It’s a good day to round up a few topics that have been waiting for a good day to be rounded up. BTW, some people solve this rebus immediately while others get hung up trying to be too specific about the image in the middle. Don’t overthink it.Alcaraz declines to knuckle under. It would be […]
The difference in our nation doesn’t get much starker than this, to which someone might say “Yeah, but how many people even remember Kennedy’s inauguration?”It’s a fair question. I turned 10 a week after he was inaugurated, so I remember him, but not in a political context. I remember that he was president and that […]
“Don’t call me Shirley” is a funny line, but our current situation is far from it. Still, it’s an irresistible response when, day after day, we keep saying “Surely you can’t be serious.”He is serious. And it’s okay to call him “Shirley” because it’s no more ludicrous than calling him “Mr. President.” What began as […]
Here’s the solid base on which to build what is to come: The President is desperately tossing out distractions to keep his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein from coming out. Some of the distractions are things he wanted to do anyway, but much of it is like the chaff bombers used to toss out during WWII […]
Back in the days when I really did a “Comic Strip of the Day,” and only needed one, I had a policy that I would only hold daily strips for 24 hours but could hold a Sunday for six days, following the Audit Bureau of Circulation rules that said a daily paper is “dead” the […]
Sorensen reframes matters in current, rather than traditional, terms, and it’s hard to disagree with her suggestion that we stop pretending things are the same as they’ve always been. It seems time to, as Howard Cosell put it, “Tell it like it is.”It’s hard to avoid knowing that things have changed, and if for some […]
Margulies starts the ball rolling with an observation which you should hold in mind throughout the rest of what is to come. First of all, he’s right. Trump reminds me of a wisecrack directed at Jesse Jackson some years ago by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young: “Jesse’s never run anything but his mouth.”Ditto, the difference being […]
Mamet satirizes a growing sense that certain politicians have no idea of how real life works. It’s funny that Mamet can’t tell a credit card from a library card, but not so funny that the president of the United States thinks you have to show identification to purchase groceries. And he specified photo ID, so […]
This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]
Luckovich uses that word, and I do think it means what he thinks it means.But there are two reasons to quibble with Luckovich’s cartoon, the first being that the Founders had, at best, a relatively select bloc of voters in mind. Voters weren’t specifically “elite” and it’s flat out wrong to suggest that they were […]
As Herbert suggests, we’ve got a full plate, in keeping with Steve Bannon’s advice to flood the zone with shit so that the opposition has no time to deal with any of it. As Dan Perkins (“Tom Tomorrow”) told the Irish Times in Trump’s first administration,[It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d like a glass […]
Jimmy Margulies (KFS) isn’t the only commentator who appears trapped in a mutual admiration society, but his donkey’s remark makes a perfect starting point, because I would dispute it.While the Chattering Classes echo outrage over the pardon, if you look at the comments, on stories, on columns, and on cartoons where comments are permitted, you’ll […]
Xitter has been kicked out of Brazil, as Joy of Tech notes without mourning. It seems Musk got in a quarrel with them over his right to spread misinformation, and so they blocked reception of his platform, though the NYTimes also reports that he’s encouraging people there to log on via Starlink, which could get […]
There’s been a lot of chatter down in the Antipodes about the high cost of housing, and so it makes sense that Matt Golding would go international with this example of an American couple who has found a place to live rent-free. It might take you a moment to examine where they’re living to get […]
David Cohen comments on Louisiana’s “police buffer law,” which went into effect this month and prohibits reporters or others at the scene of an incident being within 25 feet of an officer who has ordered them back. This seems like a solution in search of a problem, unless the problem you’re attempting to solve is […]