There are a lot of cartoons about climate-change deniers around at the moment, but I’m more pleased to see Keith Knight go after the race-problem deniers, and do it in a way that is pointed and unambiguous, but also funny.Not everyone can pull that combination off.There was a story on an NPR blog the other […]
(Keith Knight) (Darrin Bell)Okay, gang, this isn’t about sports, though that happens to have been the venue, so, if you’re not a sports fan, stick with me.It’s about the difference between tee-heeing over some kinds of misbehavior while going apoplectic over something far more minor. Or, shall we say, the “shades of difference” involved.Here’s what […]
Nothing smells like vict’ry more than napalm in the morningChasing Charlie from his lair so very far away The Chuckle Bros got a chuckle with this, mostly in light of the futile caption. I think they seriously underestimate Broadway’s hunger for overproduced, overpriced, unlikely adaptations.In any case, their timing is excellent, given that Spiderman just closed […]
Thankyouthankyouthankyou Keith Knight for today’s Knight Life. I was afraid it was just me.I like the ACLU. But a couple of years ago, they offered a bumpersticker that said something about upholding and defending the Constitution in return for a donation, and, since I feel strongly about the Constitution and the donation was simply a cover […]
Starting, for a change, with the Juxtaposition of the Day: (The New Adventures of Queen Victoria) (Blondie)Normally, I save the Juxtaposition of the Day for the end, sort of a “Moment of Zen” thing (don’t worry, you’ll get one), but these two strips tie into my recent theme of unscrupulous efforts to capitalize on people’s […]
Keith Knight addresses the plight of the Oppressed White Man, deprived of his civil rights by, well, the rise of civil rights over the past half-century.Which is to say most of the whiners weren’t even born when their right to be ignorant was revoked.Or at least watered-down by being shared. Today, thanks to the progress […]
I remember, back in the days when I believed good work would find a spot, and when I believed I knew how to define good work, and when I believed that the world needed one more introspective novel about college, being particularly incensed when a genuinely-bad-by-any-measure college novel was published not only to some fanfare […]
Mike Luckovich on the rodeo clown incident. Everyone is officially horrified, and then a (Republican) Texas politician invites the man who insulted the President of the United States down to Texas to do it again. There is a way of responding that quells this stuff, and a way that winks, and either the GOP has some […]
The river of Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman cartoons should begin flooding in any time now, but my expectations are very low and I’m not going to wait to tackle the topic.Besides, I like Daryl Cagle’s take: It’s not only simple and clean, but doesn’t over-reach. Nice piece of wordplay, too.I doubt anyone’s going to top it […]
Keith Knight on young people and the prison industry.I’ll leave the racial aspects of things in his hands, except to remember that it was Richard Pryor who said of the legal system: “You go down there looking for justice; that’s what you find: Just us.”I certainly agree that we bust kids for stuff we used to […]
In the current (th)Ink, Keith Knight lobs a stinkbomb at a deserving target. I keep seeing stories tagged to HuffPo in my Facebook feed, but, honestly, it’s like one of those tired old TV shows that they keep renewing and, when you see it listed on your guide, your response has long since gone from […]
In today’s Knight Life, Keith Knight seems poised to leap into an unnecessary future.There are any number of reasons to resist the siren song of the new, and probably as many to embrace it. But the “dead trees” mantra needs to stop being a mantra and become, instead, a discussion.Beginning with a different phrase that […]
Drew Sheneman with a commentary that matters, but seems a generation or so too late. That teacher, and the parents of those kids, grew up with corporations already well-entrenched in the classrooms. Sheneman himself, who graduated from college in 1998, might have seen the tentacles stretching in, if he’d been in the right school district […]
The Knight Life, with a Biblical passage that makes the whole argument worthwhile.Fact is, the comparison is not all that far fetched. Funny, yes, but not far fetched.Back when I was doing the “Lookback” feature at the paper where I worked, the issue of registering cars came up in the 75 Years Ago files, and […]
Lio rarely fails to please, and often manages to delight.And, for those with limited English skills, it’s also available in Spanish!When Mark Tatulli debuted the strip in 2006, it got a lot of “adds” (that is, newspaper clients), but sparked some discussion within the biz about how he was going to be able to keep […]