Lux Americana

I’ve been meaning to showcase the awesome editorial cartoons of Terence Nowicki, Jr. on here for awhile – hunting through his archives today, I found one which truly needs no words:

Won’t you please check out his collection at This is Historic Times, so he doesn’t kill me for reblogging his cartoon?

Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” has been seeing a big resurgence in popularity in the last 18 months, surpassing even Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” on Amazon.com’s sales rank.
Initial increases in sales coincided with central banks slashing interest rates, and the Bank of England’s bailout of Northern Rock in September of 2007.  The [...]

“The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.”
These are the words that herald the beginning of the end.
The end, that is, of Bill Maher’s Religulous, a 101-minute exploration of the absurdities and the terrors of religion as filtered through Maher’s unique lens.
Maher, who was raised Catholic (by a Catholic father and Jewish [...]