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Cartoon Tuesday: It’s (Not) Funny Because It’s True
By Brad Aaron |
This AM New York cartoon, currently making the rounds on e-mail, was surely a ridiculous exaggeration when first published in 2004. But it’s not as far off the mark today. As the Times reports, Florida is the latest state to start giving away free "gas for life" as a lottery prize. And though the jackpot, […]
Cartoon Tuesday: The Modern-Day Midnight Ride
By Ben Fried |
Paul Revere embarked on his midnight ride from Boston to Lexington more than a year before the United States declared independence. Nevertheless, with the Fourth of July around the corner, this toon from Tom Toles seemed appropriate today.
Cartoon Tuesday: Little Green Man and the Lizard Squeezins
By Brad Aaron |
Sometimes it takes an outsider’s perspective to see things clearly. So what would an extra-terrestrial think of humankind’s dependence on fossil fuels? In light of the devastation being unleashed off the shores of the Gulf states, cartoonist and recent Pulitzer recipient Mark Fiore files this brilliant summation of the absurdly self-destructive lengths we earthlings go […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Chutes and Ladders, State DOT Style
By Ben Fried |
Via Steven Higashide at Mobilizing the Region: A board game? An unusually colorful circuit board? Could it be contemporary art? Perhaps the four sets of people represent humanity, dwarfed by the boxes and arrows which symbolize the harrowing complexity of modern life. Actually, this is a real diagram from the NYSDOT Division of Engineering’s Project […]
Cartoon Tuesday: Jump the Gates or Dump the Stooges?
By Brad Aaron |
From the cutting-off-one’s-nose-to-spite-one’s-face department comes this nonetheless impressive song and video excoriating the MTA (a.k.a. "Money-Taking Assholes") and calling on transit riders to "start jumping the gates." But there’s more to the message than misguided MTA bashing, as "the fuck-ups in Albany" — Ruben Diaz, Sr., Pedro Espada and Carl Kruger, specifically — get their […]
Today’s Headlines
By Brad Aaron |
Yahoo News Examines U.S. Adaptations of Vision Zero Truck Driver Kills Pedestrian Elliot Mintzer, 67, in Forest Hills Supermarket Parking Lot (DNA, TL) MTA Board Approves TWU Contract (Crain’s); Prendergast: Next SAS Phase Uncertain (AMNY) Alicia Glen: De Blasio Will Reveal Midtown East Rezoning Timeline in June (Crain’s) EDC Proposes Massive Storm-Resistant Development in East River […]