I drew a version of this one in 2006, anticipating the 2010 underwear bomb. With a slight caption revision, it’s as good today as it was then.  As Mark Twain once observed, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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I haven’t posted the dailies of my comic strip, Freshly Squeezed, for quite a while. Here are yesterday’s and today’s. You can read it regularly, and even have it sent to your inbox every day, by going to Goccomics.com/freshly squeezed and signing up. 

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Congress, as usual, is paralyzed. It can’t figure out how to extend the low-cost student loan program. Without Congressional action, the interest rate will double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8, on July 1. The cost of extending the program for a year is estimated to be $6 billion. With the… Read full post »

I’ve grown to hate presidential campaigns. No matter what either candidate does, the other guy, and the  echo chamber of his supporters in Congress and the media, will attack it. Obama may be guilty of over-celebrating the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, but one has to ask… Read full post »

The big tech companies are spending billions to stockpile patents. Earlier this month Microsoft paid more than $1 million each for 925 AOL patents, Microsoft then sold 650 of them to Facebook for $550 million. Google and Apple have aggressively hoarded patents, as well. The reason? Yes, these… Read full post »

As usual, this completely dysfunctional Congress can’t seem to find the fix for Social Security. The trust fund is now estimated to run out of money in 2033, three years earlier than previously anticipated. After that, taxes will cover only about 75 percent of promised benefits. It&#821… Read full post »

It’s sad to see the space shuttle Discovery being flown to the Smithsonian. Not that the shuttle hadn’t outlived its usefulness, but there’s no replacement for it, meaning that manned space exploration, at least by Americans, is over for now and likely for a long time… Read full post »

Another Titanic cartoon. Hey, we only get the centennial of the sinking once. The Ryan budget, now the official budget of the Republican Party and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, is certainly bold. It’s also radical. Over time, it would essentially limit the federal governmen… Read full post »

Sunday, April 15 is the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Why is it that this event still grips the imagination today. Other ships have sunk, with greater loss of life, over the years, but none seem to fascinate like the Titanic. Perhaps it’s the colossal name, or… Read full post »

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I hate elections. Campaign rhetoric invariable distracts us from the real issues confronting the nation, and campaigns always seem to bring out the worst in candidates. Romney’s latest is laughable on so many levels, it’s almost impossible to parody, but I gave it a try. Based on… Read full post »

I’m a bit late with tis one, but the issues raised by the Trayvon Martin shooting aren’t going away any time soon. This country seems forever trapped in the surreal nexus of race, guns and fear that ended Martin’s life. At one point in the frenzied national discussion… Read full post »

Another one about the Supreme Court’s likely decision, unthinkable just a few months ago. If the Court throws this back to Congress, it may be another generation before Americans can enjoy the health care security that every other industrialized democracy enjoys. In the meantime, more m… Read full post »

The Supremes seem poised to rule against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate that everyone buy health insurance. Big surprise there, from a radically right-wing activist court, with the five justice majority willing willing to twist themselves into pretzels to achieve the desir… Read full post »

This cartoon will have the same strong impact all my previous 500 or so gun cartoons have–none. Pushed hard by the gun-worshiping fundamentalists of the NRA, state legislatures have fallen all over themselves in a rush to adopt ever crazier laws legalizing guns everywhere you can think… Read full post »

March 20, 2012–Republicans today unveiled their budget plan, which laid out a vision of this country’s economic future in stark contrast to the budget proposed by President Obama. Representative Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and chief architect of the GOP plan, said, &… Read full post »

I did a similar March Madness cartoon last year, relating to the severe budget cuts governments were having to make because of the recession. I can’t resist the visual metaphor of the tournament brackets winnowing things down. This year, it’s about the GOP budget unveiled by Rep.… Read full post »

The longest war in American history is finally coming to its predictable conclusion: like every other invader that has ventured into what is now Afghanistan, from Alexander to the Soviet Union, we leave the place to its people with little accomplished other than a lot of blood shed and a… Read full post »

The campaign for the Republican nomination appears to be taking place in an alternative universe, one where the enormous issues confronting this country–unemployment,foreclosures,the growing wealth disparity between the rich and the rest of us, the altered economy,the shrinking safety n… Read full post »

NATO, which assisted rebels in Libya during the successful uprising there, has so far resisted calls for a similar campaign in Syria, where Bashar al-Assad continues his murderous assaults against Homs and other cities where rebels have gained a foothold. Russia and China, meanwhile, in a cle… Read full post »

Every once in a while an idea for a cartoon pops into my head fully formed. This happened last night while I was listening to an NPR report on Super Tuesday, which concluded that it’s now almost certain that Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination. He has more… Read full post »

Several factors have contributed to the recent spike in gas prices. Primarily, Iran has responded to international sanctions by threatening to cut off oil shipments to European countries. Additionally, a number of aging refineries have been taken offline by American oil companies (just a coin… Read full post »

Rick Santorum, the latest not-Romney to surge in the Republican primaries and caucuses, brings with him a religious absolutism that I find positively frightening. The man might well be running for Grand Inquisitor, given his hatred of gays, his disregard for the rights of women, and his conte… Read full post »

Now that corporations are people and money is speech, and Superpacs funded by anonymous donors dominate campaign spending, it’s only a matter of time, I figure, before we finally can do away with the annoyance of having actual people run for office. In a perfect world, the corporate spo… Read full post »

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