(I run, therefore I am) In the lead story in this weekend’s NYTimes Week in Review ("Intelligence: Why a Fix Is So Elusive"), David Sanger discusses why our intelligence apparatus is so difficult to reshape. Besides the political obstacles, Sanger believes the problem also has to do with...
Continue ReadingHere is another well-organized protest effort: The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with Global Unions and Oxfam, are challenging the International Olympic Committee and sportswear companies to accept responsibility to stop the exploitation of workers producing the sportswear that is marketed through the Olympic Games. Link here. (The image above...
Continue ReadingI’ve been looking at a number of sites focusing on the human cost of staging the Olympics. Story points include the covering up of so-called “unsightly buildings”, installation of the massive network of surveillance cameras, and the omnipresence of the “big brother” spy blimp. One of the most reasoned...
Continue ReadingHere’s our latest Olympic-inspired Presidential Games icon. It raises the possibility that the siege mentality that grips the country is as much a product of the Bush administration as anything else. It sounds like the media is (finally) catching on to the idea. Besides the recent front page article...
Continue ReadingThe games begin tonight, but (as usual) BAGnews has had a couple days head start. For today’s featured event, we focus on those scandalous dopes in the administration and their false start with Medicare reform. send this cartoon to a friend!
Continue ReadingHere’s our latest Olympic-inspired Presidential Games icon. Isn’t it time the Bush administration won world recognition for its artistry in gyrating around the facts? send this cartoon to a friend!
Continue ReadingOur continuing coverage of the administration’s not-quite Olympian efforts at governing. Today’s event: Diplomacy. send this cartoon to a friend!
Continue ReadingOur continuing coverage of the administration’s not-quite Olympian efforts at governing. Today’s event: Diplomacy
Continue Readingsend this cartoon to a friend! “I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there. So, I certainly wouldn’t imitate it.” –Alan Keyes, on Fox News, 2000. With the Republican...
Continue Reading…So says the next Governor of Colorado. Afterall, why wouldn’t the rocky mountain state want a Pilager for Governor? On the other end of the subtlety scale from Crosby and Nash, this clever campaign website looks like the real deal. Until you read more closely. Riding the wave of...
Continue ReadingIf Nader is no draw this time around, maybe there’s room for Crosby and Nash. Even if they don’t win, it can’t hurt record sales. Behind the scenes at campaign headquarters: Quicktime; Windows Media Player. Campaign website here.
Continue ReadingIt’s clear the administration has been having a ball rewriting the rules of governance while making a game out of the constitution. In honor of their sporting ways, we will be adapting the official pictograms of various events throughout the Athens Games to commemorate the highlights (or, better yet,...
Continue ReadingIt’s clear the administration has been having a ball rewriting the rules of governance while making a game out of the constitution. In honor of their sporting ways, we will be adapting the official pictograms of various events throughout the Athens Games to commemorate the highlights (or, better yet,...
Continue ReadingArt Spiegelman’s serialized 9/11 cartoon strip, “In the Shadow Of No Towers.” is about to be released in book form. The author of Maus, the graphic novel about the Holocaust, has again used the comic form to express, and work through, his own reactions to the terror attacks and...
Continue ReadingLook at that. You take a few days off, and you end up missing some of the best slander of the campaign. Here’s the link to the ad, created by a right wing outfit with ties to the old Nixon dirty tricks gang. Although they dispute Kerry’s actions in...
Continue ReadingI’ll be back on Tuesday. In the meantime, check out our most recent BAGnews cartoons below, including: >>Bush’s finessing of the 9/11 commission report, and… >>The funny connections between the terror alert and the Bush reelection drive
Continue Reading(Apparently, even Boris Yeltsin was cooler than W) In his Arts (and Politics) column in the NYTimes about a half year ago, Frank Rich speculated that the biggest reelection blindspot for Bush had to do with his ignorance of popular culture. This article was written just as the wheels...
Continue Reading(From left, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Matthews Band, Jackson Browne, Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks, Steven Van Zandt from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks, Patti Scialfa of Bruce Springsteen and the...
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