Nationally Syndicated Editorial Cartoonist
In Keene, New Hampshire they hold an annual Pumpkin Festival. I don't know what you're supposed to do at a pumpkin festival but apparently a lot of participants think you're supposed to riot. Last year 140 people were arrested at this festival. Last Saturday a riot broke out that required riot squads, tear gas and... Continue Reading →
There's been a lot of talk during the campaign of this midterm election about how Democrats don't want to be seen with the president. It's entirely true. Alison Grimes, the Democratic senate candidate in Kentucky, won't even admit she voted for Obama. I don't know which is more ridiculous, her not admitting it or that... Continue Reading →
I don't want to make a cry of racism on this but I have to wonder, would we be so quick to yell for banning travel if Ebola was coming from Europe? Think about it.
So far we've had two cases of Ebola diagnosed in the United States yet we're having a national freak out. There seems to be a lot of confusion about how you can catch the virus and I'm not going to try to explain it just case down the road the information changes. I remember when... Continue Reading →
This cartoon made this weekend’s edition of USA Today. I love having my work reprinted in USA Today. I find that they don’t often run cartoons that cause controversy. That’s not a criticism of USA Today. That seems to be the practice at most newspapers in this era where newspapers are struggling to survive.
This cartoon has caused some. An editor at USA Today forwarded me some angry email from police saying the cartoon was disgusting. I agree that it is disgusting. Racial profiling is also disgusting and this cartoon wouldn’t exist if so many police weren’t in the practice of pulling motorists over for the simple cause of driving while being black.
Of course not every police officer is practicing this bad habit. But there are enough of them doing so that it’s an epidemic.
Let’s make a deal. Stop shooting unarmed kids. Stop putting 16 bullets into each of them. Stop breaking their car windows because they didn’t wear a seat belt. Stop shooting them in the street and stop pulling them over because of the color of their skin.
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