Pen Droppings

[richardf8]

I haven't been able to bring myself to do a political cartoon since the election, but today, this idea came upon me, so I sketched it out at work with gel-pen on bond paper. I couldn't find my pencil, so this is the totally unrehearsed product of my pen.



The different ways liberals and conservatives parse the messages they receive is something that has been occupying my mind quite a bit of late. This is also the first time I've drawn people from the rear, and I'm kind of pleased with how they turned out. I do wish I had made the TV big enough to do more with my Bush caricature.

Comments

[richardf8]

I don't know, it's a little superficial on the part of the Republican.

It's a bit of a reductio ad absurdum on both sides.

As for fixing social security, this is one of the few things for which I believe that there is a magic bullet. Adjust the salary cap for inflation, and the program's intake will be dramatically increased.

Of course that means raising the payroll tax on those making > 87,500 so it ain't gonna happen with THIS government.

[lordrunningclam.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the superficiality on the part of the Dem. My main office is in a fairly poor minority neighborhood and I've stood in line at the corner convenience store behind a woman buying an armload of cheap dog food thinking to myself that there's no way this woman has a dog.

[richardf8]

All right, you caught me, I'm partisan; but you knew that. :)