(Pajama Diaries) (Pros and Cons)One of the courses I took in college was called “Ways of Knowing,” thinly disguised metaphysics I filed in the “I say it’s spinach and I say to hell with it” category, but all our courses within the major were required, so my opinion didn’t matter.However, about second semester senior year, […]

I was thinking yesterday that perhaps it’s too late for editorial cartoons, that there’s no point in debate because nobody’s listening, here under the snowflake flag in which everyone is constantly offended and nobody is happy and, in the words of my elder sister possibly just before I became her little brother, “Everybody always be’s […]

Today is Canada Day, and so we’ll salute our neighbors to the North on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation or perhaps not, as Michael de Adder suggests, given that only parts of Canada confederated on that date.However, that’s when they mark their start as a nation and, on the 100th anniversary, they […]

(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)I don’t have a lot to share in the way of editorial responses to yesterday’s ghastly display of tasteless piggishness on the part of our president, but here are two approaches we can discuss.Marlette simply expresses the disgust decent people feel over Trump’s outrageous lack of self-discipline and self-respect, and it’s hard […]

Michael de Adder wins today with this explanation of Trump policy, which combines childishness with randomness and you can’t do a whole lot better than that. Several cartoonists picked up on the phony Time cover. I like John Branch’s take because it not only references the fraud but notes the hypocritical attitude of a president who […]

Let’s start with Nick Anderson’s commentary on the Senate Healthcare Bill. It’s colorful and it cracked me up and Mitch McConnell running away with his pants on fire is not only funny but a nice alternative to the Brer Tortoise personna most cartoonists have adopted for him. (Perhaps the royalties from that are why Jon Stewart […]

Tom Richmond broke the big news in cartooning yesterday, which is Mad Magazine’s naming of Bill Morrison as editor.Mad has been not so much in a tailspin as in the center of a lot of speculation after DC decided to move its offices from New York City to LA.In my opinion, this move would have […]

(Kevin Kallaugher) (Adam Zyglis)A critical juxtaposition today, with two good cartoonists getting it right from slightly different perspectives. I give Zyglis an edge in term of persuasion, but that comes with a lot of footnotes.Kal is correct in that the net effect of the Republican reforms is to drain resources from the poor (and middleclass) in […]

Today’s Reply All got a laugh in large part because I can’t imagine requiring a house meeting in a household with only two people, which I think was the point.One of the things I like most about this strip is Drew’s no-drama way of dealing with Lizzie’s drama-every-day needs.It also connects to one of the […]

Back in the early-mid-80s, I did an interview with a TV station manager noted for his three-minute editorials on the news, who pointed out that he had a lot more viewers than the station across town that had a weekly, 30-minute public service Sunday morning program called “Involvement.””Involvement?” he said. “Have you seen the ratings […]

Mike Smith offers one of the less defeatist takes on the Republican victory in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.When I commented on it earlier, I said I wanted to see the turnout figures and, in the comments, Ignatz cited the general swing, which isn’t quite the same thing but certainly suggests that a whole lot of […]

One of the constant annoyances in newsrooms are the phone calls from people demanding coverage for National Asparagus Month and other similar events. Our city editor at one paper had a list of all these ridiculous non-holidays and it was pretty funny reading, but not so funny when you were trying to placate an angry citizen […]

Best of the Day goes to Susan Camilleri Konar at Six Chix.Simply having a comments section forming would be funny enough, but what really ties it into social media is the fact that nobody has taken a tab.Everyone is eager to express an opinion, nobody steps up to help.I’m sure none of the comments are […]

Note the signature down at the bottom right of today’s Rhymes With Orange.Hilary Price has always been honest and generous about adding to the byline when she got an idea from someone — I’ve even had my own shout-out for a gag.But this is diffo: Rina Piccolo — who has taken the strip over on […]

To continue yesterday’s conversation a bit, Retail comments upon the ghosttowns some malls have become, and I find my sympathy somewhat muted, given that most mall tenants are corporate chain stores that offer crap jobs at minimum wage and send their profits off to Wall Street.Or they used to be, anyway.I gather that enclosed malls […]