Hi, Taylor!

I'd like to offer you something to complement the great writing and analysis that we've come to expect from you, and now from your guest bloggers as well.

I won't even try to compete in your category. While I've been blogging regularly over the last year or so on both politics and simple living, I've found that I most enjoy using satire, usually with graphics. Undoubtedly, this comes out of my lifelong passion for political cartooning, and using this medium predates my blogging.

You've used satire/graphics sporadically, but typically as an accompaniment to serious writing. Have you considered adding this voice as a regular feature on its own?

Following are some samples of previous blog posts and additional related graphics. I value your thoughts.

Cheers!

Randy Gold
Sherman Oaks, CA
rfgold@earthlink.net
818-990-7685

My blogs:
SoCal Grassroots (8/2005 thru 3/2006)
The Deciderer's Last 1,000 Days
Simple Living America

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Ceci n'est pas un roi

René Magritte
Ceci N'est Pas Un Roi (This is Not a King), 1928
Musée du Jobards (Lyons, France)


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My president visited New Orleans and all I got was a lousy t-shirt

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Chertoff
DeLay-Condi-Babs-Hastert

George W and friends and family are dropped into the middle of a flooded city with no money and no food and no credit cards and no vehicle and no identification and no outside communications and no change of shoes or finely-tailored suits.

Nobody knows who they are.... and nobody cares!

ADMINISTRATION SURVIVOR: New Orleans

Watch the fun this fall, Wednesday nights on CBS.

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First Annual Pentagon-athon

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!

$500 billion just doesn't go as far as it used to. Anybody who has to balance a family budget or meet a weekly payroll knows this. Well, we at The Pentagon are subject to these same terrorist economic forces, even in the best of times.

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The Bushles Discography

"Boot the Bushles", 2004

"Libby Rove", 2005

"A Hard Day's Work", 2006

"Let 'em Pee", 2006

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A few political entries from my series "Double Lives: Celebrities Who Look Like Works of Art":

Richard Nixon and....
Moai statue on Easter Island

Joe Lieberman and....
Rembrandt's "Man With a Golden Helmet" (1654)

Lay in peace

Kenneth Lay and....
Perov's "Portrait of the Merchant Ivan Kamynin" (1872)

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