Ronald McDonald eats horses

Originally to accompany an opinions article about the food industry. appearing later tonight on kaleo.org. Link to follow soon.

Uncle Sam Eats Babies

Originally to accompany an opinions article about the poverty gap in America that will appear on kaleo.org Thursday night. Link to follow soon.

John Boehner's Original Tea Party Recipe

I guess it's pretty obvious by now that I don't care for Boehner. Here's how he and the republican leadership created a monster they can no longer control: the Tea Party.

Obesity ruins armed forces recruitment

"An ever-growing portion of America's 17 to 24 year-olds, about 75 percent, is simply ineligible or unavailable to serve for a variety of reasons, above all, health and weight requirements in an age of spiraling childhood obesity."


- Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, United States of America

The Puppet Master and his Toy - also, an article for your perusal

Caught in the quagmire: the life and times of a despondent democrat

The hazy fun of summer is a great recipe for forgetting what happened in the 1st Congressional District last semester, but if you think back hard enough, the picture should come in to focus.

The Democrats, divided between Democratic Party-bred Colleen Hanabusa, and the more centrist, independent Ed Case, managed to defeat themselves in a special election, and let Republican Charles Djou waltz right into the position.

Tomorrow, the Democrats, with help of their constituents, have another chance to defeat Djou in the general election. All we have to do is check the little box next to ‘Hanabusa.' But should we?

Mm'kay?

Took me awhile to upload this one, but it's finally here!

The Associated Students of the University of Hawaii (ASUH) voted down the chancellor's proposed athletic fee last semester.

The chancellor has decided to put the matter before the Board of Regents (BOR), completely disregarding that previous ASUH vote.

The Rape of Higher Education in Hawaii

Peter Paul Rubens would roll over in his grave.

1) Please see: "The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus"
2) Go find out what the politicians are proposing to do to UH Manoa.  
3) Weep.
4) ???
5) Profit.

Limbaugh-the-Hut

UHPA Rejects LBFO

The University of Hawai'i Professional Assembly voted to reject the "Last, Best, Final Offer" proposed by the UH administration by over 80% of the vote.  Greenwood wrote an email to he assembly in which she voiced her "disappointed" opinion.  Not only was this the first offer given to faculty members, but it certainly is not the best offer.

Chain, Chain, Chaaaain...

The Moderates

The Patriots

Glenn "Slanderson" Beck, Rush "I Hate You" Limbaugh and Michelle "The Parrot" Malkin give their heinously hypocritical view-points on the recent Olympic Games bid.

Send in the Clowns

OMG, this comic, like, totally hasn't even been published yet, which means it's like extra rare, or valuable or something.

What it really means is that I've officially caught up the site to the present tense and will no longer be typing about how I felt and stuff, but about how I feel... man.

By the way: the Congressmen represented are (Clockwise from top-middle) Harry Reid (D), Kent Conrad (D), Barney Frank (D), John Kerry (D), Chris Dodd (D), John Boehner (R), John Cornyn (R), Mitch McConell (R) and last but not least, Joe Wilson (R).

Priorities

McMackin is the UH football team's Head Coach, who, besides being somewhat of a blatant homophobe, is also the highest paid state employee in a state that is requiring state employees to endure furlows that will amount to around a 15% pay-cut.

And yes, I know that I misspelled "Maintenance" on the third sign; I got plenty of comments when it was printed.  See next entry for a response to this issue.

A Grim Situation

Retrenchment: A vertical reorganization and restructuring of University programs.  Vertical meaning that an entire unit could be wiped out, versus a little bit from everywhere (horizontal).  If you need that unit to graduate then you sir, are in trouble.

It may be necessary, given our economic situation (which is certainly, specifically, not any one person's fault (more like a general incompetency and lethargy), but that doesn't mean that it don't stink.

Shooting Yourself in the Foot

As if shouting wasn't enough; now we have to bring assault riffles to town hall meetings?  To what, exercise our right to be immature jack-asses?

Just because you can do something, doesn't make it a good idea. You can light your farts on fire, but when you burn your ass, don't complain about it...

Zippity-Doo-Dah!

The Chancellor of UH Manoa; off in her own world while the shit hits the fan right under her nose...

Edit (April 30th, 2010): This comic won first place in the Board of Publications Excellence in Journalism Award for the 2009-2010 academic year in the Editorial Cartoons category.

"You who were once a proud and admirable party..."

Can we have a real debate about this, or is shouting the only way we can communicate about our feelings on the issue?

The insurance companies own the GOP congressmen and put pressure on them to fight reform at any cost.  Because they know it's wrong, the GOP can think of only one way to fulfill their masters' wishes, and that is to feed lies to their constituents; playing off their fear, ignorance etc. "Death-panels?"  For God's sake, what the hell were they thinking?

It must be tiring to have that evil monkey on your back, GOP. Shrug it off. Do what you know is right, as a human being, not as a politician.

Heads We Win, Tails You Lose

So this comic is a bit dated. It was published over the summer, but I've just now gotten around to posting it.

From the Horse's Mouth

This cartoon was published way back in late February of 2009.  It pertains to our Governor once again trying to do whatever the hell she wants to.
In this case, she wanted the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling made by Hawaiian courts blocking her from selling ceded (or formerly Royal) lands to developers in order to create a new hotel resort and boost tourism (Hawai'i's number one source of income).  Making matters more complicated was the presence of an ancient Hawaiian burial ground on these lands.  Lingle wanted the bones removed and placed in (probably) the Bishop Museum, so that she could sell the area to her developers.
I wonder if any one would have stayed at a hotel in which Hawaiian ghosts haunted guests nightly.  "Night Marchers," the ghosts of Hawaiian warriors, are infamous for killing people who get in the way of their nightly processions - that'll fuck up your jeans!

The Supreme Court roundly refused her request to overturn the Hawaiian court's ruling.  Supposedly, they were each visited by the "suffocating ghost" that frequents the Hawaiian islands.  The ghost sat on a majority of the chests of the Supreme Court until he had convinced said majority to vote against Lingle.

Won third place in the Board of Publication's 2008-2009 annual "Excellence in Journalism" competition in the "Editorial Cartoon" category.