Rob and Margot online

A good friend of mine, Lisa Cox, has just started blogging, while starting a grassroots run for president.  This gives you an idea of her energy level and verve for multitasking.  Personally blogging while running for President.  That's virtually unheard of, and may be the edge she needs to overcome the Romneyatch political ...

Tom Toles (WaPo, goComics) is a perennial favorite of mine.  Here's a comic from back in 2002 that I scanned from my copy of the Funny Times (subscribe if you dare.)

A police officer responds to a post on Glenn Greenwald's blog concerning the detention of Jose Padilla.  I have not heard this argument put any better. What strikes me in reading the account of Jose Padilla's maltreatment at the hands of the government is the contrast with what I experience as a municipal police officer. The seizure of a ...

I think I've figured out why George W. takes so many vacations. George Bush spends approximately 40% of his time on vacation... therefore, he spends only 60% of his time in (the) office. Three terms at 60% occupancy rate = 1.8 terms, which is shy of the constitutional limit of two full terms. Don't be surprised if A. G. Gonzales comes out ...

I'm a big reader of political blogs, AmericaBlog among them.  Back in April, I ran across a caption contest at that site which showed a number of graphics that were generated by the Homeland Security Department in the hopes of conveying useful safety information, without excluding those who don't read English.  You can decide for ...

Roe v. Wade passed decided 33 years ago today. George Bush has issued a proclamation that today be ''National Sanctity of Human Life Day - (click for text of proclamation).''  Thanks, George. ''Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we ...

I've been reading up on the Intelligent Design debate quite a bit lately, and have decided to subject the theories of the ID movement to the flawless logical processes that generated these ideas in the first place. Premise: Any biological structure that is too statistically improbable to have developed by a random process (i.e., evolution) ...

This essay by Paul Krugman takes a look at the numbers behind Social Security reform. From America's Senior Moment ''Privatizers hate it when you talk about fees—about the fact, for example, that the much-touted Chilean system has administrative costs about twenty times those of Social Security, or that according to Britain's Pensions ...

I am always a fan of Toles, but I particularly like this one. This is high art, folks.

Margot sent me these... ''Hello. Are you a Canadian border guard?'':''Bonjour. Êtes-vous une esti de garde canadienne de frontière?'' ''I would like to apply for permanent residence''''Je voudrais solliciter la résidence permanente'' ''I am a political refuge.  The reason?  My former country has been overrun with morons and ...