Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 5, 2024Flash forward to 2094, when people who are ten now will be like "the internet was different back then! We were all friendlier... there were hardly ever trolls... Now it's all gone to shit."
- Untitled May 4, 2024This is either incredible stupidity or incredible dishonesty from the cops, and I honestly can't tell which.
- Untitled May 2, 2024I love that Caterpillar boots were among the returned items, and in this photo an Amazon worker took, you can clearly see the "CAT" logo near the cat. Cat climbed into Amazon return box, found alive 630 miles away wapo.st/3JJ3vqT
- Untitled May 1, 2024A new cartoon for May Day! This has been an incredible year for unions in the USA - may next year be even better. Unions Have Always Done The Impossible! #PoliCartoon #Union #LaborDay2024 #MayDay2024 #May1st #UBI #LivingWage
- Untitled April 30, 2024People on reddit are fighting about a cartoon I did about why the US health care system sucks and I am enjoying this too too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ch0l0r/why_us_health_care_is_such_a_terrible_system/?sort=old
- Untitled April 30, 2024I just posted a new cartoon! It's patreon supporters only for now, but in a week or so I'll make it public. :-) https://www.patreon.com/posts/deus-ex-machina-103359912?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
- Untitled May 5, 2024
Category Archives: Iraq
20 March 2008
The sun was shining as I sat down at the Cenotaph. Like most war memorials it looks like a giant penis. No-one else was there, but I was I knitted a few rows, and the mother of kids I used … Continue reading
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McCain is an idiot who doesn't know Sunni from Shiite.
The Iranian government is run by Shiites, and hates Sunnis. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group, spends most of its time trying to kill as many Shiites as possible. Obviously, these groups are interchangeable, right? AMMAN, Jordan — Sen. John … Continue reading
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G'Kar of Obsidian Wings, RIP
Although I don’t often link to it — its focus is mainstream politics and foreign policy, subjects I don’t often blog about — one of my most frequently read blogs is Obsidian Wings. One of the co-bloggers at Obsidian Wings, … Continue reading
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Once they even believed in the redistribution of wealth…
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that George Bush can’t open his mouth without saying something stupid: This has received attention from “Bush is stupid” commenters around the world. But in commenting on George Bush’s inability to communicate even the most … Continue reading
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Never before has the phrase "in its own way" been asked to carry so much weight
From a review of World War IV, the new book defending Bush’s Iraq policy, by Norman Podhoretz: The most astonishing part of “World War IV” is Podhoretz’s incessant use of violent imagery to describe American politics. Critics of the Iraq … Continue reading
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Who do you want to win?
My favourite blog at the moment is Lenin’s Tomb. Lenin has a great breadth of coverage – I’m always marking his posts saying to myself “I should write about strikes in South Africa” and then I never do. So I … Continue reading
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Is there a bottom line?
I feel almost like an anthropologist exploring unfathomable territory when I read about American electoral politics. No matters how much I read, it doesn’t make any sense to me.1 The Democrats are considerably to the right of the Labour party, … Continue reading
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