Taking a brief, unplanned time out, but nothing too alarming — went in to ask the doctor about a pain and they admitted me at which point we entered that hospital world of foggy mental drift. So I’ve got a drain inserted to take off some accumulated liquid and will be discharged this afternoon (Friday).Should […]

This is going to seem like a short post, but you’ll see at the end there is some required reading that should soak up any time you thought you were going to have.Pearls Before Swine made me laugh because, back in the ancient days, we’d get calls in the newsroom alerting us to various days […]

I suppose we should start with the more metaphorical garbage on our agenda.Kal accuses the Clintons of sweeping their Foundation conflicts under the carpet, and the thing is, it’s less about actual corruption than about their being astonishingly tone-deaf.Bill’s offer to step away from the board if Hillary is elected would be a start, but not […]

I’m not a huge fan of the Olympics, which somehow went from elitist shamateur exhibit under Avery Brundage to the commercial gigantism that followed, though I’m not sure when I switched from being a fan to being vaguely interested to dreading the event.However, Robert Airial captures a factor that has run through that process, which […]

I wish I’d have had this Candorville yesterday to run along with the topic of media literacy, but here it is today and so let’s keep the dialogue going a little longer.Again, if your newsfeed is full of stupidity, it isn’t because the world is full of stupidity.Though it is, but it’s full of all […]

Let’s get the Aleppo kid out of the way early, Antonio Rodriguez Garcia having swept the category with this depiction.Melding his blank astonishment with the open-eyed naivete of le Petit Prince is brilliant because his story is less about him than about the questions he asks and the answers we offer.Plenty of cartoonists have adapted […]

Political cartoons aren’t required to be funny and it’s rare that they go beyond a chuckle, but Jimmy Margulies scores a genuine laugh today.It’s scary stuff if you take it seriously, but that only makes the joke funnier, because it adds to the “oh, what the hell” atmosphere.Margulies offers one of the few takes on […]

I’ll start with the fun, easy one: Bliss.I don’t know Harry Bliss (though he lives right next door in Vermont), but this has the hallmarks of a comic drawn from life.For one thing, another cartoonist has long since confessed to me that he used to sing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning” to his baby, so I’m […]

Over at Between Friends, Susan’s been obsessing over having been addressed as “ma’am,” yet another installment in her ongoing and seemingly permanent obsession over age and self-image. Having her vent to Maeve is perfect, because, while Maeve has a substantial package of insecurities, that certainly isn’t one of them.However, the whole “ma’am” thing apparently is pretty […]

Today’s posting is mostly a collection of other places you should go instead, but I’ll start with this Nick Anderson cartoon which, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, stands alone.And if you haven’t been keeping up with the news, go here and ensmarten yourself. And let me add here that the Daily 202 […]

Cartoon Movement features Portuguese cartoonist Vasco Gargalo’s “Aleppo,” an updating of Picasso’s classic “Guernica.”I’ll admit that my initial response was tepid, though I appreciated the historic parallel, in which the destruction of Guernica presaged the horrors of World War II.But the more I pondered that parallel, the more I liked it, so that, the second time […]

Between Friends introduces today’s theme of “self-image and self-deception,” and I wonder, not how many hair dressers will clip-and-post it, because it’s a natural for them, but how many will stick it up in the back room for their own amusement versus sticking it up where the customers can see it.One different between a barber […]

Here’s one page of a longer Lauren Weinstein cartoon about children and memories, and how nice it would be if we could ensure that our kids remembered the good things.Go read the rest; it’s not all that long and it’s worth the time.A hat tip to Sarah Laing for that, and hardly surprising, since it […]

I’m not sure what significance, if any, those “we cannot be held responsible” signs actually have, but Danae is intent on finding out in the current Non Sequitur story arc. The most common sighting in my world is in supermarket parking lots, where the store cannot be held responsible for damage done to your car by […]

Pat Bagley is hardly the first, let alone the only, one to mock the logical gymnastics required of Trump loyalists lately, but he did it well and that’s an important part of the task: Not just to have an idea, but to convey it.There is, after all, a “tree falling in the desert” element to a […]