7 16 08 Can’t Take a Joke By Mary Lyon "Outside of basic intelligence, there is nothing more important to a good political cartoonist than ill will." –Jules Pfeiffer Evidently there’s a lot of surprising ill will with the latest New Yorker magazine cover. That’s gotta be Barack Mohammed Obama there, right? (See! I KNEW […]

7/1/08 The Sacred McCow By Mary Lyon I guess this is proof, after a fashion, that the war has indeed followed us home. Some of our leading veterans-turned-political-warriors, from John McCain to Wesley Clark and Jim Webb, and even a fresh-outta-mothballs Swiftboater seem to have decided that – never mind “fighting ‘em over there” – […]

6/25/08 The G in GOP Stands for Ghoul By Mary Lyon I’ve heard of rooting for the bad guys, but this is ridiculous. John McCain’s elite adviser Charlie Black opined to Fortune magazine that if there were another terrorist strike against our country in time for the general election, it "certainly would be a big […]

6/17/08 The Benediction of Big Al by Mary Lyon Now we know Barack Obama is the heir. Al Gore has now stepped forward to give his endorsement. It was not, however, quite the triumphant return to the political stage that I had hoped to see from Al Gore. In the interest of full-disclosure, I’m an […]

6/11/08 Worse Than Any Impeachable Offense by Mary Lyon I would never have thought there’d be any greater crimes than those of George W. Bush, nor any villain greater. I’m wrong. And no, it’s not Dick Cheney, either, or anything he’s perpetrated. Nor any of their colleagues. It’s Nancy Pelosi, and her colleagues, and what […]