I’m in Colorado, where, as you perhaps have heard, they recently legalized marijuana, or, as the “potheads” call it, grass, pot, boo, gage, rosa maria, tea, shit, weed, mary jane and/or dope. Which is not what I’m out here for, but the relentless Rocky Mountain High and Doritos cartoons with which we’ve been bombarded did make […]
Chan Lowe knocks one over the fence.I’ve got nothing to add, except to applaud not only the political hit but the subtlety of the Capt. Renaud reference. Not that it quite fits the overused “I’m shocked! Shocked!” quote itself, but he picked up on the bland indifference to morals and consistency that makes the moment […]
I don’t know what to call this Zach Weinersmith strip (of which this is only the first panel), because it looks like Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal strip but it’s over at Matt Bors’ The Nib site, and there’s a different strip up today at SMBC. So I guess it’s an exclusive for the […]
First, the weather:I would note that neither Rick Kirkman nor Jerry Scott live in a part of the country that actually sees much of what I would call “cold weather.” We’ve been grazing 20 below (Note to overseas readers: that’s F) this past week, so today’s Baby Blues is a nice bit of timing.On one […]
… and the “snow means global change is wrong” cartoons are flooding in as they do each year at this time … but let’s talk about other things people should learn in middle school … Big Nate goes after a fairly fat, slow-moving target, but one with particular resonance for me.My pay-the-rent gig involves assigning and editing […]
(Joel Pett)(Jen Sorensen)These takes on Rand Paul have been on the pages of Jen Sorensen and Joel Pett for several days and on my mind as well.I’ve wanted to feature them but wasn’t sure what the mutual resonance was and didn’t want to simply plop them in as a “Juxtaposition of the Day.” I […]
I always appreciate it when a cartoonist allows me to vent about something without violating the Prime Directive. Thank you, Mr. Fitz, for allowing me to be positive about this insider take, rather than give in to the temptation to run, and then rip down, a bad cartoon on the topic.Here’s the deal: First of […]
Tom the Dancing Bug starts the year off with a heartfelt plea for cooperation from Big Brother.My growing anger over the violation of the Fourth Amendment and the social contract in general, and my growing distrust over the Official Story, is beginning to overcome my indifference to the spying itself, which means the timing for […]
Let’s join the New Year’s Eve 1913 party, already in progress over at Bud Fisher’s. (There will be lots of clicking to get larger versions today, by the way. On my computer, Chrome allows scrolling down on those pull-outs, Firefox does not.)Nice of him to apply labels. A lot of familiar faces, but not all […]
I’m using this cartoon because, in it, my little pal Edison Lee sums up my feelings about New Year’s Eve.Also because I think it’s the only syndicated cartoon in the universe that didn’t do a New Year’s Eve gag about falling asleep early. Reading cartoons about falling asleep on New Year’s Eve is kind of […]
Interesting cartoon by Steve Kelley, for several reasons.Kelley skews right of center, but he’s not out at the edge. The true right-wingers, by contrast, have been parading Obama’s low approval ratings but absolutely silent about the abysmal numbers the GOP has been getting in polls.The “approval ratings” story is that voters are angry with everyone, […]
At the risk of dwelling too much on my ever-present anxiety over whether I’m just old or actually stupid (scroll down to yesterday’s post), I was really pleased to see the new Scenes from a Multiverse today, below which Jon Rosenberg comments, “If you’re interested in keeping your money in a form that can drop […]
Today’s Dilbert doesn’t exactly give me hope, but it at least reassures me that I’m not alone.I can’t always tell when I’m just being an old fart and when the young punks are actually running wild, but we’re nearly two months past the point where Google killed off the iGoogle homepage so they could push […]
Let’s start today’s mixture of reality checks with thankyouthankyouthankyou Wiley Miller, the only cartoonist, it seems, willing to pull back the curtain rather than to reflexively accept “delivery drones” as something non-ludicrous.It seems bizarre that the flood of tiresome, repetitive drone cartoons have all been predicated on the idea that the pipe dream Jeff Bezos […]
I’ve seen a couple of cartoons that riffed on the wall dividing Bethlehem, and then saw a report on Al Jazeera America about the stress the town is under. It reminded me of when I used to do a weekly educational feature on political cartoons, and, specifically, of this piece from December 28, 2005.Normally, I’d […]