Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) says that we’ve suddenly turned into a nation of legal experts, though, to be fair, he didn’t say “suddenly.” Rather, the sudden part is how we’ve focused our usual kibitzing on a particular legal question.There are only a handful of cartoonists and columnists who have been to law school, which perhaps is […]
The big news this morning is about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin last night. It was so predictable that cartoonists weighed in days before it happened, which would normally be dangerous but, well, not always.Bill Bramhall widened his vision to take in the international significance, as Carlson’s fawning is tied into Republican refusal to […]
A local cartoon, certainly, but one that will amuse people far from Glasgow. Steven Camley notes that police there are beginning to enforce a new national law against parking on sidewalks or at curb cuts as well as double parking. Or, as he has Lovely Rita explain things in the best possible way, you can […]
It has been nearly a month since Michael de Adder‘s last weekly cartoon for The Washington Post. Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to The Washington Post and charged with supplying three cartoons a week.Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. Then […]
David Rowe picks up on both themes for today: King Charlie has been diagnosed with cancer, and so has Uncle Sam, at least in the John Dean sense of there being a cancer on the presidency. We’ll get back to that second part.As for the King’s cancer, Matt is refreshingly sarcastic about the vague announcement. […]
Nick Anderson makes an interesting observation: There has been a constant drumroll from the right publicizing the idea that the border is open. Maybe that encouraged more people to try, despite the Obama administration’s publicity warning them that it was too dangerous and unlikely to succeed.I’m not convinced either stands up to much scrutiny. Jonathan […]
From The Daily Pennsylvanian: Interim Penn President Larry Jameson criticized recent political cartoons published by a lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication.In a statement published on University social media Sunday night, Jameson said that the cartoons do not reflect his or the University’s views, describing them as “reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys.Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard of […]
The Herblock Foundation has extended the deadline for accepting submissions. Cartoonists now have until February 5, 2024 to get submissions in for the Herblock Prize. Deadline February 1st, 2024: Extended until February 5th! After reviewing the eligibility rules below, please go to the link for our Entry Form to upload your submissions: https://www.herbblockfoundation.org/herblock-prize/entry-form
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” — Friedrich NietzcheBoth Nietzche and Joe Heller offer symbolic analogies; Heller’s is harder to misinterpret, but neither makes it easy to answer the […]
My first reaction to this Non Sequitur (AMS) was that it’s impossible. We all know that the way you learn to check before sending is by sending before checking, a lesson gained through experience.It was a lot more fun back in the days of listservs, which, O Best Beloved, set up a little closed universe […]
We’re starting our commentary on a uniquely American phenomenon with reactions from a pair of Canadians, and why not? If a segment of our fellow citizens make asses of themselves in public, of course others are going to notice.Frum manages to make the connection with the GOP’s attempt to turn everything into revenge for the […]
Kal Kallaugher offers an antidote of sorts to all the polling and panic, pointing out that party members barely make up half of voters. (Gallup says 27% Democrat, 25% Republican, 45% independent, presumably with some rounding.)He emphasizes his point not just by having the fellow bang on the ceiling, but by referring to “the rest […]
If the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by psychiatrists, were to officially recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as the serious mental illness that it is, there would be thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of leftists across the country diagnosed as suffering from the world’s only political psychosis. Conservative political opinion writer Peter Parisi at The […]
Editorial cartoonist Alex Burns Cook has passed away. Alexander Burns (Alex) Cook February 1, 1926 – January 25, 2024Editorial cartoonist, sports cartoonist, caricaturist From the obituary: Alex spent most of his youth in Saint Joseph, Michigan where the proximity of tugboats and steamers was the perfect playground for an adventurous boy. While in high school, […]