We can label our attempts to stop politically motivated violence in a variety of ways. We could use the law enforcement metaphor or we could use the social epidemic metaphor. The Bush administration, however, has consciously chosen to invoke the metaphor of "war." An article in the current edition of…
Wick Allison was Editor in Chief of The National Review from 1990 through 1993. Allison donated a lot of money to John McCain during the primaries, but he is now endorsing Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States: Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for…
I didn't realize that Jesus had said these things (click on the image for a larger version): Empathy, anyone?
Back in the mid-1980’s, two graduates of Mercy High School (located in University City, Missouri) drew deeply on that Catholic education and decided to get together every week or so in order to create cartoons. Whew! That was more than twenty years ago. Our plan was to make cartoons so insightful and/or funny that publishers would buy them and then we would never need to get real jobs. It didn’t quite turn out that way. Mike Harty was the guy who could draw and I was the guy who couldn’t, but who was willing to offer lots and lots of ideas until Mike found one worth drawing. This brings to mind the idea of Linus Pauling: “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
Mike and I are both baby-boomers. We drew these in the midst of Ronald Reagan’s second term–cold war politics often worked its way into our cartoons. As did death and “meaning of life,” and God, and incongruity. We really didn’t have a plan other than to do something that resonated. After reading these, you’ll probably pick up on the reason why Mike and I weren’t as popular as the football stars in high school . . .
We worked at drawing and scheming and creating, week after week, until we had created a couple hundred cartoons. I recently spoke with Mike and asked whether it would be OK to publish some of them at DI. He was delighted. Tonight, …
Bob Cesca calls it Scarborough's Law, and it has been faithfully been implemented by the media throughout this campaign: When the Republicans attack, repeat the attack over and over. When the Democrats attack, attack the Democrats. For lack of a better term, let's call it Scarborough's Law, in honor of…