An excellent piece by Telnaes that can be taken a couple of ways. Certainly, the brutality of the lawless attacks has damaged our freedom, but you can also take Liberty as a personification of the American people and those who wish to be American and interpret the attacks as happening to all of us.An eagle, […]
The countermeasures indeed do not seem to be working, though a cynic would suggest that the whole matter might fade and become yesterday’s news if Dear Leader would stop saying things that keep it front and center.After all, we saw a gunman kill a Minnesota legislator and her husband and shoot another legislator and something […]
Karoline Leavitt repeatedly says that this is the most transparent presidency ever, prompting the wisecrack from the left of “Yes, we can see through you.” And Leavitt herself is often cited as the most blatantly dishonest White House Press Secretary in history, not simply spinning the facts to put them in the most advantageous light […]
A bit of poetic license here: The tanks are in DC waiting to rumble past Trump’s collection of contributors in a Soviet-style display of macho goodness. They haven’t been deployed in LA, despite several Tank Man cartoons.I hope at least a few people know that Tank Man only slowed the tanks down for a moment […]
Heller addresses the matter of taking Donald Trump seriously but not literally. Some of what he says is clearly ridiculous, some seems unlikely, some is frightening. As the woman suggests, the combination forms an endless cycle of distraction.However, while he didn’t keep his vainglorious promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, some […]
There are so many cartoons about the death of Pope Francis that I had to make decisions, one of which was to lead off with a Nick Anderson piece that he did for Easter, before the Pope died. It’s one that could have been done any Easter, because we have become very good at giving […]
This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. ICYMI, our president actually said “An old fashioned term that we use — groceries — I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. ‘Groceries.’ It’s a bag with different things in it.”This is, of course, the same president who believes that […]
The new administration has made a move towards Truth in Advertising, or at least Truth in Tourism, ordering Washington DC to erase Black Lives Matter from the street, since they no longer do. They’ve also ordered the city to rename Black Lives Matter Plaza to Liberty Plaza or lose federal aid. Any time the word […]
I was planning to use Sheneman’s cartoon this morning for a rant about defeatism and how cartoonists are running up a white flag with cartoons about feckless Democrats when GOP majorities in both houses give them no real leverage. But then there was an opening, and Senate Democrats were poised to vote against cloture and […]
I’m picky when it comes to variations on the old fish-swallowing-fish concept. First, it needs to be applicable, and, in this case, it is: Trump has swallowed the Republican Party — as demonstrated by the confirmations of his unqualified cabinet — and Musk is clearly in charge of Trump, as demonstrated by that jaw-dropping spectacle […]
Even Edison Lee (KFS), though far too young to vote, understands what’s at stake tomorrow. I remember the anticipation and sense of helplessness in 1968, when we were, as the song said, “old enough to kill, but not for voting.”Lowering the voting age to match the draft age made sense, though — technical point — […]
Thanks for coming, and don’t forget to tip your waitress.Okay, I’ve got more to say, but Tom the Dancing Bug certainly did a lot of the heavy lifting, and I’d note his inclusion of a “temperature lowerer,” which suggests that this is a post-assassination-attempt effort or at least that Bolling added an edit before release. […]
There have been times when emigrating to Australia seemed like a good idea, but it doesn’t take a lot of reflection to recognize the futility. After all, Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach in 1957 and Stanley Kramer turned it into a movie in 1959 in which Australians waited for death to arrive in a […]
Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having burned out on the politics of the day, and finding nothing in particular amusing me anymore, I thought I would flail about a little and devote Fridays to the funny parts of the comics.I know that’s the wrong movie, but we don’t apologize in […]