Yearly Archives: 2015

Officer Hall Monitor

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Officer Hall MonitorFootage of a school police officer (euphemistically called a “resource officer”) assaulting a student in a classroom went viral last week and sane people were appalled. If I learned anything from posting cartoons about police brutality, it’s that police emotions are more delicate and volatile than any hormone-addled teenager’s. Even the babies running for the Republican nomination can take a little constructive criticism before they take their debate ball and go home.

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Democratic Debate Tweaks

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Democratic Debate TweaksLast week’s Democratic debate was a welcome relief from the GOP train wrecks. While light on foreign policy, it was a substantial discussion of what’s at stake in the upcoming election. 15 million tuned in, the most for any Democratic debate, which is great free advertising for a party that’s been struggling for air time against the Trump Show™.

The next three debates won’t get that number of eyeballs combined. In a bid to pave the way for Hillary, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz scheduled them all on weekends and possibly in the middle of the night between infomercials. I’ll never know because I spend my weekends doing fun things and staying as far away from the news-cycle grind of the workweek.

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Collateral Damage Condolences

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Collateral Damage CondolencesRemember Afghanistan? Although the “Afghanistan War” proper ended, we’re still bombing stuff over there, and finding new and innovative ways to be terrible. The most recent example is the prolonged airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz.

As far as international PR campaigns go, bombing our way to peace makes us look either dumb or malicious, but most likely both.

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Free Market Pharmacy

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Free Market PharmacyEveryone had a good week hating on Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund bro who became a pharmaceutical patent troll. His loathsome and tone-deaf response to the outrage makes him very easy to hate. But he’s just a symptom of the entire pharmaceutical industry, which holds people’s health hostage in order to extort the highest possible prices out of the public.

This could be the last time I’ve drawn John Boehner. His resignation comes at a perfect time, because I was just about to run out of orange pixels.

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Rupert Murdoch’s National Geographic

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Rupert Murdoch's National GeographicI was bummed when I heard Rupert Murdoch was purchasing National Geographic. I haven’t read it regularly in years, but it was a huge part of my childhood; right up there with “Highlights” and “MAD” magazine. Now that it’s owned by a climate change skeptic who’s also the progenitor of toxic cable and tabloid news, I won’t be picking it up the next time I’m waiting at the dentist’s office.

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