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Friday February 25, 2011 · 4:02 PM PST

2011/02/25 · 16:02

A friend of mine at Radio Signal's Art has been watching the news out of Madison, having lived there herself for a number of years. When she heard that labor groups were proposing a general strike in the area, she created an image that is a take on the classic Sabo-cat with a distinctly Wisconsin slant.

For those of you unfamiliar with Sabo-cat, it is a black cat arching its back. It was placed by workers to serve as a threat of work slowdowns and inefficiencies to unethical employers. The symbol is still used today.

The image is after the break. Radio Signals released the image under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 · 12:20 PM PDT

2010/05/25 · 12:20

With everything that's been going on, the GOP has decided on a new spin for the gulf oil disaster. This might take a second, but stay with me here...what have krill ever really done for you? That's right, nothing. No, don't try to think about it, that's for liberals. Trust us, krill are terrible freeloaders who pal around with terrorists. Let the world know you're not going to take it anymore. The gulf oil spill is not a problem, it's a solution.

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 2:05 PM PDT

2009/10/01 · 14:05

GvR: No Counting

My artist and I had a discussion about a recent comic on our site. It went something like this:

Elissa: "I could get away with a tasteful Lady Liberty in chains, I’m not sure I can get away with a Lady Liberty on all fours getting kicked..."

Derek: "Conservatives are trying to get away with it."

Elissa: "Good point."

I have to admit, I am often times criticized by progressive readers for putting far too much effort into being rigorously even-handed. Generally, I try not to take cheap shots and while some of my recent comics would have qualified as exactly that six months ago; the times they keep a' changing. I see the conservative far-right has outdone itself yet again this last week, and mainstream Republicans are there to play along.

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 9:28 PM PDT

2009/09/08 · 21:28

Girl vs Robot: Help Me, Bro!

Unemployment is up, firms are closing and shipping jobs overseas. Financial institutions are consolidating and maintaining profits, but still wary of lending, which is slowing economic development and new business creation. Stimulus money is starting to be spent, but is mainly keeping jobs from disappearing rather than creating new ones. But the economic reports, as terrible as they are, are hiding something far more sinister.

Ten years before the current recession, we started to see lower independence, employment, and financial stability in an important sector of the economy: the young. Twenty-four percent of workers under 35 say they do not make enough money to pay their monthly bills. One in three are currently living with their parents for financial reasons.

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Monday September 07, 2009 · 9:07 PM PDT

2009/09/07 · 21:07

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Girl vs Robot: Dead Peasants

Before we get into the potential "next big thing" on Wall Street, let me just make one thing clear. I'm not saying Wall Street did not learn it's lesson from the financial meltdown of 2008. By all accounts they've learned it quite well. This time around they'll be structuring the securities so that they make the fees and set-up costs and the investors bear the risk. No more toxic assets. Problem solved. That was the problem with the financial crisis, right? It was that the investment firms lost money?

Not so this time around. Mortgages are bust, so they've been looking for the next big way to monetize risk. It's based around "life settlements." If you buy a life insurance policy, you might just be able to sell it. You get a portion of the money up front and the purchaser then pays the premiums until you die and they collect the payout. If you die early, they make a lot. If you live longer than expected, they might just lose their shirts.

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 12:17 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 12:17

Girl vs Robot: Easy Money

For almost any product and brand you may have in your home, there is a Chinese clone out there somewhere in Asia. Common wisdom is that these are cheap knock-offs, but many of them are in fact exact duplicates that come from the exact same factories; a side-effect of offshoring.

Although one may first think of the last profits from these name-brand knock-offs, the real implications are much worse for American business than a few pirate iPhones.

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 9:01 PM PDT

2009/09/01 · 21:01

Here towards the end of the town halls, an argument has gotten popular that goes something like this: health care is not in the constitution, therefore, the government cannot create a federal health care program. There’s a major flaw in this argument.

From the preamble:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

But it also shows up later in Article 1 Section 8

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 9:15 PM PDT

2009/08/19 · 21:15

NYT - C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists

More details have emerged about the CIA plan for targeted killings of Al Qaeda leaders. When the story first broke that the CIA had been failing to brief the required congressmen about the operation on the orders of the Vice President, many were shocked and outraged. As details emerged about what the operation was and that it had not become operational, most of that outrage subsided.

At the time, many who had been inside the affair assured the public that the program had been an on-again-off-again affair that had not gotten far and cost less than $1 million in total. Congressional guidlines require the disclosure of all operations costing more than $25,000 but in addition to that, there are now reports that mercenary outfit Blackwater (now called Xe after a corporate re-branding) were hired to assist with training and surveillance.

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 9:54 PM PDT

2009/08/18 · 21:54

August has seen some sweltering political discourse, and it will only get worse before it gets better. Republicans were successful in stymieing a vote before the congressional recess and Republicans have been feeling pretty good about the August town halls.

Below I touch on some of the major points of the last week.

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Sabo-Badger

New GOP Domestic Oil Slogan

GOP: Saving America?

Obama and the Under-35 Vote

Dead Peasants

US Business Loves Easy Money

Promote the General Welfare

CIA Hired Blackwater to Assist in Targeted Killings

Obama Feels the August Heat