Baltic Amber

Scenes of a great summer. Lucky to be an illustrator in these crazy times for starters. And lucky to stop being an illustrator for a few weeks and check completely out.  Well not completely. I was still surgically connected to my sketchbook.  So here are my scribbles and snaps from a sweet sailing aboard The … Read more

Maxed Out

Max Baucus, (D-Aetna), released his plan, at last, yesterday.  It is such a lousy health “reform” that it might just help revive the Public Option. This thing kills the Public Option and gives giant profits to the Medical Industrial Complex might actually help the debate. Democrats can see now that something so watered down and … Read more

Got Stupid?

Got stupid?  Do we! . . and how!!  This summer has taken our temperature as a nation and we have come up a walking basket case of stupid.  So here it is, the conspiracy as a tumor: representing the medical industry, a monopoly, the only ones who want to keep this diseased system . . … Read more

Gone Fishing

Fixing to go on hiatus for the next few weeks and missing y’all already.  In the meantime I leave you with some recent things for print.  First, some thoughts on topics I might have blogged on: The heart and soul of The New Yorker apparently is NOT fired.  Stanley Ledbetter, the erudite, urbane receptionist/gallery curator/philosopher-king … Read more