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Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow looks back at 2005: part 1 and part 2. He also has a parable of recent American history.

From an email message: Connecticut apologizes.

With thanks to Colorado Jyms, here’s Will Ferrell as George W. Bush, explaining global warming.

From a leftover political ad, here’s Will Ferrell again, as George W. Bush down on the farm.

I’ve linked to this before, but it’s funny enough to watch again: the George W. Bush biopic, Dubya, the Movie.

Finally, a consummation devoutly to be wished:

There are lots more Bush pictures here. Most are pretty disrespectful, which is the only way I’d have it.

Cartoonist Mark Fiore brings us Get Smarter, with “Agent Dubya, smarter than any old law.”

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling uncovers the secret origin of Judge John Roberts. (Click to get a “site pass.” After you see an advertisement, you’ll have full access to the site for one day.)

• Episode 1: Infant Strict Constructionist
• Episode 2: Education of a Conservative

Cartoonist Ward Sutton looks behind the smile.

Cartoonist Mark Fiore has an animation called Whoopsi Gras, about the comedy of errors that, in the end, wasn’t funny at all.

Animated political thriller from Mark Fiore: Double Super-Secret Background.

You will believe a man can lie.

Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow presents The Republican Guide to Successful Supreme Court Nominations. (Rated ‘R’ for strong language.)

Cartoonist Mark Fiore explains what Iraq needs before U.S. troops can come home.

Tom Tomorrow has it wrong, I think — Superman isn’t working for Halliburton. He seems to be undercutting them on price. This is not going to sit well with Dick Cheney.

If Watergate taught us anything, it’s that the system works.

Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter imagines how Watergate would play out today:

Those of us who hoped it would end differently knew we were in trouble when former Nixon media adviser Roger Ailes banned the word “Watergate” from Fox News’s coverage and went with the logo “Assault on the Presidency” instead. By that time, the American people figured both sides were just spinning, and a tie always goes to the incumbent.

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Just as in the Valerie Plame case, the Justice Department subpoenaed Woodward and Bernstein to testify before the grand jury about their sources. When they declined, they were jailed for 18 months on contempt charges.

Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow does the Time Warp, and Ward Sutton looks at Woodward and Bernstein, the Next Generation.

Well, heck. I’m just about positive this system used to work.

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling on The Nuclear Option.

As before, you’ll probably have to look at an ad to get access to the site. Click for a Site Pass. After you’ve endured the ad, you can browse the entire site all day without facing additional ads of that type. While you’re there, you might as well look around.

Bolling and Tom Tomorrow are shedding light on creationist revision of science.

Tom Tomorrow exposes a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. He says Republicans Believe the Darnedest Things. He’s got artistic range, too. He can do film noir.

Salon.com isn’t all funnies. Here’s their primer on the nuclear option:

Unless somebody blinks first, we’re in for a mind-warping set of unprecedented Senate maneuvers that could put Dick Cheney in charge of deeming the filibuster “unconstitutional” — without a word from those folks in black robes across the street — and grease the way for each and every right-wing extremist George W. Bush ever cares to put on a district court, an appellate court or the U.S. Supreme Court.

This is a fairly old story, from earlier this month: Ken Tomlinson, Republican Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, reportedly told PBS officials to make sure their programming reflected the Republican mandate.

He hasn’t denied that he said it, but says he was kidding! Sheesh, can’t you take a joke?

Gosh, I suppose I should lighten up. So here’s a cartoon from Mark Fiore, introducing the new PBS.

During World War II, we had rationing, scrap metal drives, housewives working in defense factories. Soldiers faced death on the front lines, but every American was expected to make some sacrifices to help the war effort.

We’ve made a lot of progress since those days. Now the president can ship our boys and girls in uniform off to fight and die whenever and wherever he wants to. The American people — well, except for the boys and girls in uniform, of course — can sleep easy, knowing they will never be asked to make any sacrifices for the war effort.

So, how dare
Ward Sutton suggest that home-front patriots who have already gone above and beyond the call of duty should do even more?

More good stuff by cartoonist Ruben Bolling. Same deal as before: you can click to get free access after viewing a short ad. Watch the ad once, and you can access any of the cartoons for the rest of the day.

Meet the Regulators, a crack squad of specialists handpicked by President Bush to regulate industry for the public good.

In 2002, a Wall Street Journal editorial complained that people who make $12,000 a year or less pay “a little less than 4 percent of income in taxes” and called them “lucky duckies.” (Really!) Now, the administration wants to rescue Social Security for Lucky Ducky.

Judge Scalia in “Kids These Days.”

Judge Scalia walks a lonely path across the American states, meting out justice.

Cartoonist Ruben Bolling on President Bush’s Culture of Life Blowout Sale.

(The cartoon is easy to see if you’re a paid subscriber to Salon.com. If not, you can click for a “Day Pass,” which will show you an ad, then give you access to the Salon site.)

The great Will Eisner, creator of “The Spirit” and long-time advocate of comic books as a real art form, has died.

I met him once. I said I’d wanted to meet him ever since I’d discovered The Spirit in a reprint book in the mid-1960s. He said, “Why didn’t you send me a letter?”

Good-bye, Will. I’m glad you were here.