This Week’s Cartoon: “Takin’ One For the Team”
Little-noticed last week amidst the hubbub surrounding airport security machines was the torpedoing of the Paycheck Fairness Act at the hands of Senate Republicans. The fact that it took me some...
View ArticleThis Week’s Cartoon: “Welcome to Ball-Mart”
I’m sensing a distinct lack of outrage over the Wal-Mart sex discrimination ruling, probably because it’s more complicated an issue than a politician tweeting boner pics. In a nutshell (er, no pun...
View ArticleThis Week’s Cartoon: Daddyshack
As upsetting as the “War on Women 2012″ has been, I managed to keep my cool, I think, until last week or so. But at some point between the Masters Tournament at creepy Augusta National and the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Cartoon: The Universal Laws of Ladies in Science
Inside Higher Ed has more on the Yale study: Female scientists were as likely as male scientists to evaluate the students this way. For instance, the scientists were asked to rate the students’...
View ArticleNew Abortion Laws
The fetal heartbeat bill passed in North Dakota might not survive a legal challenge, but other radical laws may have the effect of shutting down the state’s lone abortion clinic. So, poor desperate...
View ArticleAn Ugly Decision
The Trayvon Martin decision was announced just a bit too late for my deadline this week. As it turned out, I was already working on a cartoon about a different court case — less tragic, but similarly...
View ArticleHandy Chart: Janet Yellen vs. Larry Summers
Ridiculously condescending comments have been made about Janet Yellen — that she lacks “gravitas,” or that choosing her to lead the Federal Reserve would be a decision “driven by gender.” But it’s a...
View ArticleChange the Brogram
A dust-up has been ensuing in the tech community over various tweets and statements made by the now-former Chief Technology Officer at Business Insider, Pax Dickinson. To make a long story short,...
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Hangin’ with the Fed
I was happy to learn this week that Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first female Fed Chair in U.S. history. One of the highlights of last year for me was getting to meet Yellen in person. I was...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Checks
The Paycheck Fairness Act, recently torpedoed in the Senate, addressed some glaring problems that have generated less discussion than they should. This useful post (“Why Do Bosses Want Their Employees’...
View ArticleExclusive dining in the Ivy League
Buried amidst discussion of another campus scandal last week was this mind-boggling report from the New York Times about a Princeton University eating club. The Tiger Inn, it turns out, didn’t admit...
View Article“The Late-Night TV Circus”
In the past year, we’ve seen a changing of the guard (or planned change) on The Tonight Show, NBC’s Late Night, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Colbert...
View ArticleHow to be a Republican “Feminist”
Try making sense of Carly Fiorina’s headache-inducing manifesto “Redefining Feminism” on Medium. A feminist, according to Fiorina, is a woman who lives the life she chooses. Yet she argues that...
View ArticleUnequal exposure: Sexy show names for male comedians
When I learned the name of Daily Show alum Samantha Bee’s new show recently, my heart sank a little. “Full Frontal?” Really? Here’s my theory about why prominent comedy shows hosted by women have...
View ArticleHow not to be a sexist jerk this election season
I swore I wasn’t going to do an election strip this week, but the alternative was a comic about excessive amounts of cellulose filler found in cans of grated Parmesan cheese. You can guess how well...
View ArticleNorth Carolina’s anti-trans bathroom law stinks
Seems like the GOP wastes an awful lot of time and money creating solutions to problems that don’t exist. Voter ID laws are one example. North Carolina’s recent anti-LGBT law concerning public...
View ArticlePlaying the Woman Card
My husband actually spotted a bumper sticker saying “Trump that bitch” the other day. Nice to see people keepin’ it classy. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Trump accused Hillary of playing the...
View ArticleGhost Bluster
The backlash goes all the way to the top: even Donald Trump has weighed in with exactly the sentiments you would imagine. Like the director and cast members, I can’t believe we’re even still having...
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