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November 27, 2007

The Annapolis summit on the Mideast

The Bush Administration calls a major summit on solving the problems of the Mideast. Not very likely to succeed, but at least the Arab League realizes the urgency this time and more nations are being represented.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 6:08 AM

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November 18, 2007

Santa Susana Field Lab

The plan at the moment is for Boeing to clean up the Boeing/Nasa/Rocketdyne site, home of nuclear tests, radioactive waste and other toxins, and cede it to the state as open space.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 7:09 AM

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November 14, 2007

Oil spills from San Francisco to Russia

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 5:06 AM

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November 13, 2007

The neighborhood

I was originally going to do a cartoon about Pakistan and maybe Iran, and looked at an atlas; then I realized that Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan all lined up, one after another... hence the notion of a "neighborhood."

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 6:28 AM

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November 12, 2007

Going slightly Mad

For those who grew up with the magazine, or even still read it, my editorial
cartoon in the Star from Sept. 25, on Iran's AhMADinejad ("What, me
Worrisome?"), was reprinted in the new December issue of MAD magazine in
their Letters section. You may need a magnifying glass to see it though
(they ran it about 2 inches wide!).

You can see it on this blog at by going to the September archives (see menu on right-hand side).

For those who may be wondering, I've been in Mad a few times before, but
more legitimately as a writer and cartoonist, albeit not since the 1990s.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 11:59 AM

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November 11, 2007

Universal healthcare

What do Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hillary Clinton have in common? An uphill battle to implement their visions of universal healthcare coverage, for California and the U.S., respectively.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 4:42 AM

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November 6, 2007

Writers Guild goes on strike

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 4:58 AM

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November 4, 2007

Drug-resistant superbugs

The widespread use of antibiotics, especially broad-spectrum ones, has had the unintended side-effect of creating drug-resistant "superbugs," those bacterial that manage to survive the antibiotics. A type of staph called MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has evolved into a killer, and has the potential to cause huge numbers of deaths across the nation and the world.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 5:43 AM

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November 1, 2007

The American Landscape

As a Page One news story in the Star from Oct. 21 pointed out, widespread use of meth has become part of the landscape of not just Ventura County, but the entire state and the entire nation as well.

Posted by Steve Greenberg at 5:34 AM

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