Tag Archive: democracy

NIGHT AND DAY

“You know I work all day / To get you money to buy you things” —John Lennon & Paul McCartney I happened to be driving down a rural two-lane blacktop further away from… 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

SNAKES AND LADDERS

The drawing above is different from the usual; it did not rise from an idea realized by being written down. The image just came to me ex nihilo. Sorta. I mean, because I’ve… 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

ROCKING HORSE LOSER

This image is an updated four horsemen of the apocalypse. Centaurs actually, but keeping with the tradition colors, back row from the left: The red[neck] steed is civil war, in other words, xenophobia… Continue reading

CHILLIN’ IN BIGLY PARK

“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling… Continue reading

CHASING TALES

The supremes said (in just the majority opinion) that what trump says doesn’t matter. The fact he said, “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the… Continue reading

FIREWORKS AND HOT DOGMAS

  On one level, pyrotechnics and grilled meat are manifest pledges of allegiance to what the USA theoretically stands for, and on another, they are fun or yummy things to do on a… Continue reading

BLOOD SPORT

Who says the good ol’ U. S. of A. is not a democracy? It certainly is one, just not like the one described in civics books. Am I showing my age again? Do… Continue reading

WHEN I GET OLDER

“Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?” Those are good questions these days. The answers would seem to be no’s, not mattering if you were asking a… Continue reading