“Long Past?” inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.“No. Your past.””Oh, &%^# that,” said Scrooge, and went back to bed.The End. Juxtaposition of the Day(Rex Morgan)(Between Friends)Today’s Juxtaposition gets top billing because it really fires up the Rant Generator and I’m going to have to sort the relevant from the visceral here.To start with, Rex’s sudden […]
Kal Kallaugher confronts a political taboo, and though he does it in the pages of the Economist of London, I haven’t heard very many people in the US criticize Israel as being obstructionist in this process either. There is, of course, the spectre of anyone who criticizes Israel being accused of anti-Semitism, which stems in part […]
No heavy lifting today. Tank McNamara on the topic of college sports and amateurism. I’m not sure where Bill Hinds is taking this, but it’s a worthwhile issue, particularly as we prepare for a round of (yawn) Winter Olympics.The Olympics once had an elitist, often racist, amateurism requirement that needed to go. But the combination […]
Kevin Kallaugher neatly explains what’s going on. It is a riff, of course, on one of the absolute classics of The Far Side, which was followed by a second take, both of which adorned the bulletin board in my kitchen until they were quite yellow and curled, or possibly until I moved, I forget which.And […]
So, if you go the Kevin Kallaugher page of the (online) Baltimore Sun, here’s what you’ll find: And no amount of clicking or other cyberfoolery will show you anything more complete or coherent, at least as of 6 a.m. this morning.Perhaps they’ll fix it, perhaps they won’t. The Old Man Remembers when, if a TV […]
Some days, it’s a struggle to find something. Other days, it’s a struggle to narrow it all down.I prefer the latter, but I’m not in a mood to narrow it all down, so let’s have a look at this day of cartoon plenty, in no particular order: Kevin Kallaugher’s latest is yet another cartoon about […]
Marian Kamensky bids farewell to the Iron Lady.The death of Margaret Thatcher on the same day as Annette Funicello suggests the aphorism with which Tolstoy began “Anna Karenina,” in that all beloved people are the same, but each despised person is despised in different ways.Neither death was particularly unexpected; both women were known to be […]
The death of Hugo Chavez has certainly divided cartoonists, as Chavez divided observers during his lifetime. Here, Lalo Alcaraz suggests that Chavez’s identity may stem from the prism through which he is being observed.A large number of cartoonists who have commented on his death picked up on his UN speech, which he began with a […]
Kevin Kallaugher with a pithy analysis of the discussions thus far. He’s got a point, but I’m not sure where we go with it, mostly because the “Where’s the meat?” questions remain largely at least uncovered if not unanswered.For instance, I’ve heard so many versions of “close the loopholes” and “eliminate deductions” that I’m not […]
Believe It Or Not!Pab Sungenis, of “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria,” created a gag about zombies that was both fresh and humorous!Believe It Or Not!In BC, Mason and Mick Mastroianni wrote a “Hunger Games” gag that actually demonstrated some basic familiarity with the story!Believe It Or Not!Kevin Kallaugher drew a cartoon about the presidential race […]