Carmen and Winslow have been struggling lately to decide where they stand on various political matters. In its simplest form, as seen in today’s strip, they boil it down to whether we should feel guilty about being happy in times of misery?Is it naive, or is it wonderful, or can it be both?We shouldn’t be […]
The good news is that he hasn’t tried to declare the war all-but-over the way W did, or even the way Bramhall suggests he might. But it’s scant comfort, because at least when W did it, he was trying to fool us, and he did fool quite a few of us, though it didn’t last […]
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address tonight at 9 pm Eastern, one reason I miss living in Colorado, where news and sports came on at a decent hour. Winslow is right: 57% of Americans responding to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll rate the State of the Union as poor, with the 43% […]
Where to begin? Easy answer, thanks to Toro, who states today’s premise clearly. The next question is what to include, and in what order?We probably need one of those disclaimers, that this is entirely fictional and any resemblance etc, because none of this is Dear Leader’s fault.As he has explained, he has staff which stays […]
Hearst editorial page editor John Breunig asks, “Why are editorial cartoonists drawn to Donald Trump?” (or here). How would Dr. Seuss have drawn President Donald Trump? This is what I’m thinking as we launch a new feature showcasing political cartoons of the previous month. Satirists seem to be competing to see who can sketch the […]
This, unfortunately, is a good way to start the week. It’s unfortunate because, yes, that could be you being grabbed off the street, beaten, jailed and deported. As we’ve seen, you can even be a citizen. Heck, as we saw with the snatching of Ogalala men, you can have roots here further back than the […]
The world views with horror the killing of Renee Good, but Wilcox expands upon its significance by pointing out Dear Leader’s threats against Iran if it uses violence against demonstrators there. She has logic on her side in pointing out the hypocrisy, both in the shooting itself and in the government’s mullah-like denunciations of the […]
‘If seven maids with seven mopsSwept it for half a year,Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,‘That they could get it clear?’‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter,And shed a bitter tear.As noted here the other day, there has been a prodigious amount of black ink spilled on cartoons since the non-release of the Epstein files, but […]
This time of year invariably produces a flood of turkeys attempting to avoid the ax, but Hands breaks tradition and makes an actual point, based on Dear Leader’s pardoning of those who worked to overturn the legal results of the 2020 election, which matches the pardons he provided for the rioters who stormed the Capitol […]
We’ll start with a cartoon from Australia that suggests two responses from up here: One is “Glad we could amuse you,” since we have to live with the chaos she depicts. But that draws a second response of “Thank god you’re watching,” because we’d sure hate to have all this unfolding without witnesses.And if the […]
Sorensen is right. We get righteously upset about cruelty and stupidity and dishonesty … and then the fire dies down and it all becomes normal.The challenge we face as we slip into fascism is maintaining some level of outrage. If nothing else, our grandchildren will wonder how we could sit back and just watch it […]
I wish Kikkert hadn’t bothered adding a caption to this, since its meaning is clear, but I like the thought of helpless deportees being dumped off on a random desert island, because some of the other places we’re dumping them off are just as unable to sustain the people already there and every bit as […]
Landmark AI Copyright Win – Fair Use Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic […]
A sudden explosion in Trump Always Chickens Out references, caused by a sudden explosion in the White House press room because some nasty reporter asked the TACO how he felt about being called a taco.One of those things we warn 4-year-olds about: When you react like that, it just encourages them. So now there are […]
You can’t copyright a title, and, even if you could, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds would be in the public domain, since it was published in 1841. It is wonderful reading, with stories of the Crusades, the South Sea Bubble, the making of highwaymen into heroes and other follies, and I highly […]