Blasts From the Recent Past

In honor of this week's historic financial meltdown, a cartoon from last July ...

Also: due to a family emergency last week, I came late to lipstick-on-a-pig-gate, but here's a cartoon from August that pretty much summed it up in advance ...

Tom Tomorrow's latest compilation, The Future's So Bright I Can't Bear To Look, has just been released from NationBooks. For more information, visit www.thismodernworld.com.

Comments

[plooger]

The "stupid distraction" strip could hardly be more applicable to MSNBC's Morning Joe than if it had been written specifically for it. I've tuned in a few times over the last week, and EVERY time they've been talking about all those people who say Sarah Palin can't be a mom *and* a vice president. Except THEY're the only ones I ever hear saying such a thing.... to the exclusion of discussing anything substantial regarding her professional record.

[GuyRC]

Invisible Hands of the Free Market. What a cool secret society that would make! We could have secret meetings in secret lodges, initiations, and... oh, i guess we could just have another round of golf at the country club and do all that. Never mind.

[CompetenceMatters]

I love your work. I would love to see a cartoon about the wall of Secret Service that surrounds palin & family at all times, so that the media can't get close enough to ask a question; also, Palin being interviewed by, say, Amy Goodman.

The fact that we are not allowed to interview a candidate but are asked to hire her on faith is ludicrous. No self-respecting CEO would hire a 'pig in a poke', so to speak.

[wsblake]

tom tomorrow for vice president- he's on the money, smart and funny as hell

[davusan]

I'm going to go Lewis Black on you and say "WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY?"!!!!

[ld]

Just thought I'd say: I luv your work!!

[Opsimath44]

Speaking of distractions... HP to cut 25K jobs... and who used to be the CEO there?

[ChicagoSuz]

"Why do my lips keep flapping?..." LOL Too funny.
Ironically, although Obama never did use the lipstick/pig reference to disparage Palin, the McCain campaign immediately did. I figure they must know something we don't... Hmmm....

[lovethesinner]

Tom, you really are the best. Seriously. THE BEST.

[lechatnoir]

Tom, you're a master. Keep up the good fight hermano.

[lechatnoir]

Tom Tomorrow, you are one of the best at what you do, steadily, hands down. Keep up the good fight compadre.

[oldmilitant]

Man, you're good.

[panchovilla]

Is this guy a genius or what?

[psmarc93]

Hey Tom -- doesn't it feel great to be right? (sarcasm, deep sigh, shuffle off to carboard box in skid row)

[albanaeon]

One of the joys of my local newspaper is Tom Tomorrow with its amazing ability to sum things up perfectly