Republican correspondence

December 26, 2012

Chairman Shortridge bids a fond adieu

My order’s bigger than your order!

December 23, 2012

Judge against Judge!

Bigots hold confab!

December 20, 2012

Well, what do we do now?

Sigmund Spot’s newest patient (reprise) II

December 19, 2012

Tom Hackbarth sees Sigmund Spot about his issues

Sigmund Spot’s newest patient (reprise)

December 18, 2012

Tom Hackbarth sees Sigmund about his issues

“Guns Don’t Kill People”: Means Matter Revisited

December 17, 2012

In one way, they’re right:  guns alone don’t kill people. Our fantasies about guns kill people. Americans love the way guns make them feel:  powerful, secure, and in control. We have transferred these qualities onto our totem object, the gun. If we own a gun, the thinking goes, we can fend off criminals who might […]

Killing James Dean

December 17, 2012

the battle against gun violence will turn on marketing, not laws

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls

December 16, 2012

It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola

A Spotty ™ winner on gun control

December 15, 2012

Donald Bronsky’s brilliant and bitter letter to the editor in Saturday’s Strib wins a Spotty™. It is vital to remember that now is not the time to be discussing anything resembling tighter gun-control legislation. It is far too early, and emotions are running too deeply, to discuss anything that would even begin to limit the number of […]

Because shoulder-fired rockets don’t shoot down airplanes (reprise)

December 15, 2012

People do!

Dave Senjem: “We need some cement around our heels”

December 13, 2012

Dave and Luca sleep with the fishes

What if you created a half a billion in debt

December 9, 2012

But nobody owed it?