Duffy's Megaphone

This bit of silliness came about as a result of the vet giving my dog a collar so that he would not chew on his incision after an operation. He, the dog, also chews his feet, and the vet gave us some medicine for that. I combined the two incidents with the visual of watching Duffy, my dog, wrestle with the collar, and this Kartune was the result. By the way; the collar lasted all of about two minutes before Duffy was able to remove it. Kiss that $25 good bye.

The Obama Doctrine

Well, this is blunt; but sometimes I get tired of dancing around an issue with carefully picked descriptions. Mr. Obama socialized health care, stated that he wants to "spread around" the fruits of other people's labor, and numerous other phrases and examples that demonized private initiative, and praised the collective approach to government, and governing. So far, he has stayed just short of outright professing that he would prefer the communist form of government. Instead, as in this Kartune, he just keeps laying down single pieces to be blended later. Of course he has a right to believe as he sees fit; and since he was elected by the majority of the people, he has a right to govern as he pleases. However, I also have the right to identify and describe his belief system as I see it. Ever since McCarthyism, and later the extreme leftist movement of the 1960's it has become politically incorrect to identify anyone as a communist, regardless of how overtly they profess that doctrine. We have danced around the issue by using the word statist, and socialist, and collectivist. Well, if it has feathers, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a communist.

Big Game Gun

This is what I call my first attempt at Full Frontal Sarah. I knew Sarah Palin would be a great source of material for a long time to come; so I needed to begin practicing on her look. The mouth is not so good in this one. (of course, for progressives, her mouth is never any good). The impetus for this Kartune is from the 2010 mid-term election, wherein The Tea Party movement is having an enormous impact on the elections. Several R.I.N.O.(es) have been challenged and unseated by Tea Party candidates. R.I.N.O.(es) of course are, "Republicans In Name Only". Sarah Palin, being a maverick type of conservative politician, has been very instrumental in helping to unseat those entrenched candidates who have become so fearful of losing their job that they began to look and act like left wing democrats, or worse, Progressives, Democrat or Republican.

A Jerk Knee Reaction.

The operation was a success. Well, it was cheap; and after all, the knee did bend a full 90 degrees; reacted well when struck with a reflex hammer; the patient didn't die, or wind up with two knees on one leg. Best of all we got to put it on our government health care card, which only cost us about fifty or sixty percent of everything we earn. What could be so bad?

Hmmm. My perspective is off a bit in this drawing, but I believe it is right on in the sentiment.

Image Consultant

It's the summer of 2010. There is a weekly TV series on HBO call "True Blood". It is about vampires. Vampires also seem to be finding their way back into some movies, and kids venues, so I thought a Kartoon on the topic was in order. Of course with the vampire craze on the rise, so to speak, I guess this fellow did not even need to worry about his image. He is finally in vogue. So much for this bit of silliness.

Going My Way ?

This came about in the summer of 2010 as a result of the government (Obama administration) to discontinue space exploration. Mr. Obama instructed his newly appointed head of NASA, that his primary goal should be to "help the Muslim nations feel better about themselves" and their contributions to math and science. No, seriously, that is what the NASA administrator said in an interview given to Al Jazeera. One has to admit. that is an odd primary task for the world's premier space agency. Aside from that, someone in government decided that we could get into space by catching a ride with some other countries that are going there.

Show and Tell

This is fifty plus days into the British Petroleum oil leak that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion appears to be 100% BP's fault, however, the inept response by the Obama administration to contain/remove the subsequent damage to our environment was a major cause of damage to our environment, and our ecomomy. I am using inept as a "benifit of the doubt" descriptive term. I am not 100% convinced that this leak was not allowed to become a castrophe for political and idealogical reasons. In the words of Rham Emanual; "Never let a good crisis go to waste". Right!, but I'm the cynic.

Clogged Arteries.

This unlikely subject combination came about due to proximity in time. The two topics really had nothing to do with each other. Congress had recently passed President Obama's monstosity of a health care bill, (a couple thousand pages)without even reading it; then there was an explosion of a British Petroleum platform which killed nine workers, and caused a gigantic leak from an oil pipe which was located 5,000 feet deep in the ocean. The "leak" was discharging thousands of gallons of oil per day into the ocean, while scientists tried to figure out a way to stop the flow. Combine those two incidents with a rainy monday and a cancelled golf game, and this Kartune is the result.

Ignorance and Apathy

This is a tribute to my friend Paul, whom I worked with for fifteen years. He loved to tell this joke; so I decided to assign it to a setting.

Reality TV

Well, it's not the Nobel prize, however, this one was actually earned.

Practice Makes Perfect

This one is just poking some fun at Tiger.

Ten Items or fewer

This is one of those petty things that shouldn't bother me, but it does. (Well, "did" actually; now that I have completed a "Kartune" 0n the topic, I feel much better. :) "Kartuning" is my personal form of therapy. No, I didn't actually see this happen, but I wish I had.

Reststop

I guess I could have done a yellow snow Kartune here, or maybe some commentary on the 23.5 inches of global warming that fell on Philadelphia last week. Hmmm. Maybe the globe is warming because of all those blankets.... of snow.

Duffy's Yoga Postures

Did you ever notice how instinctively dogs stretch? We need to pay more attention to them. They have great instincts about individuals, and about what is good for their own well being, ...well, except maybe for that car chasng thing.

The Teacher Shall Appear

Part of an ongoing Yoga theme. I just think Yoga, (aside from being an excellent form of exercise), provides a lot of humorous moments. I keep promising myself that I will, "take it up", but, alas, I haven't yet.

Competitive Yoga

I guess the musician decided to take five. If this looks different to you from a previous visit, you are correct, and you get one point for excellent observation. I revised the drawing a bit, by changing the wall slightly,...ok, a lot, and I added some detail and shading.

No Tipping Please

Like a lot of people, I have heard of cow tipping. I just wonder if it's an urban myth, or I guess in this case, a rural myth.

Ferrari Dealership

This is a second option for the homework assignment wherein we were given a piece of dialogue, and told to produce a gag to go with it. (The first submission was the Kartune entitled, "Woodstock Pharmacy").

Woodstock Pharmacy

This Kartune was a class assignment from an instructor I had named George Pieper. Each student was given a piece of dialogue, and told to create a "gag" to fit it. I came up with this and the Kartune entitled, Ferrari, for this assignment. The piece of dialogue I received was, "You can take three of these a day, or take this baby and drive that virus to kingdom come."