Hating Hate Crimes Bill
The house recently passed a hate crimes bill. If you are unlucky enough to get killed by a mugger and he gets caught, he’ll merely be punished for your murder. But if you hit the jackpot and get murdered because you are gay, your killer will be not only be punished for your murder, he’ll also get punished because he didn’t like the fact that you were gay.
In other words he’ll be punished for his unpleasant thoughts. For Nat Hentoff ‘s thoughts on this, please go here.
Health Insurance Debtor’s Prison
The Senate Finance Committee passed a health care bill yesterday.
Meanwhile, I’m leaving with 9 other cartoonists tomorrow on a USO trip to visit wounded troops and draw cartoons. I plan to blog about it while we are there. Here’s a pdf of the press-release.
Throw It Back!
This morning I was drawing a cartoon about the cheap dollar until I saw that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Then I decided to draw a cartoon about cheap Peace Prizes.
After watching the Obama sketch from last week’s Saturday Night Live, fact checked by CNN, we can all agree that this is a prize for Nothing. Seinfeld should not take this lying down.
Or as Lewis Carroll might say, “prize first, peace later”.
Men In The White Coats Called to White House
I was surprised to see all the doctors show up at the White House photo op wearing lab coats. After all, jocks don’t wear jockstraps to the White House. Why would the docs be suited up in working gear? Because they were told to. And Obama staff members passed out white coats to the ones who didn’t get the memo.
