Cool creamy ice cream and money for your summer vacation. My editor at CalWatchdog, Steven Greenhut, like many journalists in many states now, is really interested in pension reform, and what pensions are doing to the rest of the state as they grow more humongous. I haven’t read his new book yet, Plunder: How Public [...]

It’s Friday, and I think that that means Baking Day. Oooh, one of my favorite Slate cartoons ever! Who doesn’t like a cupcake cartoon, huh? A baker’s dozen, for you know-nothings, means 13 cupcakes or cookies or doughnuts or whatever. Bakeries used to be generous, and also smelled even better, and used real butter, and [...]

I live in a strange, strange state. What’s hiding in all that smog, fog, and detritus, anyway? Is California really the land of dreams, or just schemes? Is it magical, a place to find your success and fortune, and is the weather worth it? I’m about to find out. I’ve lived here over 15 years, [...]

Today was tough. I couldn’t find anything I wanted to do a cartoon about! Then I read this. According to Yahoo News: Some 14,700 rich Americans, worried about a stepped-up U.S. crackdown on offshore tax cheats, have turned themselves in under the government’s amnesty program. The Swiss Justice Department said it would hand over the [...]

and here’s another Halloween cartoon to scare you. Honestly, this seems like a cartoon a liberal would have done. Woe is me, we’re bad people, let’s forget to be happy when we can mope. Or maybe they’re proactive capitalists, and they know the way to help the economy is to spend money, even if it’s [...]

Sometimes ideas come to me out of nowhere! In this case, I think I began with the sentence up to budget…and then just tried out some endings. I also don’t know why I thought of Mickey Mouse! It’s not like I like the character, or like Disney in any way. But it was a symbol [...]