The one thing all Americans can agree on is that Mick Mulvaney will be starring on “Dancing with the Stars” by Thanksgiving, which is better than sleeping with the fishes but then again much the same thing.Robert Ariail‘s cartoon is only one of several marking Mulvaney’s utterly bizarre press conference in which the only thing […]
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 […]
(Rip Kirby)(Big Ben Bolt)Call this the “Juxtaposition of Nagging.” Over in the Vintage section at Comics Kingdom, Rip Kirby is just starting a new adventure, while Ben Bolt is at the climax of another.Offering these classic strips to those who pony up $20 a year to subscribe is better than a tote bag and a […]
Deflocked sure won the Serendipitous Timing Award this morning.I was at the park yesterday with about a dozen dogowners and our pooches.Somebody had brought ice cream to celebrate a birthday and we were having a lot of fun until a woman showed up who had just heard the news of Kennedy’s retirement as she pulled […]
Bizarro gets lead position the day after April Fool’s Day because the only connection I have to the horror of bulk glitter is that moment, I think now passed, when greeting cards would disgorge a shot of little foil/plastic crap into your lap, which came across as a practical joke.It’s possible that girls thought it […]
Company Man gets top billing today out of sheer luck and good timing. I haven’t tried Halo Top, but I picked up a bag of Beanitos the other day.Beanitos is a bean-based Cheetos knock-off. I was on the road and just wanted something to eat in the car, and I’ll say this: If I’d picked up […]
(Andy Marlette) (Pat Bagley)Bagley and Marlette have some fun with the attempt to subvert Mueller’s investigation, based on the fact that two members of his team exchanged personal emails in which they expressed disgust with Donald Trump. And Bernie Sanders.And Eric Holder.And Martin O’Malley.And John Kasich.For which Mueller promptly fired the one who was still on […]
Mike Marland on a local story that about put me off the road yesterday.Yep, according to NHPR and a few other places, Steve Bannon is coming to the Granite State to raise money for a right-wing group, with the proceeds to “support training and support for local Republican candidates in 2018.”Presumably the ones they manage to […]
Darrin Bell’s familiar metaphor suggests solving the current situation is more difficult that we thought.Or not.But it doesn’t make it any easier.The notion that, by slowly turning up the heat, you can boil a frog without it trying to escape isn’t true, but it’s a useful concept, particularly if you add a little Orwell to […]
Scott Stantis continues his dark night of the soul with today’s Prickly City, which lays out our State of Disunion, and Carmen’s comment at the end is less a punchline than a summation.Yes, it’s come to this.Were you waiting for Fort Sumter? Pfft — That’s such a 19th Century way to kick off a Civil […]
Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]
Jack Ohman’s local cartoons are often more fun than his nationals, because he uses a multi-panel approach to eviscerate somebody on a topic his readers in Sacramento are familiar with.In this case, the topic is that a protestor smashed a pie into the face of Sacramento Mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson, and I […]
Robert Ariail gets the award for summing it up without going overboard.Summing up the actual announcement, that is. The impact and significance is a bit less straightforward, and there are all sorts of directions to take it.And most of them seem to have been taken by somebody or other, most predictably from the right, where the […]
Please, let’s start with the funny one: (Between Friends) (Zits)Between Friends has had a wonderful arc going that might be called, “Fine, Make Your Own Damn Lunch!” except she couldn’t quite say that. However, the first strip in the arc — complete with family friendly substitution — starts here. The arc is well worth the clicks.The […]
(Robert Ariail)NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader who earned the nickname “Fabulous Fab” was found liable Thursday in a fraud case brought by federal regulators in response to the 2007 mortgage crisis that helped push the country into recession. A jury reached the verdict at the civil trial in Manhattan federal court of […]