TMW on 'The War on Christmas' (2015 Version)

What other cartoonist is going to give you both 'Hail Satan!' & 'adrift in a godless universe devoid of purpose or meaning' ?

Tom/Dan has some nice merch. available at his site if you're looking for a unique gift.

TMW: Wash, Rinse, Repeat

The fact that we never learn from our mistakes must make cartoonists' lives that much easier...and that much more dull.

TMW on the Recent Upheaval in the Glox Market

And to think, they told Tom Tomorrow that people would be put off by all the words in his cartoons.  This must come across as utter gibberish to first time readers.

Hmm, wonder if Invisible-Tentacle-of-the-Unhindered-Exchange Glox will ever show up in TMW in his its own right...The mind boggles.

TMW: Things Donald Trump Could Do to Look Even More Presidential

I have nothing constructive to say about the apparent force of nature that is one silver-spooned elitist in terms of the Republican primaries.  Tom Tomorrow is far more imaginative than I.

TMW on our Climate Insanity

Sadly, a fairly accurate description of our political insanity in actual reality.  Here's the direct link to Tom/Dan's Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomorrow/25-years-of-tomorrow, which ends in just under two weeks.

TMW: Sparky in Hell

Hmm.  Sparky's always been a sort of alter-ego for Tom/Dan, but don't think I've ever seen the character speak so directly for/as the cartoonist before.

AlterNet Revisits the Legacy of Bill Clinton

15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World 

Bill Clinton remains one of America’s most popular presidents. A national poll last March by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found 56 percent of Americans had a clearly favorable view of Clinton.

...for more than a year before Hillary Clinton launched her latest presidential campaign, Bill Clinton has been selectively telling media outlets that he made some mistakes as president and might have acted otherwise. He's even tried to recast actual events and been taken to task by fact-checkers who recall his leading role in what became major crises, such as the 2008 global financial implosion.

What follows are 15 ways Bill Clinton’s presidency did not serve America or the world, and in many ways deepened and perpetuated the problems we face today. This article was prepared by AlterNet staff members Janet Allon, Michael Arria, Jan Frel, Tana Ganeva, Kali Holloway, Zaid Jilani, Adam Johnson, Steven Rosenfeld, Phillip Smith, Terrell Jermaine Starr and Carrie Weissman.

1. Prison-loving president. In May, on the heels of the unrest in Baltimore sparked by Freddie Gray’s death in police custody, Clinton apologized for locking too many people up. Thanks, Bill.

The 2.4 million people in prison and the 160,000 Americans serving life in prison largely because of his policies might be excused for not accepting Clinton's apology. Tag-teaming with ex-President Ronald Reagan, Clinton is the president most responsible for the mass incarceration of Americans on an epic scale. The gung-ho crime fighter-in-chief passed the single most damaging law with his omnibus federal crime bill in 1994, which included the infamous “three strikes” law (three felony convictions means a life sentence) and ensured that mandatory minimum sentences imprisoned even low-level, non-violent offenders for a long, long time.
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And the list carries on, all the way from 'Welfare-reform' to war: Always useful to revisit history, given that some in the electorate are too young to remember it, and given how selective and unreliable our memories tend to be.  Clinton may have run as a liberal*, but he certainly didn't govern as one as this piece reminds us.

Although yes, to be fair**, we should really judge Hillary on the basis of her own accomplishments, since she started a political career by parachuting into a safe Senate-seat in New York.  Unfortunately, I can't think of any.


* See ?  Selective Memory-Syndrome strikes again.

** Because that whole 'co-president' thing never happened, and it's not as if nostalgia for the 'nineties is the primary appeal of Hillary's bid for the presidency.