The internets are full of declarative statements about satire these days, the most common of which being that "satire does not work unless it portrays its intended target."

So let's consider this image:

Clearly this cartoon doesn't work at all, because...

(This cartoon first ran in my various client publications three weeks ago, but still seems relevant in light of last night's results.)

Fifty three years after Dr. Fredric Wertham argued in "Seduction of the Innocent" that comic books were corrupting the morals of our youth, a public schoolteacher has been forced to resign -- and faced the threat of criminal prosecution -- for giving a student a graphic novel as a reading...

I was planning to mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the war by looking back at some of the more remarkable statements pundits made at the time. But I'm a weekly cartoonist, and this month I just had too many other ideas clamoring for my limited space, so...

Thank you, Bill, for working tirelessly to expose the nefarious machinations of George Soros and his ilk! (More on the shocking story here!)

I myself tried to raise the alarm about this secretive puppetmaster a few weeks ago...

(For more...

I had a chance last night to see a small sneak preview of an unreleased documentary called "Taxi to the Dark Side" by filmmaker Alex Gibney (who was nominated for an Emmy Oscar for his last film, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"), which examines, basically, how we got...

Two takes on a similar theme this week. The cartoon above, from November '05, is one of my own personal favorites. I don't think I've come up with a better expression of the sheer infuriating helplessness many of us have experienced over the...

... adding: in his opening statement at the Plame hearings a few minutes ago, Henry Waxman just said:

I have been advised by the CIA, that even now after all that has happened, I cannot disclose the full nature, scope and character of Ms....

Actually I didn't write this with Bill Maher in mind, but he is one of the most recent targets of the tactic it describes. Playing bait-and-switch with faux outrage is one of the right's favorite games -- just ask the Edwards bloggers, or John...

In New Haven, Connecticut, Clear Channel has just replaced the liberal talk radio station, WAVZ (which featured Air America programming along with some other syndicated liberal hosts such as Stephanie Miller), with ESPN sports radio. Clear Channel also owns the local conservative hate-fest station (Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.), which, needless...

I notice that right-wingers are still bringing up the "fact" that Michael Moore was "invited" into Jimmy Carter's skybox at the Democratic Convention in Boston, the implication apparently being that the DNC got together and sent Michael an invitation months in advance so everyone would be sure to see him...

On April 1, the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran an interview with Daniel Pipes (found via docstrangelove.com). Some notable excerpts:

Q: What is the biggest lesson you have learned from the Iraq war?

I'm midway through a weeklong experiment in sleep deprivation, otherwise known as a book tour. Last night in Los Angeles, the gracious hostess of this little corner of the internet urged me to post a plug for the new book, and who I am to refuse? You can buy it...

Reading Arianna's account of her appearance on Hannity and the Other Guy reminded me of a debate I've had over the years with a few friends who are occasionally invited to appear on these shows. The argument in favor of doing so is that it's important to make the...

An article in the Washington Post a few days back described the ways in which social psychologists are using high tech tools like brain scans to study political bias.

The new interest has yielded some results that will themselves provoke partisan reactions: Studies presented at the conference, for example,...

A letter to the editor in this morning's New York Times, on the topic of the NSA spying scandal, reiterates a familiar refrain: the innocent have nothing to hide.

You hear this a lot lately, from Bush supporters who are perfectly willing -- eager, even -- to trade essential...

Ever since Arianna invited me to join the ranks of her esteemed contributors, I've been intending to write a suitably impressive introductory post--you know, uncompromising and angry, but in a wry sort of way, with maybe just a hint of poignancy. But I think I'll dispense with all of that...