Kal Kallaugher looks ahead to the president’s tax reform efforts, which may turn out to be Trump’s last chance to keep a campaign promise.(We will now take a short break while you marvel over the facial expressions in each panel.)I suppose “keeping promises” is an outdated 20th century concept. Our hyperconnected, centerless world makes it easy to […]
Jimmy Margulies comments on the timing of John McCain’s surgery, which neatly saved Obamacare, as well as saving the GOP from another faceplant.My initial reaction to the announcement was that it was a put-up, that McCain purposefully scheduled the procedure to stall the vote, but I’ve since seen some analysis that indicates it was not […]
Darrin Bell’s familiar metaphor suggests solving the current situation is more difficult that we thought.Or not.But it doesn’t make it any easier.The notion that, by slowly turning up the heat, you can boil a frog without it trying to escape isn’t true, but it’s a useful concept, particularly if you add a little Orwell to […]
Ben Bolt hit me squarely this morning.To bring you up to speed, in this 1956 story arc (which I noted earlier came out at roughly the same time as “Rebel Without a Cause”), Ben has befriended a young hood who lost a leg in a game of vehicular chicken, and found him a job as […]
Someone recently said that the Internet has ruined April Fool’s Day by pummeling us with a constant barrage of untruths for no apparent reason.I had a friend who would cheat at anything, which made some less-than-admirable sense when he had his kids lie about their ages to shave money from ticket prices, but made very […]
Poor Carmen, the conservative half of the Prickly City duo, has been undergoing a dark night of the soul since even before the elections, in the course of which Scott Stantis brought in a sympathetic Bernie Sanders character and Carmen wound up working for Gary Johnson.Last week, she and Winslow, the liberal coyote, compared the […]
The only good thing about the GOP healthcare bill is the number of good cartoons it has inspired. Here’s a selection of what is a really good outpouring: I’ve been sympathetic to thoughtful conservatives lately, because they are in the uncomfortable position of, after eight years of scattergun attacks on a progressive administration, having to recalibrate […]
Today’s Prickly City is a good indicator of how Scott Stantis, one of the more thoughtful of the conservative cartoonists, is taking the Trump presidency.For the less thoughtful on the right, the approach so far seems to be “Oooooh, I hate libtards!” rather than confronting any actual issues.As noted previously, some are simply too lazy to put […]
Let’s begin with either a tip or a complaint: An increasing number of web sites, for reasons I cannot fathom, heap up a bunch of old material at their top, either on a deep “Showcase” banner or, in the case of Facebook, in the form of a collage of old pics.The result is that you […]
We’ll start today with a vocabulary lesson, ably illustrated by Jim Morin.There has been a lot of negative response to the one-two punch of Sean Spicer blatantly lying to the press and then Kellyanne Conway explaining that he was using “alternative facts,” and we’ll get to that in a minute, but what stunned me was […]
Yes, I agree with Soup to Nutz and am continuing my experiment of putting the blog together before I look at Facebook.So far, so good. Though Jeff Stahler got me a little fired up, because the topic of phony “therapy dogs” came up at the park the other day.I’m old enough to remember when people made jokes […]
Francis provides a final Christmas-themed cartoon for the year and triggers a good memory from back in my Catholic days.Until relatively recent years, you were required to attend the parish in your neighborhood and, since priests are assigned by the bishop rather than recruited by the parishioners, the match wasn’t always ideal, to say the least.There […]
The theme today, O Best Beloved, is blindness, as introduced by Jim Morin.Unless there is a Congressional inquiry into his Russian connections, we’ll never see Trump’s tax returns, learn about his business ties, find out about those Russian deals. And, even if his records were subpoenaed, there’s no guarantee.First of all, he’d claim executive privilege — […]
Non Sequitur offers an editorial comment in the main comics section, which upsets a lot of people on general principles: They want to keep politics on the editorial page and reserve the funny pages for funny stuff.Which, granted, the current situation isn’t.But, as Bernie and Phil point out, Trump didn’t stay over in the silly […]
Friend-of-the Blog Brian Fies has created a on reflection heroism, on one hero in particular, and on one anti-hero in particular. It is short and worth your time: Go read it.As it happens, I just included this bit of Lou Grantly wisdom for the young writers I direct in the job that pays my rent: Editor’s Note: […]