Christian Science Monitor: In a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, the high court criticized a federal judge in California for imposing restrictions that the majority justices said jeopardized national security in an effort to protect the environment. MFA sonars send intense pulses of noise through the water that can ...

When I was little, I remember lying on the living room couch with a sore throat and an upset tummy, miserable as only sick children can be. My grandmother was playing cards with a few of her friends, and I couldn't have felt less festive. One of her friends, Aunt Rita, made me honey toast. ...

I don't usually read other editorial cartoonists. I don't want to be influenced by them too much! But 2 or 3 times a month I look at some to see what topics they've covered, or haven't, so I can decide what to do next, or to find out what's important to cover, because they ...