For some reason, I’ve managed to stumble across a bunch of cartoons, each of which amused me, none of which triggered a major rant.You’ll have to get by today with a series of minor rants. Be strong. A few roses grew out of the steaming pile of ACA commentary today. Drew Sheneman sums up a […]
Couple of quickies before we get to the hard core issue of the day:Two minds with but a single thought: This pairing ranks as one of the more odd coincidences I’ve seen on the comics page lately, since I haven’t seen anything about bananas in the news or rocketing around social media. I’m kind of […]
Whatever you think of the situation in Syria, and what the US response should be, and whether you think the US should respond at all, there’s almost certainly a cartoon somewhere on the topic that you’ll agree with. The gang is all over the place on this one.I’m leading off with Drew Sheneman’s offering, because […]
Drew Sheneman with a commentary that matters, but seems a generation or so too late. That teacher, and the parents of those kids, grew up with corporations already well-entrenched in the classrooms. Sheneman himself, who graduated from college in 1998, might have seen the tentacles stretching in, if he’d been in the right school district […]
Boswell: “So, sir, you laugh at schemes of political improvement?”Johnson: “Why, sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.” The Republican Party got a large dose of bad news this week, and Mike Luckovich is one of several cartoonists to comment on it.The GOP actually got a large dose of bad news in […]
Drew Sheneman with a worthwhile comment on the meat scandal.He’s got a point, of course, and one branch of the vegan movement has to do with the moral/emotional implications of eating animals. Sentimental stories of 4H projects and Wilbur the Pig aside, farm children have for centuries come of age by learning to differentiate between […]
Drew Sheneman’s Congressional puppy not only draws on the popular Dog Shaming meme, but ties in with a link-and-conversation I had on Facebook yesterday with Owen Dunne. Owen posted this link to an article about research on how on-line comments undermine the content of an article, and, specifically, work against people learning anything about science. I […]
There have been a lot of responses to the NRA’s response to the Newtown shootings, and it’s been interesting to see both liberal and conservative cartoonists reject the group’s reasoning. Predictably, some on the left are in the “Guns Are Inherently Bad” camp, and their semi-hysterical response really only feeds the fear of an already-paranoid segment […]
I suppose I was in elementary school when “Rebel Without A Cause” came on TV. I wasn’t old enough to care about the movie, but I was most impressed with the “chicken” scene where Buzz’s sleeve gets caught in the car’s door handle and he plunges to his death.Several decades later, I am most impressed […]
No surprise that political cartoonists are commenting on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. There are roughly a kazillion panels at Daryl Cagle’s site if you want to sort through them. (And, yes, they are still there even if you don’t want to sort through them.)About half of them appear to have […]
My sons and I have talked football since they were old enough to talk about anything at all, but my younger and I found a new subject area the other day, and Drew Sheneman’s cartoon pretty much captures it.I love football. People who think it’s just a bunch of really big guys knocking hell out […]
For a little over a decade, I would go into high schools and spend the day lecturing on political cartoons. I’d begin by talking about the partisan press, how, a century or so ago, each town had two papers — Republican and Democratic — and they would launch totally one-sided, predictable attacks on their opponents, which was […]