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Pantalone: What are we to make of this fellow? Is he knave or fool? Lombardi: I really don’t know. Probably a little of both.                                        — Carlo Goldoni, “Servant of Two Masters”If I had a little more […]

For the moment, Barry Blitt owns the Mueller Report, and I think he’s got it right though I wish things were otherwise.That is, I wish people did hear the mic drop, but expecting that much of the public is a flaw shared by Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, who seemed to believe that people might […]

I like Ed Wexler‘s cartoon, but only because I take the Donald Trump figure as a kind of collective metaphor. That is, I agree the bar has been lowered, but Wexler jumped the gun in assuming Trump would proclaim his own innocence.He sure ain’t the only one to be making assumptions at this stage.There have […]

Today’s roundup of things that are more complex than people seem to think will begin with Pat Bagley‘s astute analysis of the Meuller Report.My junior high science teacher had an atom in a box, or, at least, that’s what it said it was on the outside of the small, taped-up carton.And there was something in […]

Friday Funnies come just in time this week, because the firehose of serious stuff is making a mockery of that saying, “Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.”The long-form graphic commentators, plus the every-other-Wednesday part-time cartoonists, are just catching up on the college admissions scandal while the daily reactors are showing Trump […]

Carmen and Winslow have begun sorting through the candidates over at Prickly City, and today’s episode brought a couple of things to mind.First, to set my disclaimers, I’ve lived next door to Vermont for 30 of the last 32 years, in New York for most of those years, in New Hampshire for the past decade […]

So, having wearied of chasing Hillary Clinton around the Capitol over Benghazi, Devin Nunes is trying for an easier target.He’s suing his cow.He’s also suing his mother. That’s one cold-blooded dude.But perhaps he should read this article from 1988:Note the term “unanimous.” In Hustler v Falwell, even Scalia and Rehnquist agreed, not just Brennan, White, […]

We’ll start with Pooch Cafe, which is based on a question I’ve never asked a dog, not for fear of getting Poncho’s response but because I don’t expect any response at all.But I keep asking the question of politicians and I have no idea why, except that every once in awhile one of them does give […]

I’m as distracted as Mo — this has been quite a weekend, and if the worst outcome is a chunk of pineapple in your martini, you got away with a better taste in your mouth than the rest of us.It’s even worse than this. Ann Telnaes apparently drew this one before Trump first failed to […]

The Barn pretty well summarizes the day. As an excuse to get blind drunk, it’s not bad. As a holiday saluting a nation, well, it’s only one day out of 365 and tomorrow all those fools will be at work hungover.That should be punishment enough, but feel free to cheerfully ask them if they’ve got […]

I’m going to start with an encouraging word from Mark Anderson at Andertoons, in these days of shutdowns and cutbacks and layoffs.There’s something worse than getting fired.Not getting fired.I’ve popped around a fair amount and I’m very familiar with the job that is fun until your boss leaves or until the place is sold and […]

Not to worry, Pig. It’s Friday Funnies! And you don’t have to actually turn it off, as Clyde demonstrates. You can just blow it off. People like Winslow and Carmen will take care of everything for you. Hope you like their plans, by the way.The difference between Pig and Clyde being that Pig will eventually complain about […]

Congrats to Dave Granlund, mostly in contrast to those cartoonists who did cartoons about the Max8s still being in the air, only to have Dear Leader come sliding in, spikes high, at deadline time to announce he was grounding them.Trump could really mess with the press by doing that more often — serve up an […]

I know it goes against the rules of editorial cartooning, but let’s start with what Nancy Pelosi actually said:While Pelosi’s statement has drawn condemnation from several cartoonists at the left end of the spectrum, their outrage seems more idealistic than practical, little more than the same chants that MAGA crowds aimed at Clinton, with the […]

This Pat Bagley cartoon has been hanging around too long, but I’m going to feature it anyway because it’s such a good introduction to the blatant disinformation circulating in our system.Of course, nobody said we needed to do away with cattle entirely, but having even said that (A) they produce a lot of methane and […]