We’ll start today with the front end of a four-day weekend with this Doc and Raider salute to Canada Day from friend-of-the-blog Sean Stephane Martin.The four day stretch between July 1 and 4 was a big deal when I lived in Plattsburgh and I assume still is. We were less than an hour south of Montreal, but […]
(Clay Jones) (Jim Morin)I don’t suppose we’ll ever close out Benghazi, but let’s start the day with a juxtaposition that shames the exploitation of the Benghazi dead in the service of partisan foolishness.Rob Rogers points out the waste and the committee’s desperation to find something they can claim as a payoff. As noted yesterday, a couple […]
Jack Ohman on the $7 million blockbuster.I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan, but she had two moments in the past year that really impressed me. One was her speech in San Diego in which she eviscerated Donald Trump, the other was her calm, composed testimony in front of the House Committee on Partisan Fishing Expeditions.In both cases, […]
Just for fun, we’ll go in order of dumbness today, and, when it comes to dumb jokes, Wayno often leads the pack.Don’t get me wrong: I like dumb jokes, but I like them done well, and there are a million ways this joke could have been done badly.Instead, by not actually telling the joke, he […]
The Brexit cartoons are really rolling in now, and I wish that meant that I felt compelled to do another roundup.Instead, I feel compelled to salute Dan Wasserman for having done his homework and then making a coherent point. I wish I had been compelled to sort through more like this.I recognize that some political […]
I’m feeling a bit burnt out on politics this morning, but can’t let this Matt Wuerker piece go out of date without featuring it. There have been a number of cartoons mocking Paul Ryan’s dismissal of the sit-in as a “publicity stunt,” as if the Republicans haven’t engaged in publicity stunts of their own, like repeatedly […]
Rhymes with Orange leads off today with a cartoon based, IMHO, on the joke that “Is this a good time?” is sort of like “How are you?” It’s not an actual question so much as a greeting.The difference being that, if someone says, “How are you?” and you actually answer the question, they’re obligated to […]
Start with the personal one: Carmen is bailing out on her newspaper job over at Prickly City, and it’s clear that Scott Stantis knows the current state of the industry.When I told my boss I was quitting my job at a chain-owned daily, back in 2006, he congratulated me on my escape to a personally-owned […]
South African Brandan Reynolds posted this look at the little teapot, short and stout, before voters tipped it over and poured it out, and Americans might pay attention to what he suggests was brewing in there. The view from another colony was no more cheerful in the run up to the vote, as Kenya’s Victor Ndula […]
Bug Martini has been on a roll lately, and his analysis of the upcoming Rio Olympics put me on the floor.It’s been years since I’ve given a damn about the Olympics. FIFA is more openly corrupt than the IOC, but at least when they stage a World Cup, you get to see the games.If TV […]
Bug Martini brings back memories of working at small newspapers, where IT was provided by outside sources rather than our own people. Not that, as this classic (1998) The Norm noted, your own internal techs couldn’t leave you standing around while they played with your computer.But at least they knew what it was supposed to do […]
Baby Blues is well-poised to touch off a barn-burner — but not a book-burner — of a rant today, which may be more about my day job than this extensive sideline as a comics fan. I’ve worked with kids and reading and writing for nearly a quarter of a century, and the issue of “age appropriate” […]
I think school is out most places now. Both “School’s Out” and “Back to School” cartoons have a problem of timing, since the actual events can vary by about a month depending on location. But they also have a problem of “same old same old,” and Deflocked sidesteps that today with a gag that goes beyond the […]
Chris Britt makes a simple point that I’ve been mulling over.The idea that mass shootings occur so often that we seem to always be mourning one or the other is nothing he came up with alone.Rob Rogers, for instance, offers this commentary on the futility, though using Obama’s repeated calls for action leaves open the […]
Matt Wuerker got caught up in a bit of irrelevantly inaccurate reporting the other day.As a comment or two on his cartoon gleefully pointed out, the weapon used in the Orlando shootings was not, as originally reported, an AR-15. It was a Sig Sauer MCX.Which, as that linked article suggests, raises the important question: “So what?”Another […]