“People I don’t even know are calling me horrible names,” said Ms. Corfield, an art teacher who had pleaded the case of struggling teachers. “The mantra is that the problem is the unions, the unions, the unions.”

I drew the "Starwarts of the Jungle" in 2003 for either a strip cartoon or short animation which I started. Animation is a long long long process. I did not have the right computer programs, so I was making do with iMovie frame by frame, with sound from GarageBand... Then I moved onto Powerpoint with less frames. The characters were of course all the political warts including this one below. I eventually produced a CD with several comments on the iraq war, as "Piece of Peace" in a limited release of 50...

I sold 49 units and kept one for myself...

From 2001 to 2005, before joining this great site, Gus was doing some silly cartoons. For the silly season, or the jolly season for some, Gus will only post toons from the vault... Unfortunately most of these are still relevant today... Gus.

More than 1.1 billion new $100 bills have been put into quarantine while officials search for a solution to a printing problem that has rendered some of the bills unusable, an official familiar with the situation said Monday.

Originally scheduled for a February 2011 release date, the bills were the first run of a high-tech note designed to combat counterfeiting by including a 3-D security ribbon.

The Federal Reserve first acknowledged an issue with the bills in October, but did not specify the scope of the problem.

Former whistleblower and independent MP Andrew Wilkie has issued a scathing attack against the Prime Minister's handling of the WikiLeaks affair.

Mr Wilkie says Julia Gillard is showing contempt for the rule of law by failing to give Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the presumption of innocence.

Mr Assange was arrested by British police on Tuesday in response to a Swedish warrant on alleged sex crimes and faces possible extradition.