I said before that the Danny-Goes-To-University theme at Between Friends was going to be a rich vein for Sandra Bell Lundy, and it is proving to be just that.I also said then that she had set Kim up well, since Kim is not overly neurotic as a parent and so the issue can unfold on […]
Several cartoonists commented on the lack of progress in the half-century since the March on Washington and MLK’s iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. I like Chan Lowe’s take because of its blandness.Start here: To say there has been no progress is to reveal your ignorance of the status quo in 1963.I guess some of […]
CPA3PO would be horrified at the Drawer of Money Things.That’s not “draw-er,” as in Hilary Price, who is the “drawer” of Rhymes with Orange.That’s “drawer” as in “the drawer of the end table tucked under my work table” or “the amalgamated filing system.” Or, to put it another way, “where I shove stuff that I […]
Some days, you’re just in the mood for thoughtful silliness, like Deflocked. And I don’t mean “thoughtful” in the sense of “absolutely new gags,” much less in the sense of “gags you need to really think about before you get them.” First of all, there aren’t a lot of new gags, at least not since […]
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve had to care about this stuff, but young Edison Lee has an interesting twist on back-to-school shopping.The kid has a way of connecting the dots in a pattern that is sometimes amusingly paranoiac and other times, well, okay, still amusingly paranoiac, but in a way that I can relate to.There […]
Matt Davies on the launch of Al Jazeera America.And he’s right, of course, in that the network is facing an almost impossible set of challenges: Getting past the Islamophobia of the past several decades, and getting past the expectations that a “good” news network is one that reinforces your prejudices, whichever end of the spectrum […]
About five years ago, I was editing a twice-weekly newspaper in Farmington, Maine, and the publisher left, which meant I now was also editing a biweekly (other kind of biweekly) newspaper in Rangeley, which meant I was also writing three or four articles for each issue. There was a marina-and-boat-shop-and-snowmobile-and-ATV-shop expanding, and I needed to go […]
One of the frustrations of campus activism in the 1960s was the history professors who would blandly dismiss it all, citing other times when the world had seemed on the brink, as a reason we should just carry on with our studies and let matters unfold.It gives me pause, since I now, nearly a half […]
Ted Rall posits the “What if it were happening to you?” question, neatly reversing Israelis and Palestinians to forestall the inevitable accusations of antisemitism that flow when settlements are questioned.It’s a shame that genuine antisemites do indeed advance the argument that you can question Israeli policies without being an antisemite, because you genuinely can, as […]
It’s fashionable to hate Garfield, with his repetitive dread of Mondays and abuse of Odie and embrace of lasagna and so forth and so on. Or, at least, that’s what I assume still goes on there. To tell the truth, for all the strips I read every day, Garfield isn’t one of them.However, that said […]
Kieran Meehan specializes in the clueless and “Pros & Cons” is one of the strips I most look forward to every morning.Stupid is funny when it’s fictional. But, of course, the humor comes from hitting just the right level of exaggeration, the point where you laugh at the absurdity of the situation depicted because you […]
Mike Luckovich on the rodeo clown incident. Everyone is officially horrified, and then a (Republican) Texas politician invites the man who insulted the President of the United States down to Texas to do it again. There is a way of responding that quells this stuff, and a way that winks, and either the GOP has some […]
Shannon Wheeler strikes a blow for freedom of expression or of thought or of not living your life in a constant clench.Mostly, I suspect, the latter, which is good enough for me, though I suppose he could have just been being sarcastic. No, wait: That’s impossible. Not him.Anyway, it made me laff, and it also […]
I was at my school reunion this past weekend. The place is too small to make individual class reunions practical, so we just all get together and chip in for a buffet. It’s really more of a “homecoming” celebration without the football game. When I was growing up, it was a miningtown, but the mines closed […]