Doesn’t the LA Times have their own cartoons? Not during the week, no. The LA Times is one of the top 3 national papers, but they use hardly any editorial cartoons since they laid off Michael Ramirez. They have less cartoons than any of the top 20 papers in the country. They do have 3 [...]

One cartoon, two versions, about a shocking event in 2009 – President Obama deciding to continue the war. Wow. I missed the 60 Minutes interview the LA Times is talking about here. (Is that show still on the air?) Discussing in strikingly personal terms his order to escalate the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said [...]

I watched part of the White House Christmas Special that Oprah put on, with my renewed interest in smoggy, buggy, busy Washington, now that I have to DRAW it. I need more pictures and details, to draw it. I can’t tell you how many school trips and family trips we had to Wash DC. Then [...]

Here’s a cartoon about Obama’s blue jeans. I read something about the frou-ha-ha – something about Obama’s blue jeans not being fashionable. From USA Today: Fashion bloggers have been, to borrow Obama’s word, “cracking” on the jeans he wore last Tuesday to toss out the first pitch at baseball’s All-Star Game. “For those of you [...]

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 [...]

The LA Times had a very interesting article about how they decide to write an opinion piece. (This was far more fun than most opinions they actually run. And, hint, Meghan Daum is one of the worst.) The Times editorial board meets three times a week to discuss what we’re going to say in our [...]