Tagged as: Trudy

December 25, 1975* — Older Strips # — Special Materials

David Horsey celebrates the centennial of our National Parks by pointing out their neglect, which not only limits that celebration but, more critically, forces moderation in defending them against the champions of free market exploitation.As he notes in his essay, while budget constraints are an indicator of how strong the privatization and exploitation forces are in lobbying to undermine […]

Mike Thompson on the FCC’s announced intention of giving Comcast and its brethren the right to accept bribes to stifle any competition to Netflix, Amazon Premium, Skype and other large, well-established streamers.For those who have not heard, or whose eyes roll up when the geeks start talking about “net neutrality,” the basic story is in […]

50 years ago yesterday …If you missed yesterday’s posting, you may want to scroll down for the cartoons from April 13, 1914 and 1939. Meanwhile, here’s a selection from 1964. You may recall that this whole nostalgia thing began with my poking around for Civil Rights Act coverage. As it happens, this John Milt Morris cartoon […]

Nick Anderson comments on the NIMBY aspects of free-market capitalism in general and explosions in fertilizer plants specifically.One comment I read — and, yes, I know, the only people more foolish than the people who post those comments are the people who read them* — said that, well, they built this plant years ago and […]

It’s Shark Week, and, in one of comicdom’s great annual unilateral crossovers, Sherman has a starring role.Sherman’s Lagoon is one of my favorite sources for the Bob Newhart-style humor I enjoy, but Jim Toomey (whom I interviewed some years ago) is also a genuine aficianado of ocean life and manages to use his strip from […]