84 results for "Jack Ohman"
In the California budget, I'm just an unintelligible bill...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 5:36 PMReading through some budget items - known as "trailer bills" - as we come in for a landing in the 2013 legislative session, I was struck by one very consistent theme. They're unreadable. I mean, really unreadable. One of my col...
Live blogging my editorial cartoon: You are there!
Monday, June 17, 2013 at 3:40 PMI was on vacation for a week, watching the various fascinating low, gray cloud formations Portland, Oregon has to offer, when I got an idea to live blog my political cartoon. Of course, this isn't live, and I am lying about some of it (like ...
Who's a good boy, Sutter or a cartoonist?
Friday, June 7, 2013 at 6:10 PMI was offered the opportunity to meet with someone I felt I knew rather well on Friday, even as I had never met him. Sutter, Gov. Jerry Brown's corgi. As my regular readers know, Sutter has made semi-regular appearances in my cartoon sin...
Jim Brulte's accidentally winning strategy...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 5:08 PMI drifted over to the American Association of Political Consultants 2013 Regional Conference at the Sheraton the other day. Along with everyone else in the United States, I was weaned on the elementary school version of How A Bill Becomes A Law,...
New Dunkin' Donut breakfast sandwich leaves my eyes glazed...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 5:55 PMAlthough this is precisely what the Dunkin' Donuts corporation (NYSE symbol:EKG) probably wants (free publicity, snide remarks, viral marketing), I am going to write about what I consider to be the largest harbinger of the end of American ci...
Rats! It's just a rock on Mars...maybe...
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 5:28 PMThe Mars Curiosity rover picked up an image the other day that a lot of people have speculated is that of a rat. To use a favorite astronomical phrase of the astronomer Carl Sagan, the United States has spent billions and billions on the space...
A search for the real job-killer in California's Legislature...
Friday, May 31, 2013 at 6:31 PMI noted this afternoon that the Calfornia Chamber of Commerce (R-CA) put out a list of 37 "job-killing bills," and, of that number, very few are making it past the Legislature. I'm not sure precisely what the exact definition of a ...
Bachmann to the Future: what's wrong with American politics...
Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 5:17 PMI know this is rather difficult to believe, but I had a small career in politics before I was a dashing and captivating syndicated political cartoonist for The Sacramento Bee. My career was that I used to work in Minnesota politics. Specifical...
Call me quasi-, but I think Gov. Brown is studying for the SAT Verbal section again...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 5:13 PMAs we drift toward the end of the Legislative session, I noted that Gov. Jerry Brown, (R-D-Ind-CA), in his own inimitable manner, said that he and legislative leaders were in "quasi-collaborative mode" on the budget, which is quasi-rea...
Jack Kennedy at 96: The torch is passed...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 4:29 PMJack Kennedy would have been 96 on May 29, and for people over 55 or so, that seems a bit difficult to fathom. Elected at the astoundingly young age of 43 (even at 47, Obama was at his election older than Kennedy when he died), he seems fixed ...
