I love political cartoons. They’re funny, sly and subversive. They question authority, draw attention to corruption and highlight social ills. A good cartoon cuts through all of the bullshit straight to the heart of an issue. The right image can be be more effective than the longest, wordiest rant. Its therefore a form that’s ideally suited to our attention deficit age. They’re irreverent and poke fun at our rulers, of course, but our political system is pretty much surreal comedy anyway. I don’t own these images but I enjoy them. I hope you do too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My other Tumblr blog is Elle Dark. Wordiness, political mutterings, bad ‘pomes’ and other bits of flotsam from the wrong side of midnight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AND ANOTHER THING DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TAG INDEX var sc_project=7610738; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="280960c4"; Tumblr (3.0; @cartoonpolitics)http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7f5e4c34288d1da1c83f4e969612ba29/tumblr_mn0iabKJ411r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>when singer Melissa Etheridge was battling cancer Republican star Michele Bachmann suggested that .<em>.“this may be an opportunity for her to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”  </em>Ms Bachmann also called being gay<em> ‘part of Satan’ </em>and added  later<em> “If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.”</em></p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50756755237http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50756755237Sat, 18 May 2013 16:58:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsrepublican<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0b536dea95b507879b47ecd5c07f8a69/tumblr_mn0ha2puXV1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50755147809http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50755147809Sat, 18 May 2013 16:37:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsrepublican<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f047a62fe5333b6852c1f32ad4959f89/tumblr_mmyhv0Ho751r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50666658663http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50666658663Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:36 -0400cartoonpoliticsmilitary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f724db889db111834b04806596583fec/tumblr_mm8g59AcDl1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50607205357http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50607205357Thu, 16 May 2013 18:43:21 -0400cartoonpolitics<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/88ea9e20356a5c3b3c1a1b147ba14f60/tumblr_mmwvrtWkq31r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ..<em> (any Fox News reporter ).. (or it might have been the White Queen in Lewis Carrolls’s ‘Through the Looking Glass</em></span><span><em><span></span>)</em><br/></span></p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50604086781http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50604086781Thu, 16 May 2013 17:59:52 -0400cartoonpoliticsrepublican<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/726f64aa3075c0f5b5db766efb05422e/tumblr_mmubnwzUIv1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.” <em>~ Albert Einstein</em></span></p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50493088278http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50493088278Wed, 15 May 2013 09:01:42 -0400cartoonpoliticseducation<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f6215ca092bc0a85493bac64d2b33423/tumblr_mmnh5hhBnw1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50493478272http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50493478272Wed, 15 May 2013 09:00:47 -0400cartoonpoliticsamerica<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f2f3fa5b678719f96d00912630b48ea7/tumblr_mmrbux9Osc1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50370322789http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50370322789Wed, 15 May 2013 08:43:22 -0400cartoonpolitics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/721fa431e3f603bc91e8525298661bd8/tumblr_mmspq2TXdI1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50425042432http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50425042432Tue, 14 May 2013 11:58:50 -0400cartoonpolitics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5468a15da5b5f56f632c9aebd7dfdca2/tumblr_mmray7EDRd1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>coming soon to a street near you .. and me  ..</p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50368830047http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50368830047Mon, 13 May 2013 17:42:07 -0400cartoonpolitics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4f29b696a334482f02ca1c6a3be1ef00/tumblr_mmra9crHVf1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50367677723http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50367677723Mon, 13 May 2013 17:27:13 -0400cartoonpoliticscapitalism<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/96a1ce122114670c2f2503849a60e2d1/tumblr_mmndpkWhwE1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50367371285http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50367371285Mon, 13 May 2013 17:23:12 -0400cartoonpoliticseducation<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d72dc16a758232003ac0471291a91ab9/tumblr_mmp3aqm1zL1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/john-wight/stephen-hawking-joins-a-g_b_3243456.html" target="_blank">references</a> Stephen Hawking, world-famous theoretical physicist, recently adding his support to the international campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians</p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50269276988http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50269276988Sun, 12 May 2013 13:02:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsPalestineIsrael<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c4d31a34567897002e242302d11f90c0/tumblr_mmlh9piaMP1r55d2io1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50267679994http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50267679994Sun, 12 May 2013 12:40:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsmilitary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4477625c850749ff80af193014c1a24/tumblr_mmfhnxw8671r55d2io1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50185990060http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50185990060Sat, 11 May 2013 15:02:11 -0400cartoonpoliticsgun-control<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e01ef0440324cfd0ba0d76d89cb055ed/tumblr_mmlgm7Uk0L1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hospital-billing-varies-wildly-government-040107840.html" target="_blank">wild variations</a> of  treatment costs in the USA’s ‘healthcare’ system ..( also of note,  <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/economy/2013/03/60-of-us-bankruptcies-due-to-medical-bills-while-78-of-those-bankruptcies-have-insurance-coverage-2500492.html" target="_blank">60% of US bankruptcies are due to medical costs)</a></p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50100291059http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50100291059Fri, 10 May 2013 13:58:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsHealthcare<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ab8f4061358328fa727fd732013b6458/tumblr_mmlfshnbvo1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>sexual assaults in the military - <em>‘abuse and a culture of impunity persist. It is time for fundamental change</em>’ .. (<a href="http://%20abuse%20and%20a%20culture%20of%20impunity%20persist.%20It%20is%20time%20for%20fundamental%20change" target="_blank">from this article</a>)</p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50099370129http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50099370129Fri, 10 May 2013 13:41:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsmilitary<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/46f489d77c7fb2fe28a8469d733a0b94/tumblr_mmlfarnqGS1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The staggering <strong><em>$1 Trillion</em></strong> student debt may be damaging the economy as in-debt graduates have less to spend .. (<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100723709" target="_blank">article here</a>)</p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50098818242http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50098818242Fri, 10 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400cartoonpoliticseducation<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9686aaf32458e4f13517d022a4bdf9dc/tumblr_mmjgizYMHl1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>although increasing numbers of both women and men are victims of sexual assault in the military women are .. <em>’ now more likely to be raped by fellow soldiers than they are to be killed in combat’ .. (<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/the-invisible-war_b_1205741.html" target="_blank">interesting article here</a>)</em></p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50035902282http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50035902282Thu, 09 May 2013 17:06:00 -0400cartoonpoliticsmilitary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/68441011b51b35abaeffa8a4b684e106/tumblr_mmjg2raj3x1r55d2io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>or Texas ? ..</p>http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50017265089http://cartoonpolitics.tumblr.com/post/50017265089Thu, 09 May 2013 11:52:00 -0400cartoonpolitics