Brilliant.

The original is here.

Sing a song of yesteryear.

I was just going through some of the pages at The Dubya Chronicles, the website that Rob Davis and I did for eight years, 20 January 2001 to 20 January 2009, capturing the foibles and crimes of the Bush Administration in weekly cartoon form.

There's a lot there that still makes me laugh (and sometimes want to cry)and I thought our four-cartoon series for February 2008, just as the presidential campaign was getting underway, was one of our better stretches. The focus was mostly on John McCain, which is a nice coincidence (you'll have to wait a bit to find out why).

Check it out.

NOTE: all the cartoons are animated and you might have to refresh the page once or two to see each one from the start.

So true.

For comics/SF nerds only....

...because the link was sent to me by one of your number.

Nine Years Ago Today....

...cartoonist Rob Davis and I launched an online cartoon series, The Dubya Chronicles, which ran until one year ago today and recorded in graphic format (later posts were also animated) the absolute disaster which was The. Worst. Presidency. Ever.

If you click on that link, you'll find your in the middle of a retrospective of the entire series which ran aground after a few months; it now serves as the home page until I find the energy and time to do something constructive with the site. The entire archives are available at a link below the artwork and comment if you want to pursue our efforts through the years.

On that first day, Inauguration Day 2001, we ran the two cartoons below as a double entry. The second cartoon has been rearranged and the first panel truncated in order to make it work in this venue.

I thought they would serve as an excellent reminder that, no matter how bad things look this morning, something even worse is---and was---possible. And I think you will see that we had those guys' number right from the gitgo.

Nailed It.

Everything Old Is New Again.

The above is the first cartoon Rob Davis and I posted back on February 1, 2009, when we introduced a regular cartoon feature in the original incarnation of this blog.

The more things change, the more the stay the same. Especially Rush.

Maybe instead of of launching a new cartoon series, we should just do reprints.

Those GOP Women.

Every time I see Dick Cheney snarling at me from the TV screen, I am reminded of the days when it was the distaff side of that deplorable family whose visage spewed hatred at the nation. Lynn Cheney, in her days as a regular right wing commentator and co-host of the long gone CNN half-hour,Crossfire (a show which has the dubious honor of ushering in the terrible he said/she said/it's-all-the-same approach that dominates cable "news" today), was unmatched for venom and falsehoods stated as fact.

There's something about the right wing mindset that brings out the nasty in those of the female persuasion. Look at the various videos of tea party riots or the interviews of crowds outside political gatherings carrying silly signs and you'll note that there is always a crazy lady in the bunch, spittle flying as she denounces whatever is the enemy of the day for the wingnut.

Or look at the most famous right wing women on the national scheme. Ann Coulter, the rabid-dog  prototype. Michelle Bachmann, the too-dumb-to-breath prototype. Michelle Malkin, the don't-confuse-me-with-facts prototype. The list goed on and on.

Topping the ranks these days, of course, is Gov. "I Quit," currently wandering the nation via chartered jet while pretending she's riding a bus like common folk, selling the book she didn't write and stirring up the clueless with tweets she didn't write either and earning a spot as the second most respectable woman in the world in a recent poll. I suppose my combination of hilarious laughter and inchoate rage at this is matched by those on the right at the person who hold the top spot on that list, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, their own bête noire extraordinaire (the difference being, of course, that Clinton has compiled an outstanding record on the national and international stage for the better part of two decades while the Runaway Alaskan has done squat.

Still, she is the darling of of the base group the GOP calls its base. In a New Year's Day Doonesbury strip, the incomparable Garry Trudeau skewers that dream quite nicely. The characters are BD, the former football hero, who has aged into the expected right-winger, and his wife Boopsie, who has growne well beyond her early days as a Hollywood bimbo.