Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt The dog, dead for years, keeps coming back in the dream. We look at each other there with the old joy. It was always her gift to bring me into the present— Which sleeps, changes, awakens, dresses, leaves. Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from oneContinue reading “The Dog Keeps Coming Back in the Dream…”
Category Archives: art and humor
For a Grouchier Future
Is it just me, or has Ted Rall not been absolutely hilarious lately? Take a look at his latest…
Great California Painter Moves On
The Los Angeles Times reports that Milford Zornes, who had a show just last year at age 100, has died. His paintings of grassy landscapes, rugged shorelines and coastal hills recall the time in California before freeways and housing developments. He was one of a group of area watercolorists led by Millard Sheets who becameContinue reading “Great California Painter Moves On”
Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo
Outbids Microsoft for Internet Giant Flush with cash after a deluge of online donations, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) stunned the business world today by outbidding Microsoft for the Internet giant Yahoo. The purchase of Yahoo! is believed to be the largest acquisition of a multibillion-dollar company ever by a Democratic presidential candidate, industryContinue reading “Cash-rich Obama Buys Yahoo”
You Too Can Be a Political Cartoonist — Even If You Can’t Draw
Actually, I like this a lot. Just shows that talent sometimes looks a lot like sheer will. From McClatchey, by Jessica Hagy:
Hell and Global Warming (Tom Toles edition)
Another classic from Tom Toles. Funny how recently his version of global warming looks a lot like…
The Truth About Hillary (from “Election”)
This is a rare treat, from the executive producers of that-little-movie-that-could, Election, which turns out to have foreseen the characterological truth about a prominent Democratic candidate this year: http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271557392
Mike Huckabee — Hindu Fundamentalist
Sometimes Rall infuriates me, and sometimes he just makes me laugh. Guess into which category this one falls:
Prez Concedes Important Global Warming Fact
WASHINGTON—In an unexpected reversal that environmentalists and scientists worldwide are calling groundbreaking, President George W. Bush, for the first time in his political career, openly admitted to the existence of carbon dioxide following the release of the new U.N. Global Environment Outlook this October. "Carbon dioxide, a molecule which contains one atom of carbon bondedContinue reading “Prez Concedes Important Global Warming Fact”
Climate Change Hits NFL
The NFL meterological department has issued an official statement on global warming, according to the Onion: "The phenomenon of weather-related African-American supracranial vaporous emission, or ‘Steaming Black-Guy Heads,’ as it is colloquially known, occurs when cold dry winter air comes into contact with hot, humid, shaven heads of football players, causing their personal water vaporContinue reading “Climate Change Hits NFL”
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