Dave Brown, staff cartoonist for the UK’s Independent, has been let go from the newspaper after 30 years. From Dave Brown’s X/Twitter account: The final cartoon; after just under 30 years and something over 6,000 cartoons @Independent are letting me go to save a few quid! Thanks to everyone who followed me and for all […]
Venables makes an important point: It’s not over. It’s not clear where we are now, but it is clear that all the same players are still present, and there’s no reason to think any of them plan to change their spots just because one crisis has been put aside. Sort of.In fact, German points out, […]
Ramirez captures the administration’s decision-making system, which is that there is no system and it all depends on how Dear Leader is feeling at the moment. It certainly seems like an odd way to run a country, but, then, it would be an odd way to run a casino or an airline or a university, […]
Wilcox sums it all up. Thanks for coming and don’t forget to tip your wait staff.However, there are several ways of explaining where we’re at, though the most cogent seem to come from overseas. Perhaps a little distance helps with the focus. Whether it works that way, clicking those links to see where the cartoonists […]
If you’ve ever been in a play, you know that after a rehearsal, the director gathers the cast and provides a list of notes on what went well and what could have gone better in hopes of improving the next run-through. Given the death of the paper in a major city, Bish’s use of the […]
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 […]
In case you missed it, and particularly if you didn’t, FIFA has capitalized on the clear path to success in the United States. On the eve of the World Cup tournament, they guaranteed something or other by creating a gaudy, ridiculous “Peace Prize” and awarding it to Dear Leader, whose country will be co-hosting the […]
This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, recently announced that it has a brand-new Peace Prize and strongly hinted that it will present it to Donald Trump on December 5 when they draw the matches […]
Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. They resent living paycheck-to-paycheck in a world in which CEOs make 285 times what they pay their workers. And, assuming there is no compromise by year’s end, they’ll resent watching the uber-wealthy […]
Understanding Trump’s complex relationship with Vladimir Putin begins with understanding Trump in general, and, as Danziger suggests, he’s not complex. He’s chaotic.Trying to oppose Trump is like fighting a drunk: It’s difficult not because he is any stronger or any more skilled than average, but because you have no idea what he’s going to do.There […]
Dave Brown offers the most generous take on Dear Leader’s tariff tantrum, in which he takes aim at the big bad world out there in his most America First way, but does more damage to Uncle Sam and his American constituents.It’s unintentional, but there it is: However random and nonsensical the tariffs placed on each […]
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 […]
Rain dampened, but did not discourage, demonstrators in White River Junction, where we lined the road through town and across the bridge into New Hampshire. The larger crowds were, naturally, in the larger cities, Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont and Concord, Manchester and Portsmouth in New Hampshire, but there were good turnouts even in the […]
We’ll start the rundown with a portrait of world leaders by David Rowe, with Donald Trump in the center and his babysitter at his feet. You may notice that it’s not a terribly flattering portrayal, but if you look around the world, you’ll find there aren’t a great many flattering portraits of Dear Leader.Much of […]
It’s a pleasant fantasy, to imagine each bizarre, disturbing development coming along in a separate day. If it did, we could brace for it as Katauskas suggests. But, of course, that’s not how a firehose works, though the unbearable daily terror she posits would be an improvement on the flood that actually occurs.As it is, […]