Category Archives: art and humor

Cary [Odes], on a President’s Day hike, with boulder:

Believe it or don’t, Toles isn’t making this up:

This sly story from The Onion is on the top of their "most emailed" list…even though you can find it at the bottom of this week’s front page. Just shows how much people enjoy climate change humor. The obviously Photoshopped image adds a little spice: Northeast Stunned By Freak January Snowfall

Thanks to David of First Image for passing this one along from Bad Reporter (of the SFChronicle)…

In Texas, apparently, global warming is a myth. Or, possibly, some folks down there might have a sense of humor. Hard to know for sure. On the scientific side, here’s a first-rate picture of how warming is affecting the U.S. today, courtesy of the Arbor Day Foundation, which put it together after surveying 5,000 USDA-affiliatedContinue reading “That Darn Global Warming Myth, Again”

From Overheard in New York: Girl #1: Is it just me, or are people on the West Coast taller? Girl #2: It’s probably because people here on the East Coast are too beaten down by the wind and the shame. –72nd & Broadway

This is just too silly/good:

If you’re an enviro, you gotta love Tom Toles. He has done more for the planet with his pen over the last couple of years than just about all other cartoonists put together, as near as I can tell.

General Motors makes a statement at the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica this weekend, which featured bicycle networks, old cars being converted to biodiesel, new electric cars, veggie cars…and one enormous SUV. Which was widely shunned, I can attest.

Last week The New Yorker in its "Cartoon Issue" ran a two-page spread called "Guide to City Birds." It’s not linkable, unfortunately, because it’s beyond wonderful and into some realm of gloriousness. Okay, okay, I exaggerate. A little. But it was great, honest, and I’m going to bend the rules a little by giving youContinue reading “Field Guide to NYC Birds”