I really like Steve Sack’s commentary on the rollback of banking regulations.If you remember back when post-Depression banking regulations were first eased under Carter and Reagan, there was a lot of talk about how it was okay because they wouldn’t make the same mistakes that had been made in the 1920s. And we promptly fell into […]
What are we gonna do with this guy?His nonsensical insistence that law enforcement not look into lawbreaking and his posturing as an imperial power “demanding” their obedience is drawing forth think pieces about how “The Constitutional Crisis is Here” and comparisons to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre.Ann Telnaes makes the most dramatic (American) mockery of him, […]
When I can do a mix, I usually start with the funny stuff and then do politics, but somehow they’re becoming indistinguishable. Clay Jones has a most excellent rant to go with this cartoon, which is basically that Trump would rather talk to Fox & Friends than Mueller, but he can destroy himself in either […]
I wasn’t sure where to begin today, but Matt Bors offers a nice meld of the Facebook issue and our national governance crisis.Bors often depicts a level of something I’m hesitant to call “paranoia” but which is based on an assumption of purpose and intent that I think the world largely lacks. That is, people […]
I wouldn’t know where to start if Ruben Bolling hadn’t coincidentally snipped this bit from a previous Tom the Dancing Bug to run in his Super-Fun-Pak Comix feature today. Without bothering to research when the original, larger comic parody ran, this piece clearly is from the Trump era because it’s made up of things foolish […]
Bill Day on the reception the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas received from their elected representatives in Tallahassee. As you may know, the students from Parkland — or, that is, the ones who weren’t murdered the other day — went to the state capital to lobby the legislature to talk about gun safety, and the legislature […]
I don’t know why the funny comes in bunches, but it seems to be feast or famine around here and, while yesterday was a holiday, today is a feast day. So we’ll start with Agnes to which I have absolutely nothing to add. One ought not to gild the lily. Looking for Love in All the Wrong […]
Here’s the thing about an eclipse, lunar or solar: There’s a lot of anticipation as it comes on, and then great excitement at the apex, but it takes just as long to fade away as it did to start up, and that’s more than a little anticlimactic.Nobody sticks around to say, “Okay! Look! It’s back […]
Let’s start the conversation with Tom Tomorrow, whose overall analysis of the Trump administration pleases me mostly because it skips recurring, tired gripes to discuss overall strategies.He is noted for his year-end wrap-up specials and this feels like a mini-version. He doesn’t mention the 100 Day mark and it’s not clear he had it at all in mind, […]
To start with …… well, to start with, I like Dave Granlund’s cartoon because I think it probably says what he wants it to say, which is that Clinton has pneumonia, that she seems to have the situation under control and that it has political freight.I also got a kick out of Gary Varvel’s take […]
The blowback over Ann Telnaes’ cartoon condemning Ted Cruz for exploiting his children continues, and I suppose you could ask, had she gone Rob Rogers’ route and depicted the three of them as clowns, would the explosion have happened?And the cynical response is that Ted would still have risen up all butt-hurt and asking for […]
I’m glad I wrote about “compulsory cartooning” yesterday, because the news that followed a few hours after I posted is an example of an event so large that to not comment on it would seem either callous or clueless. I think I was able to write about the phenomenon more dispassionately without such a stark, […]