So Mike Pence has traveled halfway around the world to launch a childish demonstration by failing to stand for the national anthem, and Brian Adcock notes that — however it plays for Dear Leader back home — rude manners don’t score well in the international community.When Dick Nixon was vice-president, he not only showed grown-up […]
This commentary from Ali Jamshidifar, an Iranian living in Paris, has been hanging around my files for awhile but each time I start to delete it as too old, my finger pauses on the button and I let it stay.Erdogan’s “olive branch” initiative is little more than a cleverly named but transparent attempt to allow […]
Kevin Siers strengthens my belief that a cliché is only a cliché if you simply trot it out so you can knock off early.The Rob Portman issue is, by contrast, an excellent time to quote Louis Renault, the corrupt cop from “Casablanca,” though I wish that particular expression were not so overused, because this is […]
Pardon me if I borrow a slogan from the 1968 May/Juin riots in Paris, but it seems we’re doomed to talk about Dear Leader’s stupid parade.As it happens, I can sort of avoid politics for another moment and still be relevant, because Bug Martini asks a question that is elsewhere being framed as an accusation.That […]
So while I was eating cake and enjoying a blogday party, all Hell was breaking loose, and cartoonists like Ann Telnaes were keeping on top of it.Much as I like this cartoon, it isn’t all that creative, which is not a slam on her but, rather, a commentary on the times.It’s not rote, but it’s […]
Eight years ago, CSotD launched with a pithy recommendation that you read Phil Dunlap’s “Ink Pen,” which apparently not enough of you did, since he retired the strip two years later. Although, in the course of moving the blog to a different provider a week later, I got the name of the strip wrong, so […]
Somehow, I lost track of what Ed Stein was up to, but recently stumbled over this and it is very much worth your time to read the whole thing.He’s not the first to draw a parallel between the sad fate of the SS St. Louis — the shipload of refugees fleeing Hitler’s Germany that was […]
Arlo and Janis comes the closest to my feelings about tonight’s Super Bowl, and, if you’re not a sports fan, stick with me here anyway.Like Janis, I don’t have a dog in the fight, but, like Arlo, I see it as a fun way to end the season at a time when I have nothing […]
Well, sure.Clay Bennett is correct that the Nunes memo turned out to be, well, a trumpery. And, in terms of what it says, it’s not going to stop that Magnificent Bastard from moving forward, doing his job and once more serving his nation.What the memo boils down to is that the FBI sought a FISA […]
This isn’t the best morning to be running this blog. The politics are coming hot and heavy enough that I can’t in good conscience simply feature funny comic strips, but everything remains so ill-defined that it’s hard to offer more than, as Winslow does in today’s Prickly City, a cookie.Well, there’s nothing wrong with Fig […]
While I was looking for something else — which you will see Sunday — I came across a stash of Rube Goldberg cartoons from 85 years ago.And not only was Rube Goldberg a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist best known for his zany invention cartoons (one might almost say), but he is the very Reuben whose name is […]
Kirk Walters notes the passing of Chief Wahoo, as the Cleveland Indians — with significant prodding from the Commissioner of Major League Baseball — put to rest their outdated, insulting mascot.Well, sort of — they’ll still sell Chief Wahoo gear. They just won’t have him on their uniforms and other official stuff, which is certainly […]
Jack Ohman gets the lead panel today largely for having done a cartoon before the State of the Union Address that did not assume he knew what the speech would say. I saw several that I suspect involved ouija boards and guessing and going to bed early.I had the NPR coverage of the speech on […]
Anne Morse Hambrock asks the right question, though it is less about what the Learning Channel puts on than why they are successful.That is, the Learning Channel has discovered that you can’t bring in viewers with interesting documentaries but you can do so by mounting a freak show. And numbers are the point, so out comes […]
Having appropriately devoted yesterday to the passing of Mort Walker, here are a few Sunday cartoons I might otherwise have run, starting with this hail-and-farewell from Piranha Club.Bud Grace is his early 70s, so I don’t begrudge him the retirement, but I’m certainly going to miss the strip, which appears to be petering out in […]