Category: California, here I am

Yahoo! News Editorial Cartoon on food stamps.

food stamps cartoon by d. barstow

An alert reader notified me that Yahoo! News Comics no longer has a link for me. The list of editorial cartoons is at the bottom – my name is usually under B for Barstow, of course. My political cartoons (Sorry, no link now. Uclick Gocomics threw away 2 years of my cartoons on Slate, Gocomics [...]

I am bad, but it’s Halloween.

Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown in a close physical encounter

Little later than I wanted, but still a good scoop. The LA Press Club has some pretty good speakers, but I was looking forward to the one on talk radio for weeks, and it didn’t disappoint! KFI’s John Kobylt, half of the John and Ken show, Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrison and KPCC/LA Times journalist [...]

Meg Whitman’s maid has nothing on John and Ken.

jerry brown, meg whitman, and meg whitman

Ooh, poor Meg Whitman. It doesn’t look good for her now. Not because of the loathsome disloyal maid, but I guess people just don’t like Meg enough. Personally, I didn’t like her double-speak about illegal aliens, where she said one thing in English and another in Spanish. Um, we have translators here, Meg, not to [...]

Happy Halloween to the White House Scrooge.

white house witch cartoon

I’ve never been attracted to drugs. Okay, I may have tried a couple of things in college, but BOR-ING. Still, I have thought we should legalize marijuana forever. WTH, why is tobacco so good for you, yet pot isn’t? They both smell hideous, and they’re both addictive, but let people have what they want and  [...]

Governor Schwarzenegger’s Bequest – Toot, toot!

arnold schwarzenegger wants a high speed train, people be damned

Arnold is leaving the building. That is kind of sad, but at least he doesn’t leave in a wimp like way, but in a very Germanic, dig in his heels, fairly consistent way. I still respect him, even though I totally believed the LA Times article before his election that he is not worthy of [...]