National Bird Night 1971

National Bird Night 1971

(Acrylic ink, and paper on 20x24" canvas)

This work refers to phony rightwing Republican/conservative patriotism. If you dared criticize Nixon or the raging Vietnam war they lied us into, they shrieked that if you don't love America you should leave. They wrapped themselves in the flag, that doesn't mean shit to me and many people of color who got screwed over by our government.

The bird is a nod to the Pop art of the period, especially Roy Lichtenstein and his Ben-Day dot works. 

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As long as you're never forgetting 9/11...

Don't forget to not forget this other stuff too:

• Don't forget to eat your veggies.
• Don't forget to wax your car.
• Don't forget to give your uneaten supper to the starving masses in Africa.
• Don't forget to check under your bed for Communists.
• Don't forget to keep your privates smelling minty fresh, and I'm talking to you all you males out there.
• Don't forget to make a note of all the things you need to forget to remember.
• Don't forget to call your mother...what you call her is your business.
• Don't forget the Alamo or Pearl Harbor.
• Don't forget to wipe.

Happy 4th of July suckers!

I hope you're happy being free. Your freedom is brought to you by the Fortune 500 and all the companies and hedge funds that run Wall Street.

Remember, you're free here in the USA. You're free to consume as much as you can without any care as to what your consumption is doing to the world, the people we fuck over, and to the future. You're free to amass large amounts of debt and then free to slave away at a job that you hate so you can pay down the interest on that debt. You're free to think you've got it better than everybody else on the planet when in reality people in the most heavily taxed countries are far happier, healthier, and better off than you. They may pay higher taxes but they get a shit ton of services for what they pay. You're free to buy a gun and shoot up schools with it. You're free to hate me because I don't subscribe to your religious point of view and you're free to use your religion to hate others for being black, Latino, gay, or female.

Happy freedom suckers! And don't forget to thank all those soldiers who died in wars of conquest for your freedom, they died so you can enjoy the current empire that's built on cheap oil and the exploitation of workers.

Perverts

Another Martin Luther King Jr. Day has come and gone and Glenn Beck is trying once again to claim King's mantle. But to do that is to pervert King's message. King was pro union, Beck anti union. King was pro social justice, Beck is anti social justice. King was anti war, Beck is pro war. King was for economic equality for all, Beck is for the rich ruling class. King was non violent, Beck is pro violence. It was a badge of honor among conservatives to hate King, especially after he came out against the Vietnam war, so for Beck to claim to be a conservative and to claim King's mantle is another of his delusions and a perversion of history.

Sob sister Sarah Palin, America's most wronged woman and our nation's most perpetually victimized female, once again made the Tuscon shootings all about her. She went on that Fox Noise show and she decried all her detractors. She cried that people were twisting her words in order to criticize her and to get her to sit down and shut up. She wailed that the shootings in Tuscon were the act of an insane person who was in no way influenced by political hate speech. She sobbed that those who politicized the shootings were morally despicable and then she turned around and said that the shooter was a left leaning activist. Once again Ms. Quitter perverts the truth and reality. No one wants her to shut up, in fact most of us wish she'd talk more, especially to some real news outlets like the New York Times, NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, The Daily Show, This Week in NASCAR, anyone but those softball lobbing toast jockeys at Fox. It would be a huge win for her if she did talk to some other news outlet other than Fox because she can say what she likes then go on Fox and recant it all and claim that they perverted her words and the meaning behind them, she can be the victim yet again.

Palin and Beck, what a couple of perverted twits.

War, what is it good for?

Absolutely nothing.

Happy Memorial Day from all the men, women, and children who have died in the wars of terror and in the wars for corporate dominance. Go wave your flag at their graves while you're out waving your flag.