About that out-dated Bush-crushing banner...

By the way, a couple of folks (actually, mostly just Masheka) have needled me about the out-datedness of the banner on this here website (and the illo on my business card), being that it features an ex-president. I totally plan to change it at some point soon, I swear.

At WAM! in Cambridge this weekend

This weekend I'll be at the amazing annual Women, Action & the Media! conference hosted by the Center for New Words at MIT's Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I don't have new books to sell, but if you're going you can always just say hello or buy a signed copy of my first book! Jen Sorensen will also be in attendance. As always it should be good feminist fun (plus lots of strategizing over the catastrophic collapse of print media that seems to be underway).

Toon: Jane Reaction

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Toon: The Florists' Rights Movement!

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"Back off lesbos—you're getting gay germs on my gardenias!"

Seriously, this story is FOR REAL. There was a more in-depth piece in the Hartford Courant online, but it seems to be unavailable now, all I can still find is this editorial response.

Toon: Transcendental

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Good kitty news!

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, the last few months have been very hard pet-wise for Masheka and I, as we saw our little cat Riley wasting away to almost nothing. In a very short time he dropped from a normal 11 pounds to a worrisome 7 pounds, and a few weeks ago, to only 4 pounds. Further, he was diagnosed with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis), which is incurable and fatal.

BUT! Our vet did some more detailed and fancy tests, and they all came back negative for FIP. AND after a few weeks on antibiotics, little Riley suddenly started eating like an adorable furry little piggy, and running around and causing trouble like his old self. AND he gained a whole half of a pound in just two weeks!

I don't want to be overly optimistic--he could relapse--but I'm just thrilled to see him behaving like his old trouble-making self again.

By the way, the above photo shows him little Riley at his almost-skinniest, sitting in front of a gorgeous painting that was a wedding gift to us from our amazing painter friend Cindy Procious, based off a photo by our also-amazing photographer friend Márta Fodor.

Thanks again to everyone who commented on my previous kitty post, too!

Toon: Possible Positive Economic Side Effect #7

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I read the other day that some governors are thinking of discontinuing the death penalty. Some are against it for moral reasons, but some weren't concerned that it's barbaric, or cruel and unusual, or just plain wrong--they just want to save money. Does that mean they'll plug the chair back in when the economy improves?

I also hear that California may finally do something smart about its criminally overcrowded prison system, and find ways to let nonviolent offenders go. Those three strikes laws don't seem like such a good idea now, huh?

Toon: Hard Times for Haters

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This is a local Massachusetts cartoon about how the hate group MassResistance is struggling to find bill sponsors.

Of course, LGBT organizations are also struggling to find funding in this economic mess. But still, it's hard not to smile when the haters fall on hard times!

Toon: Victims of Gay Rage!

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I am SO sick of those stupid stories. Where's my tiny, tiny violin?

Toon: Poverty Wages

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I'm catching up on ye old cartoon posting, this is the first of five...