I understand that a David Horsey cartoon is going around. Here is my criticism of it, in cartoon form.
YOU THINK WE FORGOT ABOUT THIS BLOG? OH HELL NO!
We here at Traficanteria understand how hard it is to come up with cartoon ideas constantly. As such, we’ve decided to help Tom Toles out. Like any good drug, the first one is free.
Expect this to be up on Ezra Klein’s blog in a couple days with the words “Toles nails it!”
You’re welcome, Tom.
This is a drawing of Obama on a hoverboard jumping over a shark. it needs some labels and things to make it a true political cartoon.
If the Atlantic is to be believed (it’s not), then this video is prophetic (it isn’t.) Could an economy really be based on Lebron James?
Back to Ohio. The unemployment rate is well above the national average, nearly 11 percent. The state’s manufacturing base has been decimated, and those jobs aren’t coming back. And now, suddenly, the biggest star in the state — an economic engine in his own right, and a guy who probably single-handedly made Cleveland a recognizable sports mecca all over the world — has forsaken its residents. And not just forsaken them, but utterly humiliated them by forsaking them on a globally televised ESPN Special!
And that drives them into the arms of the Tea Party and the 9/12 folks. You know, that’s how these things work, because 400,000 people in a majority-minority community are all ready and raring to join people whose racial tolerance level still only says “coloreds” when their kids are around.
