Steve Benson offers this take on a House bill that would forbid display of the Confederate flag in VA cemeteries. My initial response was that, while I agree in principle, I know of one cemetery that might be an exception: Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira, NY, in which are buried the remains of nearly 3,000 Confederate soldiers […]
I’m becoming discouraged about this topic, and now the past few days have seen a flood of cartoons making the same claims: Bernie Bots and Bernie Bros are going to hand the election to Trump.Well, except that it’s graduation time, so we’ve got a few “college is expensive and you won’t get a job” cartoons. […]
Rob Rogers comments on the new overtime directive. I don’t agree with his take, but the cartoon makes for good discussion.Specifically, he’s using the Will Rogers approach, which assumes that members of Congress are only working when they are at their desks debating and voting on things. The endless staff meetings to hammer out the things […]
Nick Anderson lays out the fairest commentary on the Democratic primary process that I’ve seen in recent weeks.It’s a mess, and it’s a self-inflicted mess. He avoids the cliche of the “circular firing squad,” which — lame lack of originality aside — matters because there is no other purported target as in that metaphor: They’re […]
Ann Telnaes on the unanimous non-decision-decision by the Supreme Court in Zubik vs Burwell, in which religious employers who oppose contraception objected to having to cooperate with the accommodation provided by the Affordable Care Act. Here’s the basic Scotusblog summary, and an interesting analysis to which they linked.She’s right that it does seem a bit, well, […]
David Horsey risks losing his hipster card by pointing out that Uber is just one more example of the gulf between workers and owners in the current economy, or, in his words, “a model that exemplifies an emerging new economy in which a few people get very rich and everyone else is a freelancer struggling to […]
I’m not really in the mood for politics today, but they seem inescapable, so I’m going to break format and start with this Dogs of C Kennel from yesterday, which made me smile because it shows what Mark Trail could be like if Mark Trail were a humor strip.Yes, turkey buzzards and vultures and some other carrion-eaters […]
In order to honor the Prime Directive, the opening rant will feature a non-cartoon to stand in for a couple I’ve seen that I’m not going to single out. Here’s the thing: When you get paid to do something, you take on a responsibility to know what you’re doing.A cook, for instance, who, asked to prepare […]
A follow-up on the “Childhood Heroes” arc from Betty, starting with a salute for using heroes from the current parent-generation and not from back at the dawn of time.Even Doc would be a hero from my young-adulthood, so, if you have to ask who Doc is when MJ’s name is in the mix, you might be […]
A generation ago, Abbie Hoffman joked that, when he stepped out onto the Moon, Neil Armstrong should have shouted “Drink Coca-Cola!” and retired a very wealthy man.I guess you’d have to explain that to younger people today, and Joe Heller’s cartoon about a Belgian-owned company capitalizing on our corrupted sense of patriotism is an apt, […]
Betty served up an interesting topic yesterday and today’s strip suggests we’re going to play with it a bit.Yesterday’s strip reminded me of a similar moment when I suppose there was spinach around and I said something about Popeye, only to have a granddaughter ask, “Who’s Popeye?”There followed a series of DVDs from Grandpa and, […]
It’s my blog and I can start with the cartoon that spurs a personal memory if I want to. Particularly if it has some vague connection to a more sweeping issue.Edison Lee has been running for Student Council President, and it’s been an entertaining riff on the current presidential campaign, but today’s unleashed an epiphany, […]
I’m with Jeremy on this one, and I’m sympathetic on a couple of levels that may or may not be related.First of all, a lot of kids don’t know baseball because they don’t play baseball.This is only a “When I was a kid …” rant because I’m a very old guy. It’s not just that […]
We’ll lead off the week with a couple of things that should prove interesting, the first of which is that Rina Piccolo is guest-drawing Rhymes With Orange this week.As Constant Readers know, I like Tina’s Groove, but Rina’s one-offs at Six Chix are the main reason I keep that strip in my feed, so I’m looking […]
Sandra Bell Lundy breaks through the moldy Mother’s Day cartoons with this Between Friends salute to non-average moms.Obviously, it helps that she had already created a non-average parental situation which had previously addressed a real-life issue, rather than simply settling into the Mom-Dad-Bud-and-Sis pre-fab cartoon model.My feed is full of strips that offer up gags […]