THIS MODERN WORLD

It’s that wonderful time of the year when I start to compile my highly subjective and entirely incomplete Year in Review cartoons. Given that I have the memory of a small woodland animal, your suggestions are encouraged! Email to tomtomorrow at gmail dot com.

Looks like we’re off and running.

Hope you’ve all been training and stocking up (so to speak). Christmas is a formidable opponent.

But for you fifth columnists who pretend to celebrate the holiday, while secretly of course working to undermine it, a small suggestion/request/pathetic plea: long-time readers will remember that I published a children’s book, The Very Silly Mayor, in 2009. It was my first foray into the field, published by a very small publisher, Ig Publishing, and was largely overlooked by reviewers and, well, bookstores. But the publisher’s still around, I’m still around, and it would be fantastic if this were one of those slow-building success stories made possible by the Power of the Internet, which I’ve read about but not really experienced firsthand. At minimum, I’d like to make sure the publisher actually makes a few bucks on this one — they did such a fantastic job on the printing and production quality of this book. I’ve had some bad luck with publishers over the past five years — if by “bad luck” one means “utterly horrific and dispiriting experiences” — but Ig did right by me.

The book is aimed at kids three to six, maybe as old as seven. So if you have kids, or know someone who does, please consider giving them the Mayor as you infiltrate the holidays this year, Christmas Warriors.

Mississippi (of all places) rejected the zygote personhood amendment, while Ohio rejected Kasich’s anti-union Issue 2.

Common sense so rarely wins the day, you kind of have to rub your eyes and do a double take when you see it happen.

… more at the Great Orange Satan.

Right wingers are accusing wealthy liberals who support Occupy of hypocrisy. As Steve Benen patiently attempts to explain, the word does not mean what they seem to think it means. But like so many right wing tropes, it’s an old, old tactic — the cartoon below dates back to 1997, but if I needed a week off I could clean up the art a bit and you’d think I wrote it last week.

A world much like our own, with one significant difference.