Bill Sanders makes the point graphically that has been under discussion here: Trump is not a baby ignorantly blundering into trouble but, rather, a defiant brat.And Ed Hall makes the further point that Trump is once more playing to his white supremacist base.I’m a little disappointed that the major coverage of the pardon simply states […]

Once again, Marian Kamensky takes advantage of the time difference between Austria and the United States to get his commentary in before anyone here can catch up.However, the Washington Post did hit the virtual street this morning with not only the facts of Trump’s Friday Night Special, but a bit of analysis and commentary as […]

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Whoo woo woo.”The Blob of Stupidity” is not to be confused with “The Cloud of Unknowing,” though there is something of a relationship, in that the latter is a mystical book of Christian philosophy which holds that, in order to know God, you have to stop trying […]

Here’s the thing about an eclipse, lunar or solar: There’s a lot of anticipation as it comes on, and then great excitement at the apex, but it takes just as long to fade away as it did to start up, and that’s more than a little anticlimactic.Nobody sticks around to say, “Okay! Look! It’s back […]

This Kal cartoon isn’t his most recent, but I’m breaking my own rule to feature it here because I’m getting whiplash trying to keep up with Dear Leader’s back-and-forth on how he feels about white supremacists.And I don’t think cartoonists should have to come up with new cartoons every time the President simply circles around […]

A bit of wrap-up while we wait for the eclipse gags to clear from the political cartooning sites … and another reminder from Brewster Rockit that the best dumb jokes have a smart base. Watching the eclipse by means of a smart phone turned out to be a bad idea, by the way: The lens protectively […]

The Argyle Sweater wins the “most thought required for a really stupid joke” award. There should be a term for the combination of how much time it takes to get a joke and how dumb it is, sort of …speed:velocity::funny:(new term)The problem is figuring out how to apply it. Some people probably got this right away […]

(Arlo and Janis) (Candorville/Rudy Park)We’ll start this morning with a Juxtaposition, because the notion that Donald Trump simply appeared in our midst, like Athena bursting fully-formed from the head of Zeus, is nonsense, and it’s nonsense to pretend that there was this unseen group of violent, psychopathic bumpkins hiding in the hills, the “Deliverance School […]

Nah, Randy, I don’t want to triple my dating pool. But, unlike Rudy in today’s Rudy Park, it’s not because I’m not that good a swimmer. It’s because I’ve paddled around in the muck enough, thanks.I may have to go back to a practice I followed during the election, of staying off Facebook until after […]

Tried to take a break from politics today. Fat chance.I’ve seen a couple of strip cartoonists post remarks about how it’s getting hard to just make funny drawings when everything is on fire, and even this cheesy pun at Bizarro has a political base.The problem is, how do you make jokes about ordinary, day-to-day life […]

Ann Telnaes sets today’s mood, and, while riffing on the Presidential seal is hardly revolutionary, this is the right moment and a good job, and she makes a statement that covers much that is being said.The other reason to have her lead off is that she’s the current president of the Association of American Editorial […]

Here comes the king,A body beneath a crown,It’s said he cannot even tie his shoes …That’s from a very funny play I was in, back in summer camp. I wish I remembered the whole song, because it’s been running through my mind recently and for earworms, as with the kind in apples, the only thing […]

I’m going to start off with the trivial, personal stuff, and, as I’ve said before, I could run all of Terri Libenson’s “College Search” cartoons from Pajama Diaries, because either she and I have some unique mojo or she’s simply nailing this one for everyone. I suspect the latter but would believe the former.I will […]

This morning’s Candorville appealed to me because I am very, very old, and a lot older than Susan or Lemont.I’ve had a couple of “boy are you old” moments lately, including last night when I went to a Charlottesville support rally at Dartmouth and remembered why, back in the Olden Days, I was a freak, […]

Lalo Alcaraz wasted no time in getting out his pens to satirize the “Whatchagonnado?” response that greeted the Nazi riots in Charlottesville.Dunno where that idea came from, unless it had something to do with this:”We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. […]