Hard to believe, but it's been almost two years since Bush delivered that turkey to the troops in Iraq. [UPDATE: Though the turkey was initially reported to be plastic, it was in fact a real turkey -- but a decoration that was not actually served to the troops. The troops ate turkey served from steam trays.] The more time goes by, the more it strikes me that the fake turkey is an excellent metaphor -- well, one of many excellent metaphors -- for this administration.

I'm glad I got a jab at the odious Joe Lieberman in this strip. That man has done untold amounts of damage to this country by lending his jowls of faux legitimacy to the zaniest of Bush's schemes. Every damned day I read about Joe being "encouraged" by Alito's empty assurances, or saying "partisanship" is what's causing the decline in Americans' support for the Iraq war. (To which Joe Biden accurately replied, "it's not partisanship that has caused the American people to leave this war, it's the gap between the rhetoric from the administration and the war on the ground.") It is high time the press stopped calling this guy a moderate and pegged him for the far-flung Bush apologist that he is.

In other news, I've added the "Email post" feature to the blog. I've been meaning to set up a program so people can easily forward the cartoons themselves (right now there's some pretty weak code in place on the current strip page that opens up a message in your e-mail program, if you're lucky). But the blog e-mailing appears to work splendidly.