Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
For those of you not following the story: For more than 100 years, a split-rail fence on the Carnegie Mellon University campus has been used by students to share promotional messages. Fraternities and sororities paint it during rush week; student organizations promote events; individual students share opinions.
Because it’s CMU, an entire arcane and byzantine set of rules governs when and how the Fence may be painted.
Ahead of a visit by President Trump, students painted the fence to say “No Rapists on Our Campus” and “Shame on You.”
CMU’s president, Farnam Jahanian, ordered university employees to go out and paint over the message.
Continue reading “He’s painted himself into a corner”Quick lunchtime cartoon.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper.
There are about 70 Rite Aid stores in the Pittsburgh area, all of which are scheduled to close (or have already closed). At one point, the company had more than 5,000 stores, but after two bankruptcies, it’s been steadily shrinking, and the end is now apparently near for all of the remaining 1,200 stores.
(For months, the stores near my home have already looked like they were out of business, with empty shelves and no stock on basic items such as Band-Aids, cotton balls and other drug store staples.)
Supposedly, there has been a lot of discussion around the country among community development officers about what to do with to do with all of the vacant Rite Aid locations that will soon be blighting small-town and neighborhood business districts.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper. The theme is the April 29 storm that knocked out power to a large section of the county — in some neighborhoods, for several days:
Incidentally, I do not see Print before it goes to … well, print. I was surprised to see that the photo on the front page, about the storm, looked so much like my cartoon. Great minds? I’ll have to ask Ann Belser, the editor, if the cartoon influenced her photo choice.
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.
They say the program works if you work the program
In America, a profound sense of betrayal is taking root. Many supporters of President Donald Trump are suffering economic distress instead of the prosperity Trump promised. Escalating tariffs and massive government layoffs are causing them to question the choices they made at the ballot box.
Betrayed Trump voters have many reasons they voted for him: They expected him to cut waste and fraud and get criminals off the streets. Some Trump voters regret believing him when he distanced himself from Project 2025.
In case you don’t understand the meme:
Dude, when you said “Democracy Dies in Darkness” we didn’t know it was your mission statement
From The Guardian (U.K.):
Jeff Bezos, the self-proclaimed “hands-off” owner of the Washington Post, emailed staffers this morning about a change he is applying to the paper’s opinion section that appears to align the newspaper more closely with the political right.
“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos said.
“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.”
Bezos’s decision to inject more regular and weighty conservative theming will also see the departure of opinions editor David Shipley, although it was immediately unclear if he was fired for resisting Bezos’s direction, or chose to resign.
Here’s this month’s “Pen Avenue,” my cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh’s East End newspaper:
Print is not available online; you can only read it in (what else?) print. It’s available at Giant Eagle and other stores in Pittsburgh’s East End, or subscribe on the website.