Nellie Blog

I was thinking about Jerry Bittle the other day. Jerry was one of those friends that you meet on-line and think that some day you'll get...

Back in June, I wrote about the inanity of network news , particularly the morning shows, which, at the moment, were endlessly replaying foo...

This week, Drawing Conclusions looks at the Lebanese crisis through the eyes of Israeli cartoonist Kichka and Lebanese cartoonist Stavro. Me...

Hope none of their parents are attorneys This is a very early strip from "Cleats," which is one of my favorites. Bill Hinds, the ...

Chuck Perrin, who runs a jazz club in San Diego , is a vestige of the old folk days in college. He was two years ahead of me and already fa...

Just a few minor edits ... David Horsey ran this cartoon in April, 2002. It doesn't need much updating.

Given the state of world affairs, it shouldn't surprise anyone that both "Drawing Conclusions" and "Around the World with...

Hot Mike! No, no, not a reference to the guy in the picture -- though that skinny, brown-haired 32-year-old should not be overlooked despit...

A few weeks ago, I heard a British military authority on the BBC say something about how, just as the British had ended the threat of the IR...

Parts of this week were excellent And a happy Friday to all. You don't often hear the catchphrase, "Parts of it are excellent,...

Slim burns the flag This is one of two columns I repeated in the decade or so that I was a columnist. It first ran in the Press-Republican o...

Wow. Change of topic. Never mind the World Cup. Riverbend , a young Iraqi blogger, has more important things to talk about. I'm reminded...

This week in Drawing Conclusions, we look at the death of Ken Lay ... and make jokes. Poor guy, doesn't anybody shed a tear for him? (C...

Huh? By what logic, eh? I was intending to respond to Jimmy Johnson's request for enlightenment on the appeal of the World Cup, but am ...

Assuming I can work out the deadline issues over several time zones, this week's "Drawing Conclusions" is going to report on a...

If I were planning to retire, I'd have a little less than a decade to finish setting things up -- assuming I called it quits at 65. Now,...

Ralph Ginzburg 1929-2006 Oh there's a dirty paper using sex to make a sale The Supreme Court was so upset, they sent him off to jail....

When will they ever learn? I look at life as a series of opportunities to make this world a better place. One reason there's a problem i...

Semi-busted. I got together with the kids this weekend and gave them the exquisite pleasure of busting my chops. "I see you've got ...

Tom Toles: Cartoonist and Prophet Remember back when the administration proposed creating a phony news bureau -- that is, a bureau that woul...