Edison Lee (KFS) offers me another chance to feel old, and, gosh, real life doesn’t offer enough of those.I agree with his dad that there are all sorts of electronic doodads that I don’t need, but there’s always that nagging sense that maybe the kids are on to something.I’m getting over it.Most of the magical […]
The giant shadow cast by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as Michael de Adder puts it, hangs over political commentary at the moment and seems likely to be a major factor in the upcoming elections, both at the Presidential and Senate levels, to which I would add that, while the House doesn’t have a role in selecting […]
Mark Streeter sums up the Mueller Report rather well, including that there was plenty of circumstantial evidence but nothing that absolutely tied the President into the Russian interference, except as a beneficiary.He’s right, and, while there is sentiment for getting Mueller in front of Congress to testify, I’m not hearing a lot of credible calls […]
Candorville sets the tone for today, and if Lemont and I share a cynical view of society, it’s at least a cynicism based on a sense that we could be a better place if we didn’t simply lack the will.I’ve seen a raft of black hole cartoons with this or that being dragged into it, […]
I’ll admit to having been sucked in completely by this Alex, because, while everyone in the strip is contemptible on some level, Clive had been painted as the victim in this ongoing divorce thread.For all the comical excesses of the characters, part of what makes this strip work is their lifelike nature, and I think […]
Okay, I recognize the cartoon character in this one, and I’m inclined to agree with Bill Day that the damage done is pretty negligible.However, a lot of that is due to the overlap with the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book, which comes out tomorrow but was excerpted and discussed in the Washington Post the day […]
Steve Benson notes that Trump has made a U-turn, and, suddenly, a lot of current political cartoons are outdated.I won’t miss the recurring Statue of Liberty images. It was an excellent way to show our rejection of America’s core values, and then it was a reminder and then it was just an indication that editorial cartoonists […]
Modesty insists I begin today’s exposé of nitwits with Maria Scrivan’s relevant diagram of how I use reusable bags.I’d do better if I could get them to the car, because both my co-op and my (usual) grocery store have signs at the door reminding you, which is okay if the bags are 50 feet away […]
Several cartoonists have used the image of Trump abusing either Liberty or Justice or Truth, but I’m giving Dan Wasserman honors on the metaphor because he doesn’t inject any element of light-hearted ridicule into his cartoon.Not to say the others found it funny, but there are times to ridicule the president’s preposterous lack of grounding […]
I felt like we’d had enough politics for a while and so was delighted to find a funny little cartoon about a rat …And, boy, is he right. Trump finally announced his awards for “fake news” and they don’t stand up to much examination, being, for the most part, mistakes the press quickly recognized and for […]
Let’s ease into the day with a Nick Anderson cartoon pointing out something we all knew: The man is a pathological liar.Permit me to elaborate:There are people like OJ Simpson or Jeff MacDonald who, under the severe stress of horror, respond by creating an alternative reality. That’s lying in the sense of telling a story […]
Drew Sheneman leads off by confronting the notion that lowering taxes will encourage reinvestment in a business.It seems like utter nonsense, but it’s at least a debatable economic theory.As long as we leave out logic, history and human nature.What is not debatable is the fakery of speeches from Dear Leader declaring that companies which have […]
Pros and Cons puts a spin on the idea of parallel universes, and it’s actually helpful, though I think most people prefer to think of utopian alternatives. I think the first time I encountered this concept — and I’m not calling it a “theory” because I don’t want to confuse fantasy with science — was either […]
As Barbie once said, “Math is hard!” and understanding economics is math. But I think Tom Toles breaks down the essentials here in more ways than one.There was, indeed, a point when my taxes could have been done on a postcard: I had no income except from a single employer and no kids at home, […]
It’s entirely possible that Dave Blazek was inspired by the same thing that made me laugh at today’s Loose Parts: Those sanitary wipes at the grocery store, which keep you from getting bubonic plague from touching a shopping cart.My solution is that, when the cart wranglers get a train of carts together, they should shove […]