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Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes; With weekly libels and septennial ale, Their wish is full to riot and to rail.                                      – Samuel Johnson So Tim Eagan basically has […]

I went into my various stashes of political cartoons this morning knowing that, with the budget crisis having hit an armistice overnight, a lot of the commentary would be out-of-date even if it was filed yesterday. That may have put me into a mindset whereby timing, fortunate or otherwise, was forefront.  Take today’s Tank McNamara, […]

Thought we’d just hit an odd moment the other day, but the end-of-life jokes are still coming.  It’s not a trend over at Stone Soup, but rather a story arc, as Evie tries to reassure Val that things are fine. For regular readers, the secondary joke here is a running gag over the fact that everyone […]

Joe Martin doesn’t do political cartoons, but today’s Willie ‘n Ethel pretty much sums up the current situation and does it better than the “on the one hand, on the other” political cartoonists who simply repeat the same tired “Congress sucks” blame-sharing cartoons. We are media prisoners of the moronically “even-handed” approach to coverage ably […]

It’s hardly surprising when two or more political cartoonists come up with the same metaphor. Lord knows, Ted Cruz’s last name brought forth plenty of the same puns and I used the term “brought forth” because “inspired” seems inappropriate.But when a couple of strip writers happen onto the same general concept at random, it can […]

Sunday seemed like the right day to tackle (heh) the issue of racist names, or at least one in particular.It’s a sort of evergreen issue, so some of these cartoons are not from today or even the past week, which is how editorial cartoons are generally handled here. But none of the arguments are new […]

There are so many really bad cartoons about the shutdown — oh, excuse me, the “partial shutdown” — that I feel particularly compelled to feature ones that (A) seem to get it and (B) make a point beyond “gee, this sucks.”(And, yes, I do think it’s extraordinarily silly to add the word “partial” to make […]

This is the way the blog begins, not with a bang but a whimper.I was diagnosed with diabetes a year or so ago, though I’ve now lost enough weight that, if I’d been here then, I wouldn’t have been diagnosed, but it’s like being pregnant: There’s no going back and I have to exercise the […]

Here’s the opening panel of a cartoon by Bill Roundy called “Orientation Police: I’m gay. I date men. Some of those men have vaginas.”You should click on that link and read the rest of it.I think the timing is good, because society has begun to stop turning away from “alternative lifestyles” but remains, at this […]

Bug Martini on the requirements of public mourning, which throws me into the depths of a conundrum. And please, no “Lumpy Gravy” references of “Did you ever live in a conundrum?” because I’m focusing more on Pancho Pillow from “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” to whom Kesey delivered the oft-quoted-here line, “Why should I take […]

Stone Soup has been addressing the issue of civilized behavior this week, as Val attempts to take her daughters to a restaurant at which food is served on plates instead of wrapped in paper.This sets off one of my pet rants, which (A) is that we are allowing our children to be raised Tarzan-like, by […]

No heavy lifting today. Tank McNamara on the topic of college sports and amateurism. I’m not sure where Bill Hinds is taking this, but it’s a worthwhile issue, particularly as we prepare for a round of (yawn) Winter Olympics.The Olympics once had an elitist, often racist, amateurism requirement that needed to go. But the combination […]

Okay, it’s always stuff I like. That’s the format.But here’s #4000 for Prince Valiant, which is not only an impressive record for a Sunday-only strip but a good example of a re-invigorated zombie strip as well as a strip that happens to be a foundation for my love of comics and a very fine piece […]

One of my favorite sources of stupid humor is Monty, who continues to make the tired old “hapless guy looks just like the killer” gag even more ridiculous than usual, and thus justifies dragging it out in the first place.It either takes a lot of confidence or a lot of gall. Today’s installment speaks for […]

This gig would be a lot easier at the moment if I weren’t constrained by the Prime Directive, which is to feature good work and not snark at the bad. Without stooping to examples, there are a lot of commentaries on the current shutdown that range from clueless to contemptible, and I’m not sure which […]