I’ve got nothing against Steve Breen and am only using his cartoon because he makes a specific claim that can be argued against.The more-than-half-a-dozen other cartoons on the topic simply accuse the New York Times of being incompetent and rushing to be unfair to Brett Kavanaugh without actually explaining how.When someone screams “I hate you! […]
A small nook — only three books — but you wouldn’t like a large nook and I’m not sure there’s any such a thing anyway. But first, the weather, and Speed Bump captures the moment, because we seem to have a boatload of monarchs here all of a sudden, and while most of them don’t seem […]
Wallace the Brave is off to have a terrible picture taken of himself. I remember having a school photo taken and then, two months later, getting to see how horrible it was.School photographers now offer “retake days” for those whose pics were truly ghastly, and I can pick out three or four of my school […]
Starting with a blank panel this morning because I don’t want to single anyone out, nor do I want to run a half-dozen or more cartoons all pointing out that Bernie Sanders sure does talk loud.I guess they hadn’t noticed before.When I moved back East a little over 30 years ago, Bernie was already mayor […]
Bizarro offers more politics than usual, but maybe this has been on Wayno’s mind as much as it’s been on mine.This meme from Occupy Democrats has been popping up regularly on my feeds. I don’t trust the group — they rarely give sources for their frantic accusations and, as with most of the ones I’ve […]
Last night I pulled out two bankers’ boxes of old manuscripts and published works and papers from college and high school and began sorting them, mostly into “recyclable paper” and “recyclable cardboard” and “trash.”I ended up keeping a modest 4-inch stack of stuff that I think will not drive my heirs and assigns to ask, […]
Michael Ramirez salutes the victory of Osama bin Laden, who managed to both undermine our freedom and to keep us firmly in his grasp nearly two decades later.Not sure that was the intent of the cartoon, but look around.Our misplaced priorities are based on pre-existing, irrational Islamophobia, given a semi-rational basis by the horrors of […]
One thing you learn early on in the opinionating business is that if you express yourself in anything longer than a single sentence, you’re likely to be surprised at what readers pick up on.The other thing you should learn is that being clever almost never works.It’s good that Jen Sorensen is, for all the minimalism […]
I’m a Houston Texans fan, so I was up late watching Monday Night Football last night, which gives today’s Moderately Confused a little extra punch.I’ve seen the ads for boxes of ingredients that let you make your own meals without shopping and, depending on the cost, that could make sense, though having it happen more […]
Bob Gorrell accuses Democrats of a double standard when it comes to truth and accuracy. I can’t agree.I’m not a Biden supporter, but his gaffes tend to be immaterial.And let’s remember that it was the Amazon-owned Libtard Fake News Washington Post that examined his story of the soldier and the medal and exposed its numerous […]
Kal Kallaugher opines on the mystifying Mitch McConnell, who apparently doesn’t like being called “Moscow Mitch,” but, as Kal notes, refuses to allow a vote on legislation to protect the security of our election system from Russian meddling.It is a puzzlement, indeed.I was watching the Netflix series on Bobby Kennedy yesterday. It’s very likely different […]
The Sharpie explosion has largely proven that the first gag that comes to you is likely going to be drawn by several other people as well. That makes it an irresistible prompt but a daunting challenge. The first cartoon I saw of using the Sharpie to raise approval rates or otherwise monkey with charts was Bill […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about.Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that the […]
Harry Venning’s latest “Clare in the Community” forces us all to admit that we’d never heard the term either.And I’d suggest, based on the fairly common stuff my spellcheck misses, that her friend must have a damn good app on his phone.But there it is in my Shorter Oxford, with which you cannot argue: Boris […]
Pat Bagley gets down to the basic point, which is that, when two apparent rights collide, the public good should be given precedence.We’ve analyzed the Second Amendment enough times here that I’m not going to go through it all again, but the Founders envisioned a system of quasi-independent state militias, and the reason they didn’t […]