(Kevin Kallaugher) (Matt Wuerker – Politico)The State of the Union speech was, indeed, a welcome relief from years past. It began on the East Coast well after the bedtime of anyone who has to be up by 4 am, but I decided to catch the first few minutes, hit record and watch the rest in the […]
Over in the Economist, Kal Kallaugher wonders if Europe will ever trust us again, given that she’s got reasons not to.I’m leading with it because yesterday I promised to look into the missile strike against a launch base in Syria, admitting that, given my feelings about our having abandoned our Kurdish allies, I had some […]
Today’s Pardon My Planet (KFS) provides a coincidental coda to the impeachment, because, come on now, what did you expect?I’m actually more optimistic now than I was at 24, when I was sure, along with a whole lot of other people, that Nixon would escape the revelations of Watergate.In fact, I wrote a parody of […]
I noted the other day that the opening of the impeachment trial, and particularly the lackluster nature of Trump’s defense, didn’t seem to spark much fury in Ann Telnaes (WashPo)‘s trial coverage.But it sure didn’t stay that way, and her growing portfolio is fine stuff indeed.We’ll see her again, because there’s a second critical topic […]
I always enjoy Agnes (Creators), but never more than today, when she is slogging through the snow and kvetching over a month that even Gilbert & Sullivan dismissed as “beastly.”Which is a good time to point out that Groundhog Day is ridiculous because it’s far too dependent on location, and was originally a badger in […]
Editor’s Note: I brought “My Cousin Vinny” into the conversation two weeks before Rudy did, and hardly in the same context:Poor Fred Gwynne was a decent judge stuck between nitwits from both sides of the cultural divide, with (spoiler alert!) the outcome decided by a blue-collar city girl who knew an awful lot about things […]
So apparently Trump is bookending Photoshopped pictures of an inaugural crowd that never showed up with Photoshopped pictures of a million protesters who likewise and ain’t that appropriate and while it doesn’t quite close out the fiasco, it’s a good reason to stop obsessing and have some fun.Not that this precludes political cartoons. It just […]
I saw Jeff Stahler (AMS)‘s cartoon before I saw reports of the terrorist assault on the Biden campaign bus in Texas, which was cheered by Dear Leader.Before I caught that context, I thought that, while it was a little strong, I agreed that I’m sick and tired of rightwingers conflating patriotism and the flag with […]
Perhaps the best way to lead off this topic is to direct you to Clay Jones’ site, where he shares various sketches and ponders aloud how to handle the President’s Covid diagnosis. I don’t particularly care for the somewhat celebratory cartoon he eventually came up with, but he explains his feelings in greater depth in the […]
A lady once asked him how he came to define ‘pastern’, the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, “Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.” — Boswell’s “Life of Samuel Johnson”Sometimes the best defense is no defense at all, but for an arrogant egotist like Johnson to […]
I’ll confess (A) I didn’t stay up for the RNC, it being hard enough to get up at 4 AM to get this blog together and (B) I certainly saw more than enough clips this morning of Don Jr’s girlfriend screaming.And I saw that Herschel Walker endorsed the fellow who, lest we forget, should also […]
It would be too easy to say “The jokes tell themselves,” but, yes, Kayleigh MagaNinny really did explain to reporters yesterday that Dear Leader would wait until after the election results were in before deciding whether to accept them as valid.Jokes are funny, and this isn’t, but, assuming you share my love of gallows humor, […]
There used to be a thing floating around the Internet about how no two nations that had McDonalds had ever gone to war. A more serious observation was that China had such major holdings in the American bond market that, if they ever cashed out or called them in, our economy would fall to pieces.Kal […]
Kal Kallaugher asks a depressing question, but I’m not sure he hasn’t set up a false premise.That is, while I will accept that trying to sell smoothies made from those repulsive ingredients would be hard, I also believe that the health claims of for-real smoothies are greatly overstated.A tall glass of blended fruit contains a […]
Kal Kallaugher captures the current situation, in which Dear Leader feigns bravery by boldly confronting a strawman to the applause of his followers.It does little good to argue whether his accusations are right or wrong or if they make any sense at all, because we’ve shot past the phase where Big Lies were challengeable.Now we’re […]