Signe Wilkinson sounds a warning from the Detroit bankruptcy, in which the court ruled that the city’s pension obligations could be part of the negotiations, which, she notes, should scare anyone on a public pension these days.Well, yes. And I am not a lawyer,but I don’t think even the lawyers are going to have a […]
For the most part, an “interesting” strip that doesn’t make me chuckle is unlikely to get top billing here, but Candorville is often a fairly straightforward piece of social commentary and since — other than his grammar-nazi issues — Darrin Bell generally mirrors my thoughts, well, here we are.(Holy Serendipity, Batman! What an opportunity to point […]
Here’s today’s Candorville, in honor of the fact that it’s been five years since I took on a job that lasted about six months. Before I accepted the job, I asked my prospective boss how the then-new recession was hitting the paper and he assured me that things were just fine, that a community with […]
The river of Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman cartoons should begin flooding in any time now, but my expectations are very low and I’m not going to wait to tackle the topic.Besides, I like Daryl Cagle’s take: It’s not only simple and clean, but doesn’t over-reach. Nice piece of wordplay, too.I doubt anyone’s going to top it […]
It’s been four years since I lost my last full-time, ass-in-the-chair job, which means I can chuckle instead of wince at today’s Candorville.These days, the question isn’t “how long will I last in the job?” so much as “how long will the job last?”Technically, I was canned a few weeks before the paper I edited […]
For those who missed it, Maryland vs. King concerns a man arrested in 2009 for menacing a group of people with a shotgun. Upon arrest, his DNA was taken and fed into a computer, whereupon it was matched with the DNA of a rapist in a 2003 case, for which crime he was subsequently convicted.He […]
One of my favorite kinds of joke is the kind that plants a naughty, inescapable giggle, almost like an ear worm, so that it pops up every time you see the trigger.I don’t find the stick-figure families on the back windows of cars all that obnoxious. It’s not bragging, like the honor-role kid stickers, or […]
In today’s Candorville, Lemont addresses the matter of “executive orders” with a pretty reasonable explanation: Facing a hostile, do-nothing Congress, maybe Obama is forced to issue more executive orders than other presidents.I like the explanation and I think it’s something conservatives should consider.Because they’re not likely to be swayed by someone pointing out that, in […]
Indeed.The ideal news story today would be if Kate Upton took an unscheduled drink of water while stranded on a cruise ship that was buzzed by a meteorite. And, if none of that happened, we could fall back on coverage of Honey Boo Boo.I gave up on NBC Nightly News when they started doing features […]
Daryl Cagle, he of the political cartoon aggregation site, uses the term “Yahtzee” for the times when multiple cartoonists simultaneously come up with the same idea. Or, if it is a weeping Statue of Liberty in the wake of tragedy, the same non-idea.And it is indeed rare that a true Yahtzee — five of a kind, […]
Darrin Bell (perhaps) unwittingly hits closer to the mark than he expected in today’s Candorville.I say “perhaps” because I don’t know his intentions. Maybe he wanted a ton of hate mail and thought he saw a path. If so, it was a path well chosen.Except it’s not hummus. It’s falafel.There is very little in the […]
Candorville is close to being a political cartoon, in that Darrin Bell spends equal amounts of time provoking thought and telling jokes. Today, however, he is letting his geek flag fly, as he often does.And — unintentionally perhaps — proving that we will never invent time travel unless we completely and absolutely change our society first. […]
In Candorville, Darrin Bell uses a multi-panel approach to commentary as well as, and generally better than, anyone else out there.His use of understated conversations rather than pious lecturing is very effective. By setting up the incongruities and then letting them dangle in the air, he forces the reader to finish the point, and engaging […]
Our Constitution gives us the right to free speech. It is true that no freedom is absolute and is subject to certain reasonable limits but, at the same time, it is also true that the freedom of expression cannot be curbed at the flimsiest excuse.Yet, over the years, an atmosphere of intolerance has been created […]
I was kind of hoping to lessen the political stuff in the mix, but today’s Candorville is irresistable.Darrin Bell must have some short deadlines, but, in any case, he rolled the dice and won with this one, since Cain has not yet manned up and faced the situation. A fine, fine job of anticipating the […]