I’m not really introducing a new thing called “Follow-Up Friday,” but we seem to have a lot of topics hanging around, but getting new spin.I’ve seen a meme that mocks people who said they couldn’t understand Bad Bunny’s Spanish, saying that the Epstein Files are in English and people can’t seem to understand them, either. […]
Bennett’s commentary on Dear Leader’s interference with the election process is particularly apt, because, like the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, it has no legislative backing, came with no warning and represents an ego that has gone completely off the rails.It’s hardly the first indication that Trump is slipping a cog, […]
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a national strike going on today to protest ICE, with the slogan “No work, No school, No shopping,” and Matt Davies suggests some alternatives: A quiet walk on the beach alone, communing with nature privately in the forest or skipping a movie along with everybody else.Melania: Twenty Days to […]
Whoops. Accidentally said something we aren’t supposed to. But as long as we’re on the subject: I guess the reason we aren’t supposed to say “Watch out for ice” is that ICE will watch out for you, whether you want them to or not. I said the other day that it’s hard for cartoonists to […]
Good advice from one traditional figure of the new year to another. Some years, the editorial cartoons look forward to progress and improvements, but this isn’t one of those years and nobody has any grand expectations for 2026. It’s also traditional for killjoys like myself to point out that, while a few new laws have […]
By now you should have three partridges in pear trees, four calling birds and three French hens, or at least three notices from UPS saying they will be delivered tomorrow and will require signatures, in which case you should keep your eyes open because they’ll be left on the porch in the snow.Meanwhile, we’re getting […]
It is that time of year when cartoonists, newspapers, and websites pick their favorite (what they call “the best”) editorial cartoons from the previous twelve months. Here are some early “Best of 2025” collections. The retiring, but not shy, Walt Handelsman splits his choices into three categories: New Orleans local (or here) and Louisiana state […]
Bennett’s day-after cartoon would have been easy to nit-pick a year or so ago, because half of us wanted the exchange immediately while half of us were pleased, so using Uncle Sam would have been unfair.However, waking up on Boxing Day to find that he bombed another country and then spewed about 150 screwy messages […]
I don’t know how many times I’ve alluded to this, but if you’re never seen Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, it’s time you did, because the question of “truth and illusion” is currently far more relevant than it was 60 years ago. The drama is a cross between Theatre of the Absurd plays like Endgame […]
Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did not register with a political party. Granted, I was generally in sympathy with one over the other, but I never voted a straight ticket and some […]
Dennis Green is gone, but his rant lives on, not because it applied to a football game, but because it continues to apply to people who look a threat straight in the eye and decide not to see it.Green said what he should have said, but that’s what nobody ever says because we’d rather be […]
This time of year invariably produces a flood of turkeys attempting to avoid the ax, but Hands breaks tradition and makes an actual point, based on Dear Leader’s pardoning of those who worked to overturn the legal results of the 2020 election, which matches the pardons he provided for the rioters who stormed the Capitol […]
It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said should be hanged for having said that members of the military are not required to follow illegal orders.Advocating the law and reminding […]
Bravo to Konopacki for making intelligent use of a moment in Casablanca that has become an insipid cliché in other hands. Saying “I’m shocked! Shocked!” merely makes the point that someone is pretending not to have known something they certainly did, which, most times, is obvious. (Yawn)But Konopacki uses it in perfect context: In the […]
The Ol’ Perfesser, Casey Stengel, added to his fame by becoming the first manager of the New York Mets, who racked up 40 wins and 120 losses that year, prompting Stengel’s famous quote, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”It seems a good question at the moment, to which I would add another from his volume […]