Cultural Differences (2003)

April 10, 2003

Cultural differences.

Maybe just put in a toe?

Maybe just a few "advisors"?...

It Don't Work That Way Anymore!

This blog is run on blogger. A few years ago they changed the way it worked and I became a "Classic Version" holdout

When Microsoft added the dumb ribbon to MS Word, etc. it forced me to relearn how to use my old and trusted tools. facebook? gmail? twitter? Nothing still works the same, which has led me to formulate a rule:

Nothing continues to work the same way once you've learned how it works!!

BTW I recently decided to set up a Dry Bones YouTube "channel." I began with an Internet search for technical info and insider tips on how to do it. Most of what I found were painful posts, pitiful whimpering and cries of anger. Seems like YouTube had just changed the way YouTube "channels" worked.

SARS? (2003)

April 20, 2003

Google Glasses

The future? Yikes!!

SARS (2003)

April 28, 2003
Ten Years ago!

Yay Boston!

Our hearts go out.

the Two Koreas

Korea Korea

Before Hi-Tech (1973)

April 30, 1973

Today's cartoon is from April 1973.

When I drew this cartoon the Dry Bones comic strip was 4 months old. Today, as I write these words, the Dry Bones comic strip is 40 years old.

Boston Bombing

It never seems to stop. Yes, our societies, towns, and cities survive. Yes, we are strong. We bounce back. But for the victims,their bodies torn apart, limbs blown off, for the dead and their families and those who loved them. For all of these it will never be over.

Theirs is a life sentence.

Israel at 65

Today is the first of a two-day Israeli holiday.

The first part, today, is Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day. A day of remembering and longing for those who died so that the Jewish State could live. It is one of those times when Israel feels more like a family than a country. A day of sadness.

The second part begins at sundown when the country bursts into a celebration of life! It'll be Israel's Birthday!
This year is our 65th. What's planned is day of picnics, barbecues, family outings and parties!
The country is festooned with flags.
Big flags, little flags, flags that clip onto our car windows and hang from our balconies.

Strangely, we remain an island of calm surrounded by a sea of rage, which, for the time being at least, seems not to be directed at us!

Changing Times

I believe that President Obama is wisely attempting to put together a new and important regional alignment in the Mideast.

...and, in my opinion, the Palestinian Charade is over.

How it Was (1998)

April 20, 1998

I drew today's cartoon fifteen years ago. It has held up for almost all of those years but suddenly the situation has changed. I believe that "How it Was" is no longer "How it Is".

For my take on what has changed everything, you'll have to see tomorrow's cartoon.

Squaking

Yup! The accepted wisdom in Israel was that no government coalition could or would ever be put together without the "Ultra Orthodox" political parties.

Whether we were "for it" or "against it". It's what we all believed. It couldn't happen. And it happened. And the sky didn't fall down. YIKES?!!

Their Inheritance (2003)

April 13, 2003

Today's Golden Oldie is ten years old. After a week of Passover and yesterday's commemoration of Yom HaShoa, this cartoon seemed particularly appropriate to post.

Presidential Problems

Permit me to say few words about today's cartoon from a cartoonist's point of view.
When I began doing Dry Bones cartoons back in 1973, I drew six panels in every cartoon. A few years ago I switched to a four panel structure. Today's cartoon could/should have been a two-panel cartoon, but I wanted the tempo and pacing provided by a four panel "read". Which explains the four panel background in a two panel. That's the kind of problem that a cartoonist tries to solve.

The kind of problems that an American President is called upon to "solve" are, as pointed out in today's Dry Bones cartoon, a bit more challenging.

Turkey's Choice

When I started drawing the Dry Bones cartoons, way back in January of 1973, the accepted wisdom was that the future for a democratic Middle East was tied to the fortunes of Christian Lebanon, the secular government of Muslim Turkey, and the Jewish State of Israel. We assumed that the three would eventually transform the entire area.

The accepted wisdom was wrong. We're down to one bright light of freedom and Western democracy in the entire region.

* * * The accepted wisdom now would be that the United States and the Western democracies would spring to support Israel, their last hope for a real democracy in the Middle East.

Once again, the accepted wisdom is wrong.

North Korean Threats

Suddenly a cold wind out of the north, and anyone with any sense has to hold his or her breath.

Yikes!!