with another fun-filled excursion into the zany world of topical political satire. This week: debating the coin.
New toon
Seasons greetings!
The bottomless pit
This is the cartoon I had originally planned for this week, before news of the Newtown atrocities broke. With the Times reporting the possibility of a deal in the works that includes Social Security, I thought I’d go ahead and get this one out there.
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Generic gun massacre cartoon.
Every time one of these atrocities has occurred, since the cartoon below first ran in January of 2011, readers have written to suggest that I rerun it with a blank line replacing the name of the town. And in fact, I seriously considered it this time, as a way of driving home the sheer numbing repetition of these massacres. But then I realized I wanted to take the idea a little further than that, so this is where I ended up, with a sort of sequel to the last one.