
But now I’ll never forget you. The story and images coming from Haiti after the earthquake were so shocking and grievous that it didn’t even occur to me to do a cartoon about it. I felt that tragedies like this couldn’t be summed up in an image or drawing. More importantly, that cartoonists would be [...]

I feel so bad about this guy, John Jones, who died while spelunking in Nutty Putty Cave near Salt Lake City. He and his wife are so beautiful; he was in medical school and she’s expecting their 2nd kid. (Utah, remember.)
More than 50 people tried to help him for over a day.
The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Ted Rall is a liberal who hates most things President Obama has done this year. I am (mostly) conservative, who thinks Obama is doing a decent job, although I can’t point out anything in particular that is great. So we’re kind of going in opposite directions, but I enjoyed pointing out to him recently on [...]