RATHER THAN STICK ALL THE CARTOONS in this one article, I moved all but the featured cartoon by Pat Byrnes (for The New Yorker on September 30, 2019) to other posts on this blog! Yeah, I know: It’s a sneaky way for me to get those of you hooked on climate change cartoons to peruse the other articles.
So, go peruse . . .
“Can’t you lay off the climate change for one minute and simply enjoy the fall colors?”

Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)