Category Archives: Politics

The Cartoonist’s Guide to the Electoral College

10 Tuesday May 2016

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Today’s boring civics lesson is brought to you by everyone crying, “Why can’t we have a third party?!?” Please use your whiniest six-year-old voice to say that quoted part. Nobody born prior to 1975 should be asking the question. If you were born later, got to attend our stellar public school civics courses, and wonder the same thing: good on you! Intellectual curiosity will always be rewarded at Tempest in a Teardrop.

You may be wondering about my qualifications to write this post. I am a cartoonist. May I ask what qualifications you have as a reader? Continue reading →

Future Food

05 Thursday May 2016

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You are probably familiar with barbecue-friendly animals like cows and alligators. These sit high up in the backyard food hierarchy. Lower on the ladder, but no less tasty, lie edibles like corn, shrimp, and the meat-like-mystery-paste that hot dogs are made of. We are all about to become intimately familiar with an even lower layer in the grilled-food web. And by “intimately familiar” I mean in the husbandry sense. And by “husbandry sense” I refer to the raising, caring, killing, and eating cycle of said food.

I don’t mean “husbandry” in the marrying sense. Marrying your next meal is still illegal. Probably. Continue reading →