I particularly like this Bliss (Tribune), because my life includes taking the dog for a romp twice a day which, combined with my 35-hour work week, reduces me pretty much to being her chauffeur and, yes, I’m grateful that she gets me out of the house.Here’s the snippet I’m posting on-line today, as an invitation […]
There’s no doubt but that Kieran Meehan inked this Pros & Cons (KFS) well before Election Day, but a look at social media this morning more than justifies Lyndon’s view of things: Sociopaths seem to have a good grip on the conversation.There’s little for political commentators to analyze in the post-election chatter, but a great […]
The woman in this Jeff Stahler cartoon has had a lovely dream, but that’s all it is. Aside from a couple of too-close-to-call races, the election should be over, but that’s not how we do things anymore.The deniers began carping early about a few malfunctioning scanners in Arizona, ignoring the fact that it simply meant […]
I find myself scooped once again by my associate, DD Degg, who covered this large collection of political cartoons, but I had already planned to feature Clifford Berryman’s piece from October 19, 1948, as part of today’s celebration of prognostications gone awry.All the pollsters had the election in the bag for the New York governor, […]
“Someone asked me…how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell – Abraham Lincoln. He said he felt like the little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to […]
Ann Telnaes lays out today’s danger, both in terms of what happens in the case of an authentic Red Wave, and in a case in which apathy and pessimism cause people who value small-d democracy to stay home.Granted, even if the GOP were to take both houses of Congress, we’d have two years of Presidential […]
Horrified hilarity continues to build over at Twitter, and Joy of Tech confirms the ongoing disaster while sarcastically wondering if Himself is learning anything from it.The conspiracy theory is that Elon Musk decided to piss away $44 billion to acquire a platform worth, perhaps, $25 billion, and then drive it into the ground in order […]
Mike Peters (KFS)’s cartoon has convinced me that, like the chaplain in Catch-22, I’m either in the midst of a hallucination or on the verge of sainthood, because I appear to be the only one with a vision of Herschel Walker and Donald Trump that dates from well before the present.It was neither deja vu, […]
Teresa Burns Parkhurst sets today’s mood, combining pointless carping about clocks with meaningful fear of Tuesday’s outcome.Most of the clocks will reset themselves in the wee hours of tomorrow morning and we’ll adjust, but it’s not clear the country, or its people, ever will, if the midterms go off the rails. Prickly City (AMS) offers this […]
Stephen Collins reminds us that this is Whinging, Mewling and Complaining About Clocks Weekend, because we’ll be coming off Daylight Saving Time, which is nearly as horrific a moment as going back on Daylight Saving Time.One solution is to fly to Australia, where — as reported here a month ago — they’ve already been through […]
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to […]
Nick Anderson (Tribune) with the only hammer cartoon you need. Or, at least, the only one you’re going to see here, because they’re gaining on the corgis for numbers and for lack of new insights, though I guess if someone drew Fox News beating a dead horse with a hammer, I might buy into that, […]
One of my first memes, from back when a man with a hammer declared “Mission Accomplished” before several thousand American kids, and several hundred thousand Iraqis, died to prove him wrong.This morning, we are beleaguered with cartoons featuring bloody hammers, and I’d have had a tough time sorting through them if more of them had […]
It’s Halloween, but that seems to mean “Cartoonists’ Day Off.” I found myself resisting the urge to post an entire page of “The Grownups Ate The Candy” gags, which was 98% of what I found.Okay, that’s sarcasm. It was only 93%.I did appreciate this Mt Pleasant (Tribune) because there are parents who go completely Stage Mother […]
I’m going to have to be frugal with cartoons this coming week, given that most are either Halloween gags, which will become obsolete after tomorrow, or election cartoons, which will stop being pertinent after Tuesday. (Update: I can’t read a calendar. See comments.)Kevin Kallaugher combines the two in a way that works well today, because […]