Halloween Is Coming!

I love this time of year: the colorful leaves, the crisp air, the football, the sugar shock from all the leftover Halloween candy ... Some people never outgrow Halloween. I am one of those people. Every year I get to relive my childhood trick-or-treating joy by drawing cartoons using Halloween as a metaphor.

The so-called "swine flu" should make pig costumes popular this year. Oink, oink.

When the news reported pay cuts for bailed out bank executives, I decided to go with a Frankenstein monster metaphor.

Speaking of monsters, the Republicans have been trying to make a monster out of Obama since last Halloween.

Balloon Boy Lives

Don't you just love the fact that we can say "balloon boy" and everyone knows what we are talking about? Like "Runaway Bride" and "Jilted Astronaut", "Balloon Boy" has entered the lexicon thanks to poor judgement and the 24-hour cable news machine. (Note: "Diapered Astronaut" also works.) The poor judgement in this case was provided Balloon Boy's idiot father, Richard Heene, who wanted to be on TV so much he was willing to sacrifice his son, Falcon. Even if the Falcon was never in any danger, what kind of parent uses his kid like that?

The saddest part of all of this? We created Richard Heene. He is a product of the "reality TV" we are bombarded with every day. That garbage isn't there by mistake. It is there because we watch it. I have seen the enemy and he is us. We are "Balloon Boy."

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Rush Limbaugh's America

I have received several emails this week from readers who have criticized my cartoon depiction of Rush Limbaugh. They ask if I have ever listened to Limbaugh's show. My answer is yes, I have, but I can only take him in small doses. His inflamatory rhetoric, lies and distortion make me too angry to give him that much of my precious time. These Limbaugh fans claim that Rush would never say anything like I had him saying in the cartoon below.

I would ask these Limbaugh defenders the same question. Have you ever really listened to Limbaugh's show? Where do they think I got the dialogue? Limbaugh has made many statements that could be called "racist", including this remark about how the NFL --- "Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

In this YouTube video Limbaugh blames all the racial tension in this country on "Obama's America."

Where's My Nobel Peace Prize?

I just got back from a week at the beach (yes, cartoonists need vacations too) to the news that Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Hey, I love Obama as much as the next sane person, but come on! Is it really time to start giving Nobel Peace Prizes for things we HOPE will come to pass? If that's the case, the committee should know that I did a lot of world peace negotiating in my head while I was on the beach this past week ... and I am not currently waging two wars. Where's MY Nobel?