This week's caption contest winner

Check out the winner and runner-ups for this week's Cartoon Caption Contest here.

Today's cartoons 5/2/08

Today's cartoons

North versus South in NJ Senate race

And click here to see the sketch of this cartoon.

Thank you for flying McCain Airlines

Today's Pennsylvania cartoon

Voting Patterns: Race Still Matters
The Philadelphia Inquirer

This week's cartoon caption contest

Come up with a pointed caption for this cartoon and email it to rob.tornoe@politicker.com. Keep it clean (this is a family website) and keep it brief (brevity is the soul of wit). Whether you email or post, include your name and the name of the city where you live. Your deadline is noon Friday.

We'll post the winner's name and caption here Saturday morning, along with several runner-ups. If you send us your name and address, we'll mail the winning writer a color print of the cartoon with the caption, signed by Rob Tornoe. Please allow at least 4 weeks for delivery.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email me at rob.tornoe@politicker.com.

Good luck, and have fun!

Today's California Cartoon

PoliticerCA.com stoires:

Ex-NBA star and Sacramento mayoral candidate chased by sex accusations

Sacramento mayoral candidate's non-profit now being examined by federal officials

Caption Contest Winner

Congrats to Amy from New Jersey for this week’s winning caption.

Here are the runner-ups:

“Is this too much to pay for gas? History will judge.”
- Mike from Washington, D.C.

“Wait a minute. What did you just say? You’re predicting $4-a-gallon gas? …That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.”
- Emily from New Hampshire

“Whad'd you “think” I was gonna do about it? I wasn't much of an oilman neither.”
- Robert from Colorado

“You're doing a heck of a job, OPEC!”
- Frankie from New Jersey

Thanks for all your entries, whether commented or emailed. Check back Monday for a New Jersey specific caption contest.

Today's cartoons

First sketch with my new toy

Just finished playing around with my new toy from work, my Wacom Cintiq. It's like a normal Wacom tablet, the only difference being you can actually draw on the screen!!!


I'm too lazy right now to go upstairs to grab my camera, so this is a picture of how it works. Once I get it all set up properly in my studio, I'll take a picture.

Today's cartoons

Maybe we'll close Politicker's Delaware bureau after all

The News Journal has the story here.

Lock up the animals

The Philadelphia Inquirer has the story of the day.

Apparently, South Jersey police officer, already in jail after being accused of molesting three children, was charged yesterday with four counts of animal cruelty for having sex with barnyard animals.
Read all about it here.

Today's cartoons

David McCullough on what Adams and Jefferson would think of politics today

Over on the editoral page of the Kennebec Journal, I came across this video of Opinion Page Editor Naomi Schalit interviewing David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "John Adams."

Wilbon and Kornheiser talk politics

A Clockwork Orange newspaper props

The Barbican Arts Centre in London recently held a Stanley Kubrick retrospective. The foyer of Cinema 1 displayed some treasures from the Kubrick Archive. These newspaper props appear in A Clockwork Orange. Note Malcolm McDowell in the photos. The Ludovico cure touted in the headlines is a brutal and experimental aversion therapy.

There are more pictures here, including scouting photos from Barry Lyndon and the famous pages of Jack Torrence's novel from The Shining.


The annotation noted how there is still some conjecture as to whether Kubrick had every individual page typed, or they were photocopied. For my part, in the making-of documentary for The Shining, we see Kubrick on set typing some of the pages.

Cheney: I Asked Lynne If It Bugs Her That People Call Me Darth Vader

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