Major Strasser: Captain Renault, are you entirely certain which side you are on?Louis Renault: I have no conviction, if that’s what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.Tom Tomorrow unleashes a torrent of nonsense, almost entirely things Donald Trump never said, but much of which echoes […]
As you see, the pushmi-pullyu illustrated by Dr. Dolittle author Hugh Lofting didn’t look much like two llamas sewn together, and the Doctor, seen at the right, looked more like W.C. Fields than Rex Harrison, but Dab Dab the Duck asked the relevant question, which people around the world have been asking about the pushmi-pullyu […]
Yesterday was VE Day except in the United States, where it was “Victory Day For World War II,” according to our president, who celebrated by posting this image of marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, a hill just west of Berlin that was named for German composer Johann Sebastian Suribachi.Or maybe, just maybe, Dear […]
Among the many things to be pondered as we approach 100 Days since inauguration is whether the First Couple even talk to each other. Melania, who varies her housing among New York, Palm Beach and the White House, was elegantly and appropriately dressed for the Pope’s funeral, while Donald stood out nearly as much as […]
Tom Toles played on Trump’s call for Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton’s computer, a 2016 campaign ruckus that began when it turned out she’d set up a computer at home on which she did some State Department work that should have been confined to government servers.Although it was a private server and not just […]
Martyn Turner gets to lead off today on the basis of simplicity: Trump is helping Putin to raise the flag of Russia over Ukraine. Extra points for using a symbol of American heroism to mark a moment of American betrayal.You would think, if the Trump administration were going to advocate giving Russia a slice of […]
Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a few better poems but not many better quotes.It’s gobsmacking for one portion of the population to hear the utter nonsense, toxic lies and frightening promises of the past week, and then see […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America.It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But his […]
This is one of those “Where do we begin?” moments. The torrent of horrifying, dishonest, ridiculous nonsense that has poured out over the past 48 hours or so seems overwhelming, and I ended up with so many links to so much argumentation that I had to sort through them to come up with a reasonable […]
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) isn’t the only commentator who appears trapped in a mutual admiration society, but his donkey’s remark makes a perfect starting point, because I would dispute it.While the Chattering Classes echo outrage over the pardon, if you look at the comments, on stories, on columns, and on cartoons where comments are permitted, you’ll […]
Rabbits Against Magic addresses a current Sophomore-Dorm-At-2-AM plan with the only way this silly idea might be worthwhile.There seem to be a lot of SD@2 plans floating around on social media, and as much as I appreciate idealistic concepts, and as much as I favored lowering the voting age to 18, there are times I […]
Dana Summers (Tribune) shows what happens when you only watch Fox News but not, for instance, when they carry the debate between Trump and Harris, in which she explained her position on Ukraine, as she has several other times. To which I would add that, if she has repeated her stump speech often enough that […]
There have been times when emigrating to Australia seemed like a good idea, but it doesn’t take a lot of reflection to recognize the futility. After all, Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach in 1957 and Stanley Kramer turned it into a movie in 1959 in which Australians waited for death to arrive in a […]
Ted Rall was hardly the only person who, in 1995, pointed out that Bob Dole was old. And, compared to his opponent in the 1996 election, he was, given that Clinton was 50. Clinton was also the incumbent, but I felt at the time, and still believe today, that Johnny Carson’s flood of “Old Bob […]
The observation in this Jeff Stahler cartoon would be obvious any other time, but it’s important at the moment. Evaluating it depends on whether you consider everyone having a voice an example of equality or one of leveling, because when the greatest wisdom is placed next to the greatest folly, it puts quite a burden […]