Dear Leader has announced another set of tariffs, which he claims will likely be modified once he has concluded trade deals with the nations involved, which is most of them, or possibly more than all of them, since he once said “There’s 200 countries. You can’t talk to all of them.’’You certainly can’t, because there […]
Sorensen reframes matters in current, rather than traditional, terms, and it’s hard to disagree with her suggestion that we stop pretending things are the same as they’ve always been. It seems time to, as Howard Cosell put it, “Tell it like it is.”It’s hard to avoid knowing that things have changed, and if for some […]
Another of those “Where to begin?” days, as we look into things said and unsaid, implied, inferred and wise and idiotic. Mostly, for today, the latter.Let’s start in Texas, where it remains unclear what part cuts to NOAA and the NWS played in the tragedy, and what part is due to lack of a functional […]
Between commentary on a holiday now past and pending legislation now passed, the political folks need to do some catching up. Meanwhile, the funny people have done fairly well lately.I’ve somewhat given up on chopsticks, though I got good with them in the 70s when authenticity seemed important and we were eating short-grained brown rice, […]
We’ll start with the conclusion, which, as Chappatte explains it, is that we’re finally honest with each other, or at least that we’ve reached a point where things are becoming plain.Of course, the empty rhetoric continues, explaining how this is such a wonderful deal for the average person and assuming that nobody will look behind […]
Following a major holiday is excellent timing for Workaholics Day and I say that as a dedicated workaholic. I’m not the neurotic type obsessed with the notion that, if I took a few days off, they’d notice they didn’t need me. However, I am the neurotic type who, when I had a Sunday column, would […]
We sure do, and on both sides. Those who think we are in crisis need to settle down and come up with a plan. Running around screaming isn’t a plan, nor is hurling insults. Mass protests and voter registration drives are plans. Reclaim the flag. Celebrate the intentions. If someone quotes Stephen Decatur’s “My country, […]
As I’m writing this, the House is in an all-night session, not so much debating Trump’s major bill as seeing which side can hold on longest. By time you read it, we may know the answer.But what we already know is that there is a cult of personality and an atmosphere of fear governing Congress. […]
I’m not thinking about games and consoles, but I am taking a day for humor in hopes of distracting from the news a bit.That doesn’t mean giving in and it doesn’t mean turning off entirely. I emailed my Congressional representative before I began today’s posting. It took about two minutes, in part because I didn’t […]
I’ll confess to having paid more attention to the wretched excess in Venice than it deserved, which is any. But, unlike the couple in Milbrath’s cartoon, I did have my chair swung around the other direction, and I have also been paying attention to the wretched excess being foisted upon us all in Washington.According to […]
No specific commentary on this one, beyond marveling that Dan Piraro makes Sundays such a pleasure. There used to be more Sunday strips that featured painstaking art, but a lot of them are gone and the two whose Sundays I enjoyed most — Mark Trail and Prince Valiant — have been converted to a simpler […]
I’ve been having a debate with myself over when you say a person is misinformed and when you call them a deliberate liar. It’s a debate the entire nation has been sucked into. The third possible category is “raving looney,” however, and if you’d like a fairly detailed justification for that one, I strongly recommend […]
Canada Day is this Tuesday and I don’t actually have a Canadian cartoon handy, but we’ve just further bollixed our relationship with our second largest trading partner — Mexico is first; we have a talent for not following the money — and things are beginning to sound like this Edison Lee. When I was covering […]
Today is the Big Day — the start of three Big Days — if you think the Bezos/Sanchez wedding is the event of the season. For my part, I’m mystified by the whole thing, though, unlike Le Lievre, I wouldn’t imply that the entire $50 million should have been spent on the homeless instead.I’d put […]
I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]