Archive for the ‘Cartoons’ Category
The arrogance of power
May 16, 2020Arguing about the coronavirus
April 23, 2020
Source: Leftycartoons
The Simpsons on the two-party system
April 20, 2020Hat tip to Caitlin Johnstone
Degrees of ambiguity in academia
March 2, 2020
The world gleams
December 7, 2019
Source: INCIDENTAL COMICS.
War, power and the clothing of men
June 12, 2019These drawings are copied from About Face by Nate Powell for Popula.
Click on About Face to see the rest of the sequence.
War, power and the clothing of men (2)
June 12, 2019Click on About Face for the previous part of this sequence.
LINKS
About Face by Nate Powell for Popula.
A veteran and historian responds to Nate Powell’s “About Face” by Sam Duncan for Popula.
The Sum of All Beards by Adrian Boneberger and Adam Weinstein for The New Republic.
And why can’t we stop wondering “why”?
February 16, 2019
Source: Incidental Comics.
Another experiment in educational reform
December 26, 2018
Who’s listening?
December 5, 2018
Source: XKCD.
A cartoon history of metaphysics
September 1, 2018
Click to enlarge.
Source: Existential Comics.
Electronic voting machines are easy to hack
August 21, 2018
Source: XKCD
Electronic voting systems have long been vulnerable to tampering and hacking. This has been known for more than 10 years, but little or nothing has been done about it.
Having a vulnerable system is like leaving your door unlocked or the keys in the ignition of your car. Eventually somebody is going to take advantage of you.
If we Americans want to protect our voting systems from tampering, it doesn’t matter if the suspected tamperers are Russians, Republicans or somebody else. We need written ballots that are hand-counted in public.
That’s only one of many problems. Our election system is increasingly rigged to favor Republicans by discouraging or disqualifying voting by poor people, young people and people of color.
LINKS
How They Could Steal the Election This Time by Ronnie Dugger for The Nation (2004)
It’s Magic! by Greg Palast (2012)
How They’re Stealing Ohio: Vote machines audit function turned off—and worse by Greg Palast (2016)
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able to Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers by Kim Zetter for Motherboard [Added 9/31/2018]
How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018 by Edward Burmila for Dissent Magazine. Twelve ways in which voting procedures are rigged against poor people, young people and people of color, and what to do about them.
Ted Forth and the IRS scammer
June 16, 2018
.Happiness on Vimeo
March 17, 2018I came across this while looking for something else.
The knowledge illusion
November 28, 2017
Hat tip to Bill Elwell
LINK
The Myth of Independent Thought by Charles Chu for Medium. The last paragraph reveals that Chu is promoting a product, but his argument is interesting even though his sales pitch isn’t compelling.
Why the FCC proposes to eliminate Net Neutrality
November 27, 2017Doug Muder wrote an excellent post on today’s The Weekly Sift about how the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to end Net Neutrality will enable monopolists to dominate the Internet.
Long story short: Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers operate like telephone companies. Anybody can phone anywhere who is connected to the system, and every ISP charges its customers the same rates.. The end of Net Neutrality means that they operate like cable TV companies. You would have to accept whatever restriction they choose to impose.
Muder shows how the end of Net Neutrality ties in with the growth of business monopoly and how this ties in with the growth of economic inequality.
I strongly recommend reading Muder’s article, but I have a couple of graphics below that also explain the issue, although not in as great a depth.
LINK
The Looming End of Net Neutrality (and why you should care) by Doug Muder for The Weekly Sift.
How the Trump administration governs
November 24, 2017
Source: Real News Network. Click to enlarge.
If you are a president or governor who believes that government doesn’t work, you staff your administration with people who don’t want government to work, and your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This didn’t begin with Donald Trump and won’t end with Donald Trump.
How long can they put their heads in the sand?
November 12, 2017
Double click to enlarge
Source: Real News Network.
“Reality,” according to the SF writer Philip K. Dick, “is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
“You can ignore reality,” the philosopher Ayn Rand reportedly said, “but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
How long can members of the Trump administration ignore the reality of climate change?
Opening the mail
October 24, 2017
I came across this on the naked capitalism web log and, like Lambert Strether, I’m not completely sure this is a genuine Bill Watterson cartoon. But it sure captures how I feel when I open my afternoon mail.
The joys of retirement
October 14, 2017
The quest for perfection
September 30, 2017
Source: Incidental Comics.
The new normal 2017
August 2, 2017
Click to enlarge. Source: Tom Tomorrow.
On the other hand, read What Trump Is Quietly Accomplishing by David A. Graham for The Atlantic.
The genius of Hayao Miyazaki
June 17, 2017I love the movies of Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli. These videos give an idea of his genius as an animator. But you would have to see the movies to appreciate his genius as a storyteller.
I read that he is coming out of retirement—or that his previous “retirement” announcement was misunderstood. This is good news.
Survivorship bias
May 5, 2017
Astronaut vandalism
April 3, 2017
Source: xkcd
