Tom Toles for November 03, 2009

Oh when those poppy fields get rotten, can’t pick very much…

Is that Tom at work in the bottom right corner?

Ok, what does the Wizard of Oz have to do with any of this? Seriously, what is the point of this cartoon?

haha dtroutma, that is part of his signature.

Winter………… or should it be harvest ?

“Winter” probably alludes to the movie when the Good Witch sent snow to kill the poppies and waken the travelers. http://tinyurl.com/5h68pw

Well, here’s the thing…I’ve never watched Wizard of Oz. :| Unbelievable, I know. Same thing with Gone with the Wind. Must have been the year of 1939. I know there’s a yellow brick road, a wicked witch of the east, Kansas, a cowardly lion , a scared scarecrow, a tinman (no brain?) and a doggy. Red shoes? Wasn’t there a fourth? I could wiki it but meh. So, I don’t get the ‘toon. :(

Tom, good work, as usual. Keep it up!

Don’t you just luv watching angry, little nobodies trying to lecture Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonists on how they should draw ‘toons?

LOL

where’s O’BAMBI?

fennec: Will do, I like your book recommendations. Not even 2 and she already loves books like her mom (&dad). ;-)

No heart, no brain, got us into the mess. Courage without wisdom is best left asleep, and our policy is more like being on PCP than Ambien.

Fennec, agree again- We read to our kids from an early age. They “got” stuff by four years old many “grown-ups” can’t seem to grasp in our current culture. Reading at a young age, even being read to, builds imagination, intelligence, and the ability to actually analyze what you’re reading, or being told.

As in most cases, seeing the movie is no substitute for reading the book, but in this case reading the book is also no substitute for seeing the movie.

Baum’s “Wizard of Oz” is amusing but mediocre; MGM’s “Wizard of Oz” is sublime.

There are enough differences between the two to consider them separate animals, and the movie is a better movie than the book is a book (like “Gone With The Wind”).

No yellow brick road for this one.

Oh fer cryin’ out loud, another balloon one!

When winter comes to Oz, Dorothy will curl up inside a nice woolen blanket; it’s her Afghan Policy.

I saw “Wizard…” on the big screen just a couple of weeks ago. It may be the first time I’ve ever seen it other than on TV. That twister is still mighty scary (when I was a kid watching it on TV, I’d duck under the blankets when it came), and if 6 year olds today find it “too tame” I hope they never decide that REAL ones are nothing to worry about.

Actually the somatic qualities of the poppy fields make perfect sense as the poppies create the resources the Taliban, the War lords and the Afghan Government are fighting over. How about a small footprint while the Afghans sort out their loyalties? Better now than 6000 American deaths later…

No, Karzai is in Obama’s hip pocket.