The corporate owners of the alternative paper Creative Loafing Tampa fired Bob Whitmore, the local political cartoonist, over what a couple saw as an antisemitic cartoon he drew and the paper published.From WNFM-FM radio: A political cartoonist at Creative Loafing is out of a job because of criticisms the paper got after it published his […]
Ohman’s exaggerating, at least for the moment. There’s no telling how deep into the bag of distractions Dear Leader is willing to reach if this Epstein business doesn’t go away, and, after all, he did send a couple of nuclear subs to lurk off Russia’s coast. The first question is whether these “nuclear” subs are […]
“Watch your step,” says the soldier as he and a medic lead a hostage over a mound of corpses labeled “Over 40,000 Palestinians killed…” The caption reads, “Some Israeli Hostages Are Home After Years of Merciless War.” This cartoon by Jeff Danzinger (Rutland Herald, 1/20/25) was selected by editorial page editor Tony Doris to run […]
Spanish cartoonist Christian Mirra (Cartoon Movement) poses a problem: In English, the Sixth Commandment is normally translated as “Thou shalt not kill,” but he uses the term “murder.” Is it an intentional distinction or a matter of someone for whom English is a second language?When I went to doublecheck which commandment that was, I stumbled […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run.And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve wrought […]
Palestinian artist/cartoonist Mahasen al-Khateeb died in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia on October 18. She was 32.Mahasen was a popular digital illustrator, storyboard artist, and character designer for domestic and international clients. Two weeks before the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, she had opened a private studio. During the Israeli response, she lost the […]
Welcome to Montreal, home of Westmount High, alma mater of Kamala Harris, who, as Terry Mosher (Aislin) reminded us, lived here for a few years when her mother was a professor at McGill.There will be a lot of graphics today, so the prose will be sparse, and note that a lot was shot at an […]
A timely message from Mike Luckovich, who as I write this is likely hunkered down in Georgia as Helene passes over. There’s probably some kind of wisecrack available about how, if Trump is elected, he’ll protect us by diverting hurricanes with his magic Sharpie, but the more serious point is that NOAA was born out […]
Ann Telnaes combines her anguish over the crackdown on women’s rights under the reconstituted Afghan government with her fury over the assault on women’s rights and dignity by JD Vance and his misogynistic followers.Don’t say “It can’t happen here,” because it’s already happening here with the overturning of Roe v Wade, cutbacks to freedom of […]
Mannequin on the Moon (AMS) suggests a line that some major newspapers could adopt for the benefit of readers. I find it annoying when they list a headline on their opinion page that promises a challenging, interesting opinion, but doesn’t include the byline, so that you click on it and discover that, indeed, it’s from […]
Pat Byrnes criticizes the press with an imaginary Page One, accusing them of seeking to find faults with the Harris/Walz ticket while giving Trump a free ride. It’s a troubling accusation, because he seems to run afoul of Hanlon’s Razor, which states “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”That, in turn, […]
We’ll start with something that hardly counts in the Grand Scheme of Things, except that accuracy does matter, even when good intentions only pave the road to Heck, not Hell.Clay Jones has a point to make in observing that Trump can no longer shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote because […]
Bob Englehart provides a head-scratcher. There’s nothing wrong with contrasting two presidents, or two speeches, but you have to do it in a way that clearly approves of one and disapproves of the other.Roosevelt used the phrase, which he said was a West African proverb, more than once, starting with a letter written as governor […]
Rob Rogers (Tinyview) sets up today’s topic: If nobody knows that it happened, did it? And, if it didn’t happen, how could it matter?That fourth panel has gone from horror to comic relief as Noem attempts to move forward while backpedaling furiously. She’s gone from being proud of shooting a puppy, a goat and two […]
It’s always nice, though not always possible, to begin with an overview of what is about to come. Jen Sorensen provides a solid abstract of today’s topic. Certainly, the continuing deaths in Gaza are a major crisis, for the Gazans obviously, but also for the Israelis. The BBC reports tens of thousands of Israelis in […]