Duke University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) posted an Emory Douglas anti-imperialism/anti-Zionism cartoon to its Instagram page that originally appeared in a 1970 Black Panther newspaper. The e-flier was used to promote a SJP event. Complaints about the nature of the cartoon resulted in Duke University suspending all funds and campus activities for the […]
We visit “Aquino,” Tom Tomorrow and Ruben Bolling, Patrick McDonnell, Lee Falk, and antisemitism.New Ripley’s Cartoonist Who is Also Mostly UnknownThe new Ripley’s Believe It or Not cartoonist “DeJoy“ has, after one week (February 23-28, 2026), given way to another new cartoonist “Aquino” beginning today March 2, 2026. A Ruben Bolling-Tom Tomorrow Funny Times Interview […]
“The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Well it is certainly taking its time, we’ll see which way it leans.From Ryan Hooper, Daily Mail Crime Correspondent: The former leader of the British National Party (BNP) has appeared in court charged with two counts of […]
Fiona Katauskas sets a familiar scene divided between old and young, which may be a stereotype, but putting the old fellow in a suit rather than Archie Bunker mode suggests another division, that between those who have and those who are still setting their goals.The parallels between the Student Strike of 1970 and the current […]
I’ve long since stopped featuring Santos/Pinocchio cartoons, since there were too many of them and they’d lost all impact. But I got a laugh out of Ed Hall‘s combining of the metaphor with the common “spend more time with my family” excuse. In fact, that lame explanation is as too frequent and as devoid of […]
It can’t get much simpler than Megan Herbert‘s illustration. We know what human rights are, and we claim to respect and revere them, and yet we consistently fail to provide them.It’s a bit like the way we save money: We know we should and we certainly want to, and we fully intend to and we’re […]
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) opens today’s conversation with the plain truth, in a situation in which truth seems anything but plain.The emergence of bigotry and hate in the wake of this sort of tragedy is predictable: It was obvious as soon as the towers fell on 9/11 not only that Muslims would be targeted by bigots […]
Cathy Wilcox cites a phenomenon as old as war itself, the need to objectify and make “other” our opponents in order to get past our natural reluctance to attack them. There are times it’s more obvious than others: My father, a WWII vet, remarked on the difference between the European Theater — where the enemy […]
Poor Edison Lee (KFS) finds himself in what seems likely to be a disaster: He misunderstood the teacher’s previous announcement and thought the upcoming test was on Chapter One, and a 30-minute test is hardly a pop quiz, so this matters.We’ll see how this turns out. There are kids who study themselves into a tizzy […]
To set the mood somewhat gently, an announcement: I compiled this array back when the Biden/Ice Cream meme first surfaced as a way of pointing out how foolish and unhistoric it was. In fact, I went back and documented that all but three presidents enjoyed ice cream, and those three may have liked it, too. […]
In case you’ve somehow missed it, today’s headline echoes a popular online comment, “Tell me you don’t understand XXX without telling me you don’t understand XXX.” It’s used as a snarky commentary when someone posts something totally off base. It is not a compliment.However, I’m featuring Pedro X. Molina (Counterpoint)‘s cartoon because he does appear […]
Ann Telnaes takes a more cynical, disappointed view of last night’s press conference than I do, but I find it hard to argue with her.Biden was thoughtful and sharp throughout the nearly two-hour presser, and I felt he exhibited candor, including his admission that he was likely going to break up the Build Back Better […]
I expected a certain amount of repetitive imagery on New Years Day, but the phrase “Out with the old, in with the new” hit on a level I haven’t seen since 1977, when the Gong Show did an entire show of people singing “Feelings.”Well, except that all of those were bad and some of these […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell has been letting his alter ego, Lemont Brown, ponder the Pulitzer.It’s funny stuff, in part because I share Lemont’s previously expressed view that plaques are for haques, and also because Darrin most certainly has won his share of Lucite, including the RFK award.And if you’d like to know more — and […]
(I don’t mind the time change, but I’m surely about to get tired of two weeks of people bitching about it on social media.)And on a related rant:Meanwhile, I went ahead and did my taxes yesterday, because I also am tired of the bitching about refunds vs. tax cuts, as laid out in this Scott […]