Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, is out! Oprah honored her with a chat. All forgiven. I see Top of the Ticket in the LA Times just reviewed Going Rogue: An American Life. No, not really! Instead, Andrew Malcolm just quoted from a review in the WaPo written by Ana Marie Cox, the original Wonkette from ...

The slayings at Fort Hood came very close to Veteran's Day, so I think some cartoonists broke out their sad pens early. I did a cartoon on something worse than Ft. Hood, which I'll put up later this week. Meanwhile, tomorrow is Veteran's Day, so... Since I just started doing op-ed cartoons in February for Slate, ...

I'm really sad to see the health adjustment plan won't make it through. I wanted it to be an arrow in the heart of the evil, lying, non-life saving insurance companies. Usually I'm a capitalist, all for anyone who wants to make money, anyhow. Let the strongest one win. But not with health insurance. It's like ...

What's so bad about Fox News? I do think they report more about sad things like murders on our local Channel 11, and I don't like our local news team much. But when Obama's task force starts trying to exclude them from national media events & announcements, it does make the White House look a ...

When Ted Kennedy passed away, I re-investigated the Chappaquidick death of Mary Jo Kopechne here. And I came across a quotation that has stuck with me: “To those whom much is given, much is expected.” Photo of bridge with new guard rail from Wikipedia. Some attribute it to John Kennedy, but I read that the Kennedy patriarch, ...

Balloon boy, go away. I didn't see the story on Twitter. Half the trends there are people promoting themselves, or are crybaby stories, boring. I got more interested in the story when I saw the weird parents. A giant Mylar balloon took off from the backyard of the Heenes' northern Colorado home Thursday. The couple said they ...