Tag Archive: authoritarianism

DIABOLUS EX MACHINA

“If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.” ―Marilyn Manson Every once and a while I pretend to be an editorial cartoonist. But being a real one is… Continue reading

DIGITAL GRAFFITI

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” —Oscar Wilde Commuters/consumers are dazzled by a sea of billboards above them in an… Continue reading

UNFUNNY PAGES

“The country is doing well in so many ways. But there’s such divisiveness.” —DJ trump THE FAT MAN WAS FUNNY a long time ago when he was merely a sleazy buffoonish playboy-entrepreneur, but… Continue reading

THE LAST MANAGER

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Frank Herbert, Dune We… Continue reading

BIG SCREAM TV

“The thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football.” —Terry Pratchett, English  fantasy novelist What you see on the screen in the screen is… Continue reading

JANES ROE AND THE ELDERS

“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”― Margaret Atwood This rare venture into editorial cartoonland and theology is about a contemporary issue: the United States… Continue reading

FAT ICARUS

One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. —Gustave Flaubert A presence of an absence, a trump shaped hole, that is not going… Continue reading

THE NOT OK CORRAL

THERE ARE SOME ODD SIDES TAKEN these hyper-partisan days. Look at the folk backing Hair Drumpf. It’s a logic defying alliance of “conservative” establishment elites who are getting what they want with him… Continue reading

TRUMPTYCH

“A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and only one power that can confront money is left. Money is overthrown and abolished by blood.” —Oswald Spengler, The… Continue reading

THE FIELD OF SCHEMES

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by… Continue reading