Jimmy Kimmel is apparently back on the air, or will be tonight. I’m holding off my belief until it happens, but, even if it happens, Sinclair’s ABC stations won’t carry the program and we’ll see how viewers like that, but I’ll bet the FCC won’t land too hard on them for failing to serve their […]
Today’s lead-off was an odd coincidence, since it appeared the day after a conversation at the dog park with a Spanish teacher and my friend who speaks Brazilian Portuguese, about the need to not only teach kids a second language but to teach them about the culture in which it is spoken.One of the oddities […]
Pickles provides us with an excellent starting point, because, as noted here yesterday, we should keep some sense of humor amid the wreckage of a fine country. Not only does it give us the spirit to keep going, but it gives us the strength to keep resisting.Most Americans aren’t in any great danger of being […]
I’ve seen this Paul Noth cartoon before, but he’s run it on his current blog and it seems timely though I wish it didn’t. There’s also a social media comment that seems applicable: “Elect a clown, expect a circus,” though he’s wrong: We’re not the only ones who don’t find things so funny.This Sipress piece […]
Parodies of official seals are a standard tool in the cartoonist’s magic box, but they can be hit-or-miss. Boris nails this one largely because the purpose of the FCC is so at odds with its current execution, so the irony of its malfeasance is striking and mockery of it is darkly humorous.Today’s headline is a […]
The Constitution turned 238 yesterday, including the first 10 amendments, aka “The Bill of Rights.”In case you’ve forgotten, or went to a school that didn’t teach history, it was a struggle to come up with a governing document that everyone could agree with. There was a substantial debate in the newspapers between Founders who believed […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
The difference in our nation doesn’t get much starker than this, to which someone might say “Yeah, but how many people even remember Kennedy’s inauguration?”It’s a fair question. I turned 10 a week after he was inaugurated, so I remember him, but not in a political context. I remember that he was president and that […]
Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. That “allegedly” part is beginning to fray a bit, given that Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for publishing it and denied that it was his signature on […]
I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday strip will have to suffice.When Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” in 2017, it touched off a lot of mockery. After […]
The gag here is that the scale doesn’t go that far, though if Whitehead realized that when he drew this cartoon he’d have added more beer cans. Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” and he was a Deist. I’m agnostic and I feel the same way, so […]
Yesterday I said that anyone doing a Charlie Kirk cartoon a day later would have to do something particularly good. Some did well, some not so well, but I like Guffo’s piece, because he doesn’t over-reach but he has something to say. Kirk’s murder is a blow against freedom, and it’s perfectly valid to say […]
I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineAnd I cried when they shot Mr. KennedyLike I’d lost a brother of mineBut Malcom X got what was comingHe got what he asked for this timeSo love me, love me, love meI’m a liberal! — Phil OchsCharlie Kirk was shot yesterday shortly after noon […]
I often have to pause and decide whether to put a Paul Noth piece in the political folder or the humor folder. Even his cartoons that don’t seem to reference a particular politician have significant bite.Obviously, this one hints at a specific person, but it contains an element of plausible deniability, not that cartoonists need […]
I can’t argue with Ramirez on this one: Those four nations are certainly a threat to democracy.But it seems like looking out the window at the neighbors’ place while the smoke detectors are going off in your own house. It is a good and proper thing to worry about the folks next door, but you […]