Author Archive | Jim

Dilbert Nails Washington Ethics

I suppose for this cartoon to perfectly capture contemporary Washington ethics, the senator would insist on a conjugal visit with the lobbyist’s wife. Or maybe that is only how Nevada senators operate. Scott Adams has again laid out political reality far more cleanly than the vast majority of the nation’s editorial pages. It is only […]

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8 Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan

And so now the Pentagon and the White House are going to tell the truth about Afghanistan? Pshaw! Here’s my 2 cents on the issue – distributed by the Future of Freedom Foundation and also appearing on Counterpunch today. ** I have a ‘reader survey’ question at the bottom regarding a specific line in the […]

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Afghan 24-Karat BS: Throwing Away American Troops’ Lives

The Washington Post article on this weekend’s attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy,” said the base’s company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. “There are literally thousands of trails around here. We just don’t have the numbers of […]

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Cartoonist Show – Greatest V for Vendetta Tattoo

The Small Press Expo this weekend in Bethesda, MD featured a heap of fine cartoonists and free spirits. I saw the best “V for Vendetta” tattoo ever. Full size versions of these photos are available at my Flickr page here. CARTOON IMITATES LIFE THIS BANNER REMINDS ME OF SOME PUBLISHERS I HAVE DEALT WITH… V […]

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Antiwar Interview on Ashcroft, Tyranny, etc. now online

Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat earlier this week on the post 9/11 roundup of innocent terrorist suspects, why John Ashcroft should receive “justice” (and hard), the outrage of sovereign immunity, and the bisexual congresswoman entrapped by a lesbian foreign agent. You can hear it here. [If that link doesn’t work, hit […]

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