There’s a lot of the taste of shoe leather going around these days in the Presidential campaigns.  Of course, being the civic minded folks that we are here at WoodChips Central, we commissioned Woody to create a Presidential Candidate Gaffe Preventer. I think he did a pretty good job, don’t you?  I mean, he took [...]

Cartoon dialogue: Maple: I heard things are so bad Congress had to lay off 25 EXXON lobbyist. Elmer: Wow, that bad! Caption: Now Washington really feels our pain.

Today’s cartoon puts me in mind of a whimsical little French story that happened long, long ago – about 1680 actually. Way back then, through some accidental twist of fate, the French government lost focus on trying to control everything.  I’m not sure why – could be they were all on a multi-year holiday, or [...]

I’m just waiting to hear this oxymoron about forcing people to comply with a government mandated program voluntarily, aren’t you?  We have a couple of candidates in the race now, Governor Romney and President O’Bama, so we’ll see if either one of them says it.  And of course, with all the health care reform talk, [...]

I got the idea for this cartoon from Jim Zaccaria, a Facebook friend.  Jim always has interesting and clever posts. As I was developing the cartoon, I wanted Mimosa to say Woody was looking “out of sorts.”  I checked to make sure I was using the phrase correctly and ran into this great web site [...]

An astute WoodChips reader recently pointed out (actually on March 26th, or was that the 27th as the 26th) that our free WoodChips calendars had two March 26th days in it.  The comment seemed to imply we had made a mistake. After much deliberation here at WoodChips Central we decided to follow the American Government [...]

In all fairness, I must give credit to a British friend of mine, Gerald,  for the CheeseHenge and building materials concept, who in all fairness tells me he got the idea from someone else, I think famous and in Britain, a comedian named Eddie Izzard, who is quite funny – so anyhow, that’s the whole [...]

Sometimes you can do all of the study in the world, but you will not understand until you actually put it to use. Travel is the best teacher. I heard some unsettling news this week from my friend Gerald in London.  Gerald is an ace copywriter and well informed gentleman with Drayton Bird Associates, who [...]

I got this cartoon idea from the late, great Arthur C. Clark, British science fiction author, inventor and futurist extraordinaire.  He fired my imagination as a young man, and I believe I’ve read virtually all of his books.  You may know of him from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Someone once asked him what [...]

Okay, so some of you may think the bus looks a lot like an Etch-A-Sketch. And some may think I am picking on Republican political candidate Mitt Romney – who, by the way – just had a staffer say that after the primary election was over they could just reset him (implied – on the [...]