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CSotD: Pesky ol’ First Amendment

by Mike Peterson 6 comments December 14, 2017

Steve Sack gets the last word on this, or, at least, the last word here.As I suspected, the pages now are full of Roy Moore on his horse and Trump being upset. I’m pleased to see the hoopla, because I think the real significance of the election was that it will encourage people to get […]

CSotD: Moore was less

by Mike Peterson 8 comments December 13, 2017

One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]

CSotD: Seeking a one-eyed man

by Mike Peterson 2 comments December 12, 2017

Against all past tendencies around here, I’m once more highlighting a bland restatement cartoon, this time the other Tom, the Tomorrow one.I still think things have swung so far out of balance that simply restating what people say fails to capture the level of dysfunction, but on this topic, there is an utter cluelessness that, […]

CSotD: Mostly Apolitical Holiday Short Takes

by Mike Peterson 12 comments December 11, 2017

Arlo & Janis set the mood for this morning’s nearly entirely non-political posting. I’m giving myself some practical gifts this year, like new tires, and one of them was even a holiday surprise, because I didn’t expect my computer to start falling apart.But I’m with Arlo, and I think it’s Scroogey to balance your budget by […]

CSotD: Patterns, not incidents

by Mike Peterson 2 comments December 10, 2017

It’s all laid out in today’s Candorville.I started to say that I think a lot of guys are going through this mental inventory, but, in light of that last panel, let me switch it to “I hope a lot of guys are going through this mental inventory.”We all ought to be.We should be reassessing our […]

CSotD: This Time It’s Personal

by Mike Peterson 2 comments December 9, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: Weekend Wrap-up

by Mike Peterson 12 comments December 8, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: Getting up with the fleas

by Mike Peterson 10 comments December 7, 2017

 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 […]

CSotD: Black Humor, Dark Days

by Mike Peterson 4 comments December 6, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: Credibility

by Mike Peterson 6 comments December 5, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: Truth or Illusion, Donald? Truth or Illusion?

by Mike Peterson 10 comments December 4, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: No Hiding Place

by Mike Peterson 8 comments December 3, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: The Rant Not Taken

by Mike Peterson 4 comments December 2, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: “What is Truth?” becomes “Who cares?”

by Mike Peterson 10 comments December 1, 2017

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 […]

CSotD: Boy am I old

by Mike Peterson 6 comments November 30, 2017

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 […]

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