Recent Comments

1. about 5 years ago on Steve Benson

   Well, this convinced me to unsubscribe from Mr. Benson.

2. over 6 years ago on John Deering

   Unsubscribing from John Deering.

3. about 8 years ago on Mike Luckovich

   What’s scary is how much that frog looks like Senator Cruz.

4. over 13 years ago on Pat Oliphant

   Wait.

   “Yowzah”?

   Am I the only one freaked out by the use of the term “Yowzah”?

   At least the rich dude isn’t calling him “boy.”

5. over 13 years ago on Joel Pett

   Yeah, he really has cut taxes. And he has been deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants. Check the facts. (Helpful hint: FOX News is not a source of facts; FactCheck.org is.)

6. over 13 years ago on Pat Oliphant

   Ouch! I’m a big Pat Oliphant fan, but isn’t this going just a tad too far…?

   1) He’s doing what we criticize the Tea Partiers for doing by presuming to speak for long-dead national heroes, and

   2) he’s attributing to Beck the intention of inciting assassination, which is borderline libel.

   You can argue that Beck’s antics could and might inspire and embolden some lunatic assassin, but it’s another thing entirely to accuse Beck of intending to do that. Yeah, I know it’s an editorial cartoon, and I think editorial cartoonists should be allowed to draw and write anything, but I for one don’t want people in the Middle or the Right to think that this represents the thinking of those of us on the Left.

   And, yeah, I know the Tea Partiers (and Beck himself) regularly attribute evil intentions to people who oppose them–including the President–but shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard?

   Just saying.

7. about 14 years ago on Tony Auth

   Huh? Two days ago, Auth was comparing the new Arizona law to Japanese internment camps. Is he just trying to please everyone? comYics’ Right-Wing Echo Chamber Spam is completely irrelevant, unless he is trying to make the dubious case that the Federal Government is dysfunctional because President Obama may not love his country enough. Government on all levels–and certainly in the state of Arizona–is always dysfunctional to one degree or another, for countless reasons. If the Federal Government is more dysfunctional now than “normal”, I suspect that may have less to do with the President’s patriotism than with eight years of wanton deregulation (not to mention becoming mired in two wars) and two years of Republican filibustering.

8. almost 16 years ago on Dana Summers

   Wow. How profoundly offensive. Do you actually read the news, Mr. Summers, or just illustrate the McCain campaign’s disingenuous and misleading talking points? Guess I’ll be removing you from my list of favorites.

9. almost 16 years ago on John Deering

   Umm… Great cartoon, but at least two other commentators (Chip Collis on April 23, Seth Greenland on May 7, both in The Huffington Post) have made this analogy before. I suppose it’s possible all three came up with this analogy independently….