Certain words and phrases have a way of becoming a fad, or meme. It’s started by someone high in the cultural food chain who has access to a microphone. The most recent is the word “look” when beginning a sentence. President Obama started it back in 2008 when he was running for his first term in office. “Look, Gitmo has to close. There’s no two ways about it,” he might say to an interviewer. It’s shorthand for,” Look, let’s cut the crap.” By saying “look,” the speaker is aski

Vatican City––Pope Francis announced today that he is excommunicating Donald Trump. “I know he’s not a Catholic,” said the pontiff, “but what the hell. I felt like doing it.” In response, Donald Trump told the pope that if ISIS attacks the Vatican, he won’t lift a finger to help. Trump also said a religious leader should not be commenting on a person’s religious beliefs, calling it “disgraceful.” At the core of this dust up is the war between two religions, the Roman Catholic

The digital universe is all about pushing buttons. On, off, on, off,on, on, on, off, the binary code. If only one person in the world knows the secret code and won’t give it up, that person has too much power. There must always be someone bigger to keep power in check. The government has to be bigger than Apple, or any company when it comes to national security. And who, you might ask, is bigger than the government? We the peeps. If Apple prevails in this case, it will be the

That old question was answered many years ago during the heyday of the feminist movement. The answer: everything. From the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage movement in the 19th Century to the attempted passage of the Equal Rights Amendment back in the 1970s, the true answer has been equality, and it looks as if we’ve arrived in politics if not in salaries. I floated the idea for this cartoon a couple weeks ago as a rough sketch and got a decent response. The more I’ve read a

I’ll be giving an illustrated speech with cartoons at the annual Waterbury Regional Chamber meeting march 31. Contact the chamber for details or register by clicking on this link.