Being new to Long Island, I’m finding its electricity charges tricky. Costs are generously passed along for the Shoreham nuclear plant, which never opened; a hated public authority owns the wires and the poles; and one private company manages the system while another runs the generating plants. I’m sure someday I’ll figure it out.
Pols across the ideological spectrum are now pandering even more than usual to the middle class, which is smart, seeing as according to polls apparently that includes everyone.
After having done a few cartoons ridiculing the White House Secret Service for ineptitude, I couldn’t really ascertain how they are supposed to stop drones from buzzing around the things they are supposed to be protecting. It really does fall to another agency to be completely unable to control the damn things.
I always wondered why everyone remained living right next to a massive, potentially lethal volcano.
A sharp reader could think this cartoon is in reference to the troubles of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. But nope. I sketched this up the day before he was charged by federal prosecutors. Albany pols can legally make a ton of questionable outside money, that’s the bigger scandal.
Governor Cuomo’s State of The State speech/presentation displayed some mad PowerPoint skills. And some mad math skills to.
It’s full steam ahead in America – But here’s hoping that one of the coaches is a bar car.
The term Dynamic Scoring in this year’s congressional budgeting is basically designed to calculate – against all historic evidence – that tax cuts for rich people end up magically sending more money to the U.S. treasury. It’s dredging up the Laffer curve, and also a good laugh.
If you listened to Congressional GOP leadership you’d swear the Keystone XL Pipeline was the answer to our energy prayers. I think it’s the answer to some other prayers, perhaps.
A regret of mine has been that the timing and placement of my career didn’t coincide with Mario Cuomo’s governorship. His character-laden features were a cartoonist’s dream, as were his struggles with an intransigent Albany and his own legendary conscience. Farewell to a good and fascinating man.
