Plead the First

From CNN.com:
A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued what is likely to be a landmark opinion — ruling that race cannot be a factor in the assignment of children to public schools.
The court struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, concluding they relied on an unconstitutional use of [...]

One-Button Mouse was a site I started many years ago where I used to showcase my icons and desktop pictures – artwork for customizing your computer. I regularly and lovingly updated the site, but eventually One-Button Mouse began suffering from some serious neglect. I stopped returning its calls, and eventually suggested maybe we could just [...]

We’ve had a friend visiting us at the Iconfactory this week – Wolfgang Ante, the proprietor of ARTIS Software and fellow collaborator on xScope and Frenzic. Wolfgang flew over from Austria last week for WWDC in San Francisco, and stopped by Greensboro afterwards. He has some great photos of downtown Greensboro up on his Flickr [...]

I received a great Father’s Day present today – my wife and kids had a book printed with all of my political cartoons from last year. I’ve included some pictures below (click on them to see larger versions if you’d like).
The cover:

Inside the cover:

Dedication page:

The first page has all of my early, pre-News and Record [...]

Fecund Stench has an update on the now-full-strength surge in Iraq. It’s not sounding too helpful, unfortunately.

There are some who attempt to wave away the fact that there is a correlation between being Republican and disbelieving the theory of evolution. However, a recent Gallup poll supports that correlation:
The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved [...]

Just wanted to apologize (to the one or two people who actually check in here regularly) for the lack of updates. I’ve been away for the past two weeks, driving across the country and back again on vacation with my family. The two weeks or so before that when I wasn’t posting was simply old-fashioned [...]