I've long gotten a kick out of the Republicans' attempts to sell the idea of "personal accounts" to the people. It's like they're saying, "Look! Our plan lets you USE YOUR OWN MONEY to pay for that appendectomy. Isn't that EXCITING!? Ownership society! WOO!" It's like they're trying to sell you your own pants. It's such an obviously bad deal that it's hilarious. To me, anyway.

As you may have noticed, I'm playing around with the positioning of the "Slowpoke" title this week. With the open text at the top, I thought the cartoon looked a little cluttered with the logo in its usual spot, so I decided to copy a layout maneuver I saw in the Funny Times. If you look at this month's issue, you'll see one of my cartoons on the back cover with the title rotated like this. I assume they did it for space reasons, but thought it looked kind of cool. Feel free to drop me a line and let me know if you find it: a) charmingly rakish, or b) upsetting and disorienting, or c) whatever, man.