Putting things in perspective

Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star cartoonist Clay Jones nails this one, and reminds us that there are far bigger things than what we're usually pissing and moaning about or discussing around the water cooler.

Clay's a friend of mine, and we spar off and on over our divergent political views, but he's often spot-on with his observations.

Hokey-pokey

Clay Jones, the editorial cartoonist at our local paper The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, runs a weekly caption contest in which he supplies a cartoon with an empty word balloon and readers submit caption suggestions. Readers vote on the top four or five entries, and the winner receives the completed original. This was my third winning entry this year.

Incidentally, Clay is also lead guitarist and front man for the local rock/punk/post-grunge/garage band Corporate T-shirt. Their debut album No Thanks To Hancock is available for purchase at the link. It rocks righteously and if you don't get it, you're a Commie. It's rumored that chicks swoon over him, but I've yet to see it for myself.

A war on three fronts

The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star's Clay Jones gets in a poke at Obama's ill-considered war on Fox News with this cartoon. Clay's a friend of mine and a I know his political sentiments lie to the left of mine, but he's, er, fair and balanced in his observations.

Is it possible that Obama is even more Nixonian than Nixon?

Caroline Kennedy's Schoolhouse Rock

Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star cartoonist Clay Jones ran this 'toon in last Sunday's paper, and I just about busted a gut when I saw it.

A bit of background may be in order for those unfamiliar with the "I'm just a bill" reference. Back in the 1970s, ABC started a series of educational cartoon shorts called "Schoolhouse Rock" during the Saturday morning cartoons. This one outlined the legislative process: