When you begin remarks with “I know this is a horrible thing to say,” you should probably stop there. But at a recent political event, Rudy Giuliani continued with coded speech questioning President Barack Obama’s love of country. The ex-mayor’s antics are a brusque reminder of a less hospitable era in New York City history.
Jeb Bush’s foray into Presidential waters naturally includes a coterie of advisors. Unnaturally, only one of those advisors isn’t from a previous Bush White House.
There is zero doubt that ISIS needs to go away, but the President’s request for war powers is troubling since as our “partners” in that effort are egregious violators of human rights. Besides if there’s one thing a political cartoonist should be cynical about, it’s a declaration of war.
Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore says federal law doesn’t trump state law. That sounds frighteningly familiar, doesn’t it?
When it comes to a revenue shortfall, the politicians in Nassau can either make the hard choices or come up with weird stuff like revenue-generating electronic billboards on the LIE. Though most people on the LIE would actually have to look up from their text messages and Facebook updates to notice them.
(I should note that I had so much fun playing around with Nassau County billboard messages that Newsday will put up a version of the cartoon with no words on it so you too can have a stab at a sign message. Look for that!)
Papal conclaves look positively transparent and democratic compared to the murky leadership selection proceedings held deep in the closed doors of Albany. There is apparently an unwritten law that says the new speaker must hail from one of the NYC boroughs, and be chosen very very quickly, without opposition. The Vatican emits smoke when their new leader is chosen, as does Albany, only with the addition of mirrors.
The “productive” GOP-led House of Representatives just passed its 56th Obamacare repeal vote. Even Herman Melville would have been shocked.
Both Nassau and Suffolk OTB are having some trouble not upsetting everyone over where to place an innocuous little casino or two. Most amusing of the myriad reasons cited for protests are the types of people it’ll attract. Like busloads of retirees? (But that’s for another cartoon.)
The resurgence of the completely preventable measles in the U.S. is nuts. We now live in an era so safe, cushy and comfortable that some people refuse to grasp that it wasn’t always this way. Mass vaccinations have helped humanity to thrive. Some also feel so safe that they replace scientific data with their own well-meaning, but debunked opinions on very serious illnesses and conditions. For this there are very real and dangerous consequences. I hope an enterprising scientific team is testing a vaccination for that.
I’m not a scientist, but I have noticed a distinct “obtuseness creep” in the messaging of the self-described global warming skeptics when confronted with evidence. None of that matters though, because climate change doesn’t care what they think.
