CSotD: The Gotcha Game
Rob Rogers’ cartoon is a good starting place today, because it’s not dishonest, but it’s definitely over-simplified and feeds into…
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CSotD: Self-Owns, Own-Goals and Unforced Errors
Mike Smith (KFS) offers a common though often dubious critique, that the Republicans are flooding us with criticism of the…
CSotD: Weekend Addition (mostly Division)
It’s always good to start with a joke, and today’s In the Bleachers (AMS) made me redouble my search for…
CSotD: July 4 in the Free-Fire Zone
Bill Bramhall depicts the Fourth of July in the New Normal, in which we can’t always distinguish the traditional fireworks…
CSotD: What did we know, and when did we know it?
There are a ton of ketchup cartoons this morning, but Jack Ohman gets the prize not only for having this…
CSotD: Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, 2022 Version
Burchard’s quote hasn’t aged very well, has it? The Republicans of today — no longer the “Party of Lincoln” —…
CSotD: Facts Not In Evidence, and vice-versa
UK cartoonist Steve Bright leads off this chapter of our ongoing discussion of Uvalde with a cartoon about Ukraine. …
CSotD: Avoiding the Unavoidable
Existential Comics strikes my mood perfectly. We didn’t read a lot of 20th Century anything back in the 60s when…
CSotD: While Democracy Slept (Part One)
Marc Murphy sums up the impending overturn of Roe v Wade, at least in its immediate significance. We’ll get into…
CSotD: Ridiculous, But Not At All Funny
Tom Tomorrow sets the stage today by extending the Republicans’ strategy of fear- and hate-mongering into the absurd, for the…
CSotD: The United States of Hooterville
RJ Matson keeps the matter of Clarence Thomas’s ethical failures before the public, which I think is important, given the…
CSotD: O Sanctions! Where are thy stings?
Michael de Adder declares sanctions a failure within hours of the announcement of the first full rounds, mocking Biden’s response…
CSotD: Corrections, Amplifications and Tomfoolery
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time, and John Darkow offers less of a commentary than a report: The bakeries contracted to…
CSotD: Watching the Sun Set
Pat Bagley borrows a well-known line from “1984” to point out the unspeakable lies being put forth by the Republicans,…
CSotD: Contrary Wise
“I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedledum: “but it isn’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so,…