We’ll start with a rare example of an artist beating the bureaucracy, with a hat tip to Bado for pointing out this WashPost article.The Postal Service wanted to feature the Statue of Liberty on a stamp. They found a nice photo of her and purchased the rights from Getty Images for $1500, then ran off […]
Arlo & Janis touches off a low-level rant, because I care more about this phenomenon on radio than I do on TV, possibly because I don’t watch a lot of TV.I appreciate that, in the Olden Days segment, he had the woman come in from the next room, because, if you were right there, phones […]
I mentioned the other day that, in eighth grade social studies, we learned the terms “log-rolling” and “back-patting,” from a teacher who also required us to know the members of the Supreme Court and of the President’s Cabinet, and, in the latter case, what their departments were charged with.It’s become a regular luncheon-speaker horror story […]
Let’s start things off with the Serendipity Award, as Rhymes With Orange drops this gag smack in the middle of a massive heat wave at least for those of us in the Northeast, which includes RWOHQ in Massachusetts.I suspect that, if you had a wax museum without AC, you could set up a pretty impressive […]
David Horsey avoided the two obvious approaches to Fourth of July cartoons: Those simply waving the flag and cheering, and those pointing out the various hypocrisies of celebrating at all.It’s almost as if he walks around actually talking to people instead of sitting in his cubbyhole absorbing and illustrating political rhetoric.The two little kids in […]
July 4, 1954, came just less than a month after Senator Welch spoke the famous lines at the Army/McCarthy hearings, “Have you no sense of decency?” All the talk about “Making America Great Again” makes it seem like a good time to take a look back at those Olden Days of Greatness on Independence Day, and […]
Rob Rogers finally tells the whole story over at the Nib, and it’s both fascinating and unsurprising. Go read the rest of it.There are elements of the story that should seem familiar, but it was, on the whole, outrageous enough that it’s a lesson in Where We’re At.Any time you have a change in management, […]
The best part of the 2018 World Cup is that the US team didn’t make it, so we haven’t had a lot of coverage and, thus, we haven’t had a lot of handwringing by Old Fartstm who feel compelled to hate the world’s most popular sport.It also means that I accidentally watched a really good […]
Yesterday was the opening of the “Cartoons from the New Yorker” exhibit at the Laumeister Art Center at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, and you really should have been there, because Bob Mankoff is extremely funny and wise and, in the space I’ve got, I’ll only be able to skim over a bit of what […]
There have been a flood of cartoons about the Capital Gazette murders, but Marshal Ramsey offers the sentiment that matters to me.I also like Liza Donnelly’s quiet, controlled tribute, because she didn’t overplay it, though she added a commentary that spoke of sorrow, which I appreciate, saying, in part: We don’t know yet the motive for the […]
Friday Funnies were never so welcome. For those just joining us, I’ve been posting humor-only on Friday, which not only gives me an excuse to use strips from the past week that didn’t fit into that day’s narrative, but provides one day a week when I do not have to gaze into the void in […]
Deflocked sure won the Serendipitous Timing Award this morning.I was at the park yesterday with about a dozen dogowners and our pooches.Somebody had brought ice cream to celebrate a birthday and we were having a lot of fun until a woman showed up who had just heard the news of Kennedy’s retirement as she pulled […]
I wasn’t planning to revisit the topic of civility so quickly, but here we are and I like Joe Heller’s commentary for a number of reasons, the first one being that the owner of the Red Hen is its owner, not its caretaker. So there’s a contrast right there.Another is that Heller distinguishes between denying […]
Mike Luckovich goes there.But it’s okay, and has been since Charlottesville, when the nazis declared that, yes, this is who they are, and Dear Leader gave them his blessing.And Godwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject are well worth reading.Now, in all fairness, Trump shouldn’t be expected to grasp the parallels, given that he is […]
In “Anne and God,” Anne Morse-Hambrock breaks away from the lighter questions she normally poses to confront the Deity with this more fraught issue.The obvious answer is to repeat the well-know koan of the two monks and say, “Put her down; I did a mile ago.”But, as she says, she already knows that the burdens […]