It’s becoming difficult to know friends from foes these days, and this Lisa Benson panel came through on a recent Counterpoint email asWhile Chris Britt‘s piece in the same email was categorized aswhich might signal a very good development, if cartoonists on both sides of the spectrum have decided that our next election should be decided […]
Perhaps the best way to lead off this topic is to direct you to Clay Jones’ site, where he shares various sketches and ponders aloud how to handle the President’s Covid diagnosis. I don’t particularly care for the somewhat celebratory cartoon he eventually came up with, but he explains his feelings in greater depth in the […]
I’ve held this Mike Thompson piece longer than I like to, but I’m going to use it now because it illustrates, perhaps by what it isn’t, a factor in much of what’s going on.Which is to say that I like it because of its depiction of AOC’s cheerful, stress-free, total obliteration of a bullying caveman, […]
I’m going to start out with the most challenging cartoon of the day, Bob Gorrell‘s commentary on the IG Report.Unlike the Mueller Report, this stuff is truly dense, such that the Executive Summary is more challenging than the fine print in most others. A quick reaction is impossible, and a more thoughtful response is still […]
Adam Zyglis offers a good jumping off place this morning, since, from here, we can go in a couple of different directions.The first is, of course, the arrogance of wealth combined with a sociopathic lack of empathy, and we don’t have to go back to Marie Antoinette to find a parallel. Though, to be fair, he’s […]
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Ed Wexler explains it all, again, clearly, for those who weren’t paying attention:Mueller testified to what was in the report, as he said he would.He was clear about this in the weeks leading up to his appearance, and he was quite clear about the limits of his testimony in the hearing itself:So why all the […]
There’s a lot going on in the world and it’s tempting to just throw some pies, squirt a little seltzer and take a break from it all, but, then again, we’re at a moment when not talking politics is in itself a political gesture.Still, we can take a moment to watch Mr. Fitz attempt to […]
Pat Bagley offers a rebuttal to Trump’s notion that it’s smart to avoid taxes, quoting not simply a great jurist but a staunch advocate for veterans. Holmes doesn’t get the credit he deserves in history books, but he’s known and quoted not only for his opinions from the bench of the Supreme Court but on […]
Chris Britt makes a simple point that I’ve been mulling over.The idea that mass shootings occur so often that we seem to always be mourning one or the other is nothing he came up with alone.Rob Rogers, for instance, offers this commentary on the futility, though using Obama’s repeated calls for action leaves open the […]
On the Fastrack is a syndicated comic with a pretty lively on-line presence, and Dethany, who began as an odd little goth admin ass’t has emerged, as minor characters sometimes do, into a dominant part of the strip, complete with her avian sidekick, Lenore.Today’s strip is a nice meld of the geek-basics of Fastrack with […]
(Arlo & Janis) (Anne and God)Let’s start the day with this Juxtaposition.Janis is right: Market forces determine what’s available. If nobody watched the violent, fear-inducing, division-creating, hateful crap on TV and in the movies, they’d stop making it.Arlo is right: Knowing that enough of our fellow-citizens enjoy this toxic garbage to keep it around is […]