We’ll start with a non-political overview from Pros & Cons, the commentary to which is, “I thought Stan would agree.”One of my few professional regrets is that I foolishly passed along the advice to consumers, “Call them and talk to them.” It was frequently presented by consumer reporters as well as industry sources as a way to […]

Guido Kuehn leads off today with a massive dose of “Who cares?”There was, at one point, a theory going around that Trump was some mastermind, purposely tweeting outrageous nonsense to distract us from the actual evil afoot.It appears now that he’s a lazy-but-aggressive imbecile who gets all his purported facts from Fox News (see yesterday’s blog), […]

Disclaimer: I didn’t watch the speech.I made an effort to listen to it on the radio but dozed off and on throughout it and the analysis that followed, so about all I really came away with was that, as David Rowe’s cartoon suggests, he stayed on script.And then this morning, as I checked the news, […]

Real Life Adventures made me squirm today because, yes, I used to know something about cars. My roommate junior year in college — my junior year in college, not his — was a mechanic and he’d have his buddies over after work every night, so I heard a lot about the topic.That was in 1970.There […]

We’ll start on the philosophical couch with an Existential Comics that you can enjoy even if you don’t know squat about Leibniz or even Karl Marx, because surely you’ll get the Freud parts. Go read the rest.To tell the truth, I remember Marx and even Engels, but I don’t know anything about Leibniz and I […]

Trump’s announcement that he will not be attending the White House Concubines Association Dinner provides a sort of Juxtaposition of the Day: (Trump) (Guido Kühn)I’ll give him this: He’s gracious in his tweet, the mark of a businessman who has been around the barn a few times. I wish he’d bring those social skills to […]

This week, Non Sequitur has had an “alternative facts” story arc going in which Danae tweeted that there would be a snow day despite no evidence to support the idea.It was amusing, but alternative fact gags are a dime-a-dozen and I wasn’t paying all that much attention.Until today’s wrap-up cracked the whip. Well played, Wiley. Not […]

Ruben Bolling has been awarded the Herblock Prize for 2017.I’m strongly on record as saying “Plaques are for Haques” and that awards are for people who need awards. I’ve also pointed out that Pulitzer winners get RIFed just like any other newsroom denizen who has been around long enough to have become expensive.But the Herblock […]

The basis of humor is reversal of expectations blah blah blah yeah, let’s not get into all that today. Sure, you could talk about today’s Reality Check in political terms and rant about people who voted for off-brand candidates or didn’t vote at all because, unlike the rest of us poor slobs, they’re smart enough to […]

This being George Washington’s actual birthday, as opposed to the three-day weekend, Frazz observes that he had one birthday that wasn’t a barrel of laughs.Which is true, but, then again, given how long, and often how badly, the war went on, it’s hard to fix on a date that wouldn’t have, in one year or […]

Let’s start with the really easy one: Karnak predicts that this Off the Mark is going to be forwarded to a lot of people today.Remember that old joke in which the dinner guest observes that the dog is staring at him, to which the response is, “You’re eating out of his dish”? Well, my dog has […]

Janis may think he’s a know-it-all, but I’d like Arlo to take over the world a little more, because I’m still confused every February over which holiday we dropped to make room for MLK. If we all called it “Washington’s Birthday,” that would solve the problem.Celebrating both Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays worked well because, with […]

As noted recently, I’m tired of politics and a little burned out in general, so I’m turning the blog over to a guest commentator today, and I’m sure it will be very well-handled. You won’t believe how well-handled this is going to be. Very well. Handled.His handling of the commentary will not be questioned. (Pros and Cons) […]

(Strange Brew) (Bottomliners)I really wanted to be non-political today.Not “apolitical,” because what thinking person could be these days? But I wanted to take a break after the last two days of heavy topics.So here’s a juxtaposition I found kind of amusing, though both cartoons are thought-provoking, if you’re the sort of person whose thoughts are […]

Much has been made lately of a cartoon that Glenn McCoy drew, which used the Norman Rockwell image of little Ruby Bridges being escorted to a newly-integrated Little Rock school by National Guardsmen in order to comment on protesters who tried to block Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from visiting a public school. The above mashup […]