There’s a lot going on in the world, but I’m devoting today to stuff that hit me personally.For instance, Jeff Stahler addresses something that has occurred to me, because this year (2017) we’re still on the old tax system but next year, we go to the new, improved system and the year after that they […]

I’m starting with Gary Clement’s commentary on the Trump administration’s apparent decision to finish the GOP’s efforts under George W. to screw up the entire Middle East.Emphasis on “apparent,” which is why I like the joyous, childish cannonball image he uses. As Kevin pointed out in the comments yesterday, Trump’s Evangelical base sees the move as […]

 I’m assuming that, by the time many of you read this, Al Franken will have resigned his Senate seat, and I’m posting Steve Sack’s take for two reasons:One is that he’s the cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and thus has standing to criticize his home state’s senator.The other is that he goes after the “innocent […]

You may have already seen the latest from Ann Telnaes, because cartoonists have been sharing it all over the Interwebs.There’s nothing to add, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t stir thoughts, a large part of which is that cartoonists have been chasing their tails for weeks trying to comment on the #METOO movement and subsequent […]

I don’t know if today’s Pooch Cafe would have cracked me up quite so much if I hadn’t just seen the news that Quentin Tarantino is considering directing a Star Trek movie.I loved “Pulp Fiction” because it was totally absurd and fun and often clever, particularly the Jules/Vincent conversations, but I haven’t liked much of […]

Some short takes to avoid the major issues for a bit, and we’ll start with Dog Eat Doug because it did such a good job of puzzling me until the final panel.And, as I’ve said before, one of the strengths of this feature is that Doug remains a baby and Sophie is the one endowed […]

Betty has been touring Italy for the past month and a half, longer if you include all their preparation for the trip, but today there is a pause in the travelogue for a shot at the volks back home.Even on holiday on the other side of the globe and more than 2,000 years in the […]

Jeff Danziger speaks for me. I refuse to rant today. Why bother?This administration has been a series of “I told you so” moments, and I’ve got nothing to add to this latest example, except that I hope one day we see major bills once more in which some Republicans and some Democrats vote in favor […]

David Rowe, who, incidentally, was recently named Australia’s cartoonist of the year, gets right to the point of Dear Leader’s latest astonishingly sociopathic incitement of his brown shirt crew.Rowe specializes in making politicians look ugly, but this is a particularly ugly moment. It’s not just that Trump was tweeting out messages of hate from a […]

Zits brought a bit of a sigh this morning. When I moved from Colorado to the East Coast in ’87, I was driving a red 1971 VW van. Mine was a camper, but Jeremy’s is close enough that I always get a kick out of the strips featuring it.I’ve had good cars and not-so-good cars over […]

When Willie sets the standard for intellectual caution and rigor, we’re all in trouble.Here, he goes against the well-known Forrest Gump Principle, which is that “Life is like a box of chocolates and if you don’t know the code of shapes and squiggles chocolatiers use and are too busy, too proud or just too plain […]

I’m going to start with the heavy lifting and work my way to more fun stuff, and I’m grateful for Jeff Stahler for this one because it helps illustrate something that struck me yesterday.Some panelists and guests on “OMIGOD! THIS JUST IN! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!” — or whatever Wolf Blitzer calls his regular daily […]

Pros and Cons puts a spin on the idea of parallel universes, and it’s actually helpful, though I think most people prefer to think of utopian alternatives. I think the first time I encountered this concept — and I’m not calling it a “theory” because I don’t want to confuse fantasy with science — was either […]

Jordanian cartoonist Osama Hajjaj offers this commentary following the bombing of a Sufi mosque in the Sinai this past Friday.The futility of thinking militant terrorism can be confined to one place is part of the tragedy, though it is also part of the solution, given that public resistance to ISIS and similar groups can only […]

Dogs of C Kennel offers a thought in the midst of all the #MeToo controversy, and it’s one that I suspect a lot of cartoonists are pondering.At least male gag cartoonists who seek a laff and can’t claim to be using sexism “ironically,” which can be either a technique or a dodge for editorial cartoonists, depending […]