Mike Marland (Ind) asks the questions I’d also like an answer to.The least of them, I would say, is in the bottom left-hand corner: “Why are you so hateful, gullible and in many cases, so downright stupid?”It’s not an interesting question, because it’s about a factor we should have known about all along. The interesting […]
Tom Toles (WashPost) gives a warning about the scary times to come in the next two and a half weeks.Facing what appears to be total disaster, Dear Leader and his acolytes have thrown caution and taste to the winds in a desperate attempt to do something or other.It’s not clear what. Mike Thompson (USA Today) cites […]
We’ll start with John Cole‘s cartoon and a bit of my own gossip, which in this case I define as anecdotal observations that may or may not reflect a wider truth.I worked the Primary yesterday from 7 am to noon, and we didn’t have anyone come in who had voted by absentee ballot and wanted […]
Joy of Tech is pretty firmly on record as not respecting either Facebook or Twitter, but here they acknowledge not just the general scumminess but the addictive nature of unbridled social media.I’m admittedly on the record as recognizing my own need for such places to both collect material for my writing and to promote the […]
Loretta Lockhorn speaks wisdom, and, certainly, on a Monday morning, we can step back from current events for a bit.As long as we check back once in a while to see what’s going on.Every 10 minutes should be enough. When I used to visit high schools to talk about political cartoons, I’d show Nast’s obituary cartoon […]
Juxtaposition of the Day(Bob Gorrell)(Tom Toro, June 2012)And let me add that those who pretend to study history talk about the riots of 1968 in terms of the tumultuous demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention that summer.Which were not riots except in the sense of “police riots,” stirred up by Mayor Daley who explained it […]
Madam & Eve chimes in from South Africa with an opportunity to see ourselves as others see us.Well, we always wondered what would happen when Dear Leader had to face an actual crisis, and it’s surprising that it took three years.Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic — well, from us though not from […]
Ann Telnaes puts into graphic form something that’s been running around my mind, and one of the best things about political cartooning is how its boiling of complexity into a seemingly simple image can focus things.Trump has demanded two justices of the Supreme Court recuse themselves from any cases involving his administration because Sotomayor expressed […]
I’m thinking of doing an entire blog consisting of nothing but cartoons of the Wall Street bull statue wearing a surgical mask. At this stage, it’s still a coincidence, but time’s up, gang. If you would like to examine the coronavirus in more detail, I’d suggest you go to the Guardian and read the rest of […]
So the Primary is over and we’re back to being invisible.Someone will ask for our vote in November, but with only four electoral votes, that’s all they’ll do: Ask. The begging is now officially over.And I guess I’m not an influencer after all, because I read a couple of analyses of the vote that expressed […]
Posting this Joy of Tech is a bit of a cheat, given that they’ve posted a new cartoon since, but it states the situation so well that I’m giving myself permission to break my own rules.I have two elements of concern with Facebook.Privacy is one, though I continue to subscribe to the theory that the […]
Not to single out Benjamin Slyngstad in particular. He’s just one of a whole lot of cartoonists and late night hosts who have decided that Joe Biden should not be president because he said “Malarkey.”And, however he means it, what he says here is probably true.We may be reaching the “Al Gore is a Liar” […]
(Tom Toles)(Clay Jones)We’ll start out with our Juxtaposition of the Day, taking on Zuckerberg’s Theory, which is that you have to take the money because you can’t figure out whether the source is legitimate or not.Which is a substantial part of the freedom that sites like Facebook enjoy: The theory is that they are simply […]
Adam Zyglis offers a good jumping off place this morning, since, from here, we can go in a couple of different directions.The first is, of course, the arrogance of wealth combined with a sociopathic lack of empathy, and we don’t have to go back to Marie Antoinette to find a parallel. Though, to be fair, he’s […]
Adam@Home provides an opportunity for me to complain about something relatively trivial and segue into something more substantive that I’ve been reluctant to bitch about.Rob Harrell and I could quarrel about what the ends of an untied bow tie look like, but floppy is floppy. On the other hand, I think he’d agree that the […]