First Dog on the Moon touches on several points, beginning with how stories get assigned, but you’ll have to go here to read the whole thingMost newsroom people at daily papers work from just after lunch until roughly 9 pm or so, which means that, for the most part, they only know each other, since […]
A bit of political catching up, and Ann Telnaes expresses what I hope is a wider frustration with the lack of accountability for the architects of the insurrection.There was a fair amount of frustration over the fellow who only got eight months in prison for his part in the uprising, and it’s understandable in that […]
Ann Telnaes is hardly the only cartoonist to show people — particularly Republican politicians — wearing their covid masks over their eyes, but she does some of the best caricatures in the business and keeps up with Who’s Who in Washington.And she doesn’t insult your intelligence with labels. She assumes you keep up with the […]
2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? — Ezekiel 18 David Horsey’s 2002 cartoon applies as well 19 years later, though today we speak of missiles, not individual terrorists or tanks.Details change, the Middle East […]
Political cartoons aren’t supposed to be funny except when they are, and I got a laugh out of Cathy Wilcox‘s piece, though I recognized the serious point behind it.It is, of course, a double criticism, of America’s erratic policies and of Australia’s response, and I’m betting that not all her readers at The Sydney Morning […]